Virginia Bruce
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Bruce (September 29, 1910 – February 24, 1982) was an American actress and singer. Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928, she moved with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California, Los Angeles when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That Up?. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by America's Sweetheart in 1931. She returned to Hollywood in 1932, where on August 10, 1932, she married John Gilbert, her co-star in the film Downstairs. She retired briefly after the birth of their daughter Susan Ann Gilbert. The couple divorced in 1934, and Virginia returned to a hectic schedule of film appearances. Gilbert died two years later in 1936. Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the film Born to Dance and co-starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical The Great Ziegfeld. One of her final film appearances was in Strangers When We Meet. In 1949, Bruce starred in a daily 30-minute radio drama. Make Believe Town was an afternoon program on CBS. Bruce married her second husband, film director J. Walter Ruben, in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year. Together they had a son named Christopher (b. 1941), before Ruben's death in 1942. In 1946, Bruce married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952 before divorcing again in 1964. Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 71.
Known for
Credits
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
as Audrey Dane
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
as Jenny
The Invisible Woman (1940)
as Kitty Carroll
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
as Joan Marshall
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Mrs. Wagner
Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)
as Connie Mathers
The Love Parade (1929)
as Lady-in-Waiting
The Murder Man (1935)
as Mary Shannon
Society Doctor (1935)
as Madge
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
Born to Dance (1936)
as Lucy James
Paramount on Parade (1930)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Society Lawyer (1939)
as Pat Abbott
Hired Wife (1940)
as Phyllis Walden
Complicated Women (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Land of Liberty (1939)
as (archive footage)
Action in Arabia (1944)
as Yvonne
Pointed Heels (1929)
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
as Susie O'Neill
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
as Loretta Douglas
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
as Joan Reed
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
as Self (uncredited)
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
as Self
Times Square Lady (1935)
as Toni Bradley
There Goes My Heart (1938)
as Joan Butterfield
Winner Take All (1932)
as Joan Gibson
The River of Romance (1929)
as Southern Belle
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
as Elizabeth Flagg
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Frances Blake
The Garden Murder Case (1936)
as Zalia Graem
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as Lorraine de Grissac
Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)
as Roberta Baxter
There's That Woman Again (1938)
as Sally Reardon
Whoopee! (1930)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Young Eagles (1930)
as Florence Welford
Jane Eyre (1934)
as Jane Eyre
The Miracle Man (1932)
as Margaret Thornton
Flight Angels (1940)
as Mary Norvell
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
as Jenny Lind
Brazil (1944)
as Nicky Henderson
Woman Trap (1929)
as Nurse
Kongo (1932)
as Ann
Women of Glamour (1937)
as Gloria Hudson
Downstairs (1932)
as Anna
State Department: File 649 (1949)
as Marge
Here Comes the Band (1935)
as Margaret
Between Two Women (1937)
as Patricia Sloan
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
as Nurse Stephens
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Lynn Conway
When Love Is Young (1937)
as Wanda Werner
Sky Bride (1932)
as Ruth Dunning
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Maris Kent
A Dream Comes True (1935)
as Herself (uncredited)
The Plague (1954)
as Nurse
Raffles (1930)
as Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
Only the Brave (1930)
as Elizabeth
Dangerous Corner (1934)
as Ann Beale
Follow Thru (1930)
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Slightly Scarlet (1930)
as Enid Corbett
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
as Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
Metropolitan (1935)
as Anne Merrill
Escapade (1935)
as Gerta
Let Freedom Ring (1939)
as Maggie Adams
Shadow of Doubt (1935)
as Trenna
The Social Lion (1930)
as Society Girl
Lilies of the Field (1930)
as Doris
The Reluctant Bride (1955)
as Laura Weeks
Let 'em Have It (1935)
as Eleanor Spencer
Let's Go Native (1930)
as Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Fugitives (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
Adventure in Washington (1941)
as Jane Scott
Hard to Get (1929)
as Young Woman (uncredited)
Safety in Numbers (1930)
as Alma McGregor