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
Airport (1970)
as Mrs. Schultz
The Women (1939)
as Pat
Unconquered (1947)
as Diana
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
as Alida Anderson
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
as Estelle Hohengarten
Another Thin Man (1939)
as Lois MacFay
The Last Command (1955)
as Mrs. Dickinson
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Madame X (1966)
as Mimsy
The Naked Kiss (1964)
as Candy
Back Street (1961)
as Janey nee Smith
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
as Connie Beach
Mexican Hayride (1948)
as Mary / Montana
Test Pilot (1938)
as Sarah
The Big Store (1941)
as Joan Sutton
Rosalie (1937)
as Mary Callahan
Black Zoo (1963)
as Jenny Brooks
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
as Virginia Grey
Idaho (1943)
as Terry
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
as Elsie Desmond
Crime of Passion (1956)
as Sara Alidas
Flirtation Walk (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Palmy Days (1931)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Unknown Island (1948)
as Carole Lane
Fighting Lawman (1953)
as Raquel Jackson
The Threat (1949)
as Carol
From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
as Self
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Pearl
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Roseanne Fraden
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
as Camille Quinlaw
The Shopworn Angel (1938)
as Chorus Girl #1
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
as 'Fran' Post
Blonde Inspiration (1941)
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
Our Relations (1936)
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
The Romance of Celluloid (1937)
as Self
Portrait in Black (1960)
as Miss Lee
Secrets (1933)
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
Highway 301 (1950)
as Mary Simms
Bad Guy (1937)
as Kitty Ryan
The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Dorothy Buracker
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
as Irene Talbot
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
as Miss Jenks
Dames (1934)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
as Rita Dane
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
as Edna Van Dyke
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938)
as June
Pacific Paradise (1937)
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Shirley Laughlin
A Perilous Journey (1953)
as Abby
Hullabaloo (1940)
as Laura Merriweather
Grand Central Murder (1942)
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Susan Thorson
The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975)
as Landlady
The Canary Comes Across (1938)
as Ann Clayton
Target Earth (1954)
as Vicki Harris
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
as Consuela MacNish
Dramatic School (1938)
as Simone
House of Horrors (1946)
as Joan Medford
Leather Gloves (1948)
as Jane Gilbert
Rosie! (1967)
as Mrs. Peters
Slaughter Trail (1951)
as Lorabelle Larkin
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as Lisbeth Flood
The Captain is a Lady (1940)
as Mary Peabody
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
as Ann Loring
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Hazel Boyd
So This Is New York (1948)
as Ella Finch
Accused of Murder (1956)
as Sandra Lamoreaux
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938)
as Virginia Mason
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
as Self - Actress
Keeping Company (1940)
as Anastasia Atherton
Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
as Madge
Men in Her Diary (1945)
as Diana Lee
Washington Melodrama (1941)
as Teddy Carlyle
Wyoming (1947)
as Lila Regan
Miraculous Journey (1948)
as Patricia
Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
as Jane Wilson
Captain Scarface (1953)
as Elsa
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Selma Willis
The Great Gatsby (1958)
as Myrtle Wilson
Smooth as Silk (1946)
as Paula Marlowe
Jungle Jim (1948)
as Dr. Hilary Parker
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1950)
as Janet Smedley Adams
The Restless Years (1958)
as Miss Robson
Grissly's Millions (1945)
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
as Jennifer Benton
Three Desperate Men (1951)
as Laura Brock
The Forty-Niners (1954)
as Stella Walker
Old Hutch (1936)
as Ethel
Swamp Fire (1946)
as Janet Hilton
Ladies in Distress (1938)
as Sally
The Golden Fleecing (1940)
as Lila Hanley
Secret Valley (1937)
as Joan Carlo
Desert Pursuit (1952)
as Mary Smith
Strangers in the Night (1944)
as Dr. Leslie Ross
Tish (1942)
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
Blonde Ransom (1945)
as Vicki Morrison
Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
as Patricia Casey
Heart to Heart (1928)
as Hazel Boyd
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Mary Jones
Secrets of the Underground (1942)
as Terry Parker
The Michigan Kid (1928)
as Rose, as a child
Glamour Girl (1948)
as Lorraine Royle