Virginia Grey
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Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) as Little Eva. She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies in order to finish her education. Grey returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and extra work, but she eventually signed a contract with MGM and appeared in such movies as Another Thin Man, Hullabaloo and The Big Store. She played Consuela McNish in The Hardys Ride High (1939) with Mickey Rooney. She left MGM in 1942, and signed with several different studios over the years, working steadily. During the 1950s and 1960s, producer Ross Hunter frequently included Grey in his popular soap melodramas, such as All That Heaven Allows, Back Street and Madame X. She had an on again/off again relationship with Clark Gable in the 1940s. After his wife Carole Lombard died and he returned from military service, Clark and Virginia were often seen at restaurants and nightclubs together. Many, including Virginia herself, expected him to marry her. The tabloids were all expecting the wedding announcement. It was a great surprise when he hastily married Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949. Virginia was heartbroken. They divorced in 1952, but much to Virginia's dismay their brief romance was never rekindled. Her friends say that her hoping and waiting for Clark was the reason she never married. She was a regular on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on Playhouse 90, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Your Show of Shows, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, Burke's Law, The Virginian, Peter Gunn and many others. She was portrayed by Anna Torv in the HBO Mini-series The Pacific. Description above from the Wikipedia article Virginia Grey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Fighting Lawman (1953)
as Raquel Jackson
Airport (1970)
as Mrs. Schultz
Unconquered (1947)
as Diana
The Women (1939)
as Pat
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
as Alida Anderson
Back Street (1961)
as Janey nee Smith
The Naked Kiss (1964)
as Candy
Our Relations (1936)
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Roseanne Fraden
The Big Store (1941)
as Joan Sutton
Test Pilot (1938)
as Sarah
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
as Estelle Hohengarten
Another Thin Man (1939)
as Lois MacFay
Madame X (1966)
as Mimsy
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
as Connie Beach
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Virginia Grey
The Last Command (1955)
as Mrs. Dickinson
Portrait in Black (1960)
as Miss Lee
Rosalie (1937)
as Mary Callahan
Crime of Passion (1956)
as Sara Alidas
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
as Rita Dane
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Camille Quinlaw
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Shirley Laughlin
Blonde Inspiration (1941)
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
as Elsie Desmond
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Pearl
Highway 301 (1950)
as Mary Simms
Pacific Paradise (1937)
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
Unknown Island (1948)
as Carole Lane
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
as Self - Actress
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
as Irene Talbot
So This Is New York (1948)
as Ella Finch
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Dorothy Buracker
Men in Her Diary (1945)
as Diana Lee
Palmy Days (1931)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Susan Thorson
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
as Lila Hanley
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Consuela MacNish
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as Lisbeth Flood
Mexican Hayride (1948)
as Mary / Montana
Grissly's Millions (1945)
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Chorus Girl #1
Black Zoo (1963)
as Jenny Brooks
Target Earth (1954)
as Vicki Harris
The Restless Years (1958)
as Miss Robson
Accused of Murder (1956)
as Sandra Lamoreaux
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)
as Landlady
Flirtation Walk (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
Grand Central Murder (1942)
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
House of Horrors (1946)
as Joan Medford
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
as 'Fran' Post
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
Dames (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
as Miss Jenks
The Green Fog (2018)
Actor
The Forty-Niners (1954)
as Stella Walker
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
Dramatic School (1938)
as Simone
Idaho (1943)
as Terry
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
as Madge
The Great Gatsby (1958)
as Myrtle Wilson
Desert Pursuit (1952)
as Mary Smith
Washington Melodrama (1941)
as Teddy Carlyle
Ladies in Distress (1938)
as Sally
Slaughter Trail (1951)
as Lorabelle Larkin
Captain Scarface (1953)
as Elsa
The Threat (1949)
as Carol
Swamp Fire (1946)
as Janet Hilton
Rosie! (1967)
as Mrs. Peters
Hullabaloo (1940)
as Laura Merriweather
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Selma Willis
Bad Guy (1937)
as Kitty Ryan
Secret Valley (1937)
as Joan Carlo
Three Desperate Men (1951)
as Laura Brock
Wyoming (1947)
as Lila Regan
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Strangers in the Night (1944)
as Dr. Leslie Ross
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
as Edna Van Dyke
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
as Ann Loring
Old Hutch (1936)
as Ethel
Keeping Company (1940)
as Anastasia Atherton
Blonde Ransom (1945)
as Vicki Morrison
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
as Patricia Casey
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950)
as Janet Smedley Adams
Glamour Girl (1948)
as Lorraine Royle
Miraculous Journey (1948)
as Patricia
Leather Gloves (1948)
as Jane Gilbert
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Hazel Boyd
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
as Jennifer Benton
A Perilous Journey (1953)
as Abby
The Michigan Kid (1928)
as Rose, as a child
Jungle Jim (1948)
as Dr. Hilary Parker
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
as Jane Wilson
The Canary Comes Across (1938)
as Ann Clayton
The Captain is a Lady (1940)
as Mary Peabody
Smooth as Silk (1946)
as Paula Marlowe
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Hazel Boyd
Tish (1942)
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
Secrets of the Underground (1942)
as Terry Parker
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938)
as Virginia Mason
Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938)
as June
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Mary Jones