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Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey

Birthday: 1917-03-22 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

as    Self - Actress

1966
Madame X

as    Mimsy

1964
The Naked Kiss

as    Candy

1963
Black Zoo

as    Jenny Brooks

1961
Bachelor in Paradise

as    Camille Quinlaw

1961
Tammy Tell Me True

as    Miss Jenks

1960
Portrait in Black

as    Miss Lee

1959
No Name on the Bullet

as    Roseanne Fraden

1957
Crime of Passion

as    Sara

1956
Accused of Murder

as    Sandra Lamoreaux

1955
All That Heaven Allows

as    Alida Anderson

1955
The Eternal Sea

as    Dorothy Buracker

1955
The Rose Tattoo

as    Estelle Hohengarten

1955
The Last Command

as    Mrs. Dickinson

1954
The Forty-Niners

as    Stella Walker

1954
Target Earth

as    Vicki Harris

1953
A Perilous Journey

as    Abby

1953
Captain Scarface

as    Elsa

1953
Fighting Lawman

as    Raquel Jackson

1951
Bullfighter and the Lady

as    Lisbeth Flood

1951
Slaughter Trail

as    Lorabelle Larkin

1950
Highway 301

as    Mary Simms

1949
The Threat

as    Carol

1948
Unknown Island

as    Carole Lane

1946
Swamp Fire

as    Janet Hilton

1946
House of Horrors

as    Joan Medford

1946
Smooth as Silk

as    Paula Marlowe

1945
Grissly's Millions

as    Katherine Palmor Bentley

1945
Flame of Barbary Coast

as    Rita Dane