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Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004)[1] was an American actress who appeared in over 100 films and a number of radio and television shows from the 1930s to the early 1980s.[2]

Virginia Grey
Grey in 1941
Born	(1917-03-22)March 22, 1917 Edendale, California, U.S.
Died	July 31, 2004(2004-07-31) (aged 87) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1927–1977

Biography

Grey was born on March 22, 1917, in Edendale, California, the youngest of three daughters of Florence Anna Grey (née Pauly; 1890—1930) and director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was movie star Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of 10 in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) as Little Eva. She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies for three years to finish her education.[1]

Grey gave up on training to be a nurse and returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and work as an extra. She eventually signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and appeared in several films, including The Hardys Ride High (1939) with Mickey Rooney, Another Thin Man (1939) with William Powell, Hullabaloo (1940), and The Big Store (1941) with the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico).[1]

She left MGM in 1942, and worked steadily for several studios over subsequent years. 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.[1]

Grey had an on again/off again relationship with Clark Gable in the 1940s. After Gable's wife Carole Lombard died and he returned from military service, Gable and Grey were often seen at restaurants and nightclubs. Many, including Virginia herself, expected Gable to marry her, and tabloids often speculated on a wedding announcement. It was a great surprise when Gable hastily married Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949, leaving Grey heartbroken. Gable divorced Ashley in 1952; however, he never rekindled his romance with Grey, and Grey's friends say that her hoping and waiting for Gable was the reason she never married.[3]

Grey was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She said: "I am a Mormon. Dad was, and I was, raised in that religion and during the '30s and '40s, I strayed and got into other things. I drank, I smoked, and did things totally opposite, not even thinking of what I had known during childhood. I remember in 1958, two elders came to my door and I began to think about my upbringing and what I learned, and then I started to meditate on that and I found solace once again and realized what I had been neglecting, if not forgetting, all those years when I was out of circulation. I returned to my Mormon roots around Christmastime that year and became very active in the church again. I'm glad those young men dropped in and reminded me about what I'd been missing because if not, I would've missed out on what the true 'big picture' is."[4]

In 1951, Grey portrayed Blanche Bickerson on the syndicated comedy TV series The Bickersons.[5] She was a regular on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on Playhouse 90, U.S. Marshal, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Your Show of Shows, Red Skelton, Wagon Train ("The Kate Parker Story", "The Major Adams Story"), Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, Burke's Law, The Virginian, Peter Gunn, Ironside and many others.[1]

Grey died on July 31, 2004, age 87, in Woodland Hills, California, at The Motion Picture Home where she was a resident.[6] She was cremated, and her ashes scattered at sea on August 6, 2004, off the Los Angeles coast.[6]

She was portrayed by Anna Torv in the HBO mini-series The Pacific.[1]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
1927	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Eva	Harry A. Pollard
1928	The Michigan Kid	a child	Irvin Willat
1928	Heart to Heart	Hazel Boyd	William Beaudine
1928	Jazz Mad		F. Harmon Weight
1931	Misbehaving Ladies	Hazel Boyd	William Beaudine
1931	Palmy Days	Goldwyn Girl	A. Edward Sutherland	uncredited
1933	Secrets	a Child	Frank Borzage	uncredited
1934	Dames	Chorus Girl	Busby Berkeley	uncredited
1934	The St. Louis Kid	Second Girl	Ray Enright	scenes deleted
1934	The Firebird	Autograph Seeker	William Dieterle	uncredited
1935	Gold Diggers of 1935	Chorus Girl	Busby Berkeley	uncredited
1935	Don't Bet on Blondes	Girl with Henry	Robert Florey	uncredited
1935	She Gets Her Man	Club Woman	William Nigh	uncredited
1936	The Great Ziegfeld	Ziegfeld Girl	Robert Z. Leonard	uncredited
1936	Old Hutch	Pirate's Club Customer	J. Walter Ruben	uncredited
1936	Our Relations	Ethel, Girl with Dave in Drugstore	Harry Lachman
1937	Secret Valley	Joan Carlo	Howard Bretherton
1937	Bad Guy	Kitty	Edward L. Cahn
1937	Rosalie	Mary Callahan	W. S. Van Dyke
1938	The Canary Comes Across	Ann Clayton		short
1938	Test Pilot	Sarah	Victor Fleming
1938	Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue	Virginia Mason		short
1938	Snow Gets in Your Eyes	June		short
1938	Ladies in Distress	Sally	Gus Meins
1938	The Shopworn Angel	Chorus Girl #1	H.C. Potter	uncredited
1938	Rich Man, Poor Girl	Miss Selma Willis	Reinhold Schünzel
1938	Youth Takes a Fling	Madge	Archie Mayo
1938	Dramatic School	Simone	Robert B. Sinclair
1939	Idiot's Delight	Shirley Laughlin	Clarence Brown
1939	Broadway Serenade	Pearl	Robert Z. Leonard
1939	The Hardys Ride High	Consuela MacNish
1939	The Women	Pat	George Cukor
1939	Thunder Afloat	Susan Thorson	George B. Seitz
1939	Another Thin Man	Lois MacFay	W. S. Van Dyke
1940	Three Cheers for the Irish	Patricia Casey	Lloyd Bacon
1940	The Captain Is a Lady	Mary Peabody	Robert B. Sinclair
1940	The Golden Fleecing	Lila Hanley	Leslie Fenton
1940	Hullabaloo	Laura Merriweather
1940	Keeping Company	Anastasia Atherton	S. Sylvan Simon
1941	Blonde Inspiration	Margie Blake	Busby Berkeley
1941	Washington Melodrama	Teddy Carlyle	S. Sylvan Simon
1941	The Big Store	Joan Sutton	Charles Reisner
1941	Whistling in the Dark	'Fran' Post	S. Sylvan Simon
1942	Mr. and Mrs. North	Jane Wilson	Robert B. Sinclair
1942	Tarzan's New York Adventure	Connie Beach	Richard Thorpe
1942	Grand Central Murder	Sue Custer	S. Sylvan Simon
1942	Bells of Capistrano	Jennifer Benton	William Morgan
1942	Tish	Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands	S. Sylvan Simon
1942	Secrets of the Underground	Terry Parker	William Morgan
1943	Idaho	Terry Grey	Joseph Kane
1943	Stage Door Canteen	Virginia Grey	Frank Borzage
1943	Sweet Rosie O'Grady	Edna Van Dyke	Irving Cummings
1944	Strangers in the Night	Dr. Leslie Ross	Anthony Mann
1945	Grissly's Millions	Katherine Palmor Bentley	John English
1945	Blonde Ransom	Vicki Morrison	William Beaudine
1945	Flame of Barbary Coast	Rita Dane	Joseph Kane
1945	Men in Her Diary	Diana Lee	Charles Barton
1946	Smooth as Silk	Paula Marlowe	Charles Barton
1946	House of Horrors	Joan Medford	Jean Yarbrough
1946	Swamp Fire	Janet Hilton	William H. Pine
1947	Wyoming	Lila Regan	Joseph Kane
1947	Unconquered	Diana	Cecil B. DeMille
1948	Glamour Girl	Lorraine Royle	Arthur Dreifuss
1948	Who Killed Doc Robbin	Ann Loring	Bernard Carr
1948	So This Is New York	Ella Goff Finch	Richard Fleischer
1948	Miraculous Journey	Patricia	Sam Newfield (as Peter Stewart)
1948	Unknown Island	Carole Lane	Jack Bernhard
1948	Leather Gloves	Jane Gilbert	William Asher
1948	Mexican Hayride	Montana	Charles Barton
1948	Jungle Jim	Dr. Hilary Parker	William Berke
1949	The Threat	Carol	Felix E. Feist
1950	Highway 301	Mary Simms	Andrew L. Stone
1950	Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill	Janet Smedley Adams	Richard L. Bare
1951	Three Desperate Men	Laura Brock	Sam Newfield[7]
1951	Bullfighter and the Lady	Lisbeth Flood	Budd Boetticher
1951	Slaughter Trail	Lorabelle Larkin	Irving Allen
1952	Desert Pursuit	Mary Smith	George Blair
1953	A Perilous Journey	Abby	R. G. Springsteen
1953	The Fighting Lawman	Raquel Jackson	Thomas Carr
1953	Captain Scarface	Elsa	Paul Guilfoyle
1954	The Forty-Niners	Stella Walker	Thomas Carr
1954	Target Earth	Vicki Harris	Sherman A. Rose
1955	The Eternal Sea	Dorothy Buracker	John H. Auer
1955	The Last Command	Mrs. Dickinson	Frank Lloyd
1955	All That Heaven Allows	Alida Anderson	Douglas Sirk
1955	The Rose Tattoo	Estelle Hohengarten
1956	Accused of Murder	Sandra Lamoreaux	Joseph Kane
1957	Crime of Passion	Sara Alidos	Gerd Oswald
1957	Jeanne Eagels	Elsie Desmond
1958	The Restless Years	Miss Robeson	Helmut Käutner
1959	No Name on the Bullet	Roseanne Fraden	Jack Arnold
1960	Portrait in Black	Miss Lee	Michael Gordon
1961	Tammy Tell Me True	Miss Jenks	Harry Keller
1961	Back Street	Janey née Smith	David Miller
1961	Bachelor in Paradise	Camille Quinlaw	Jack Arnold
1961	Flower Drum Song	Rosalind		uncredited
1963	Black Zoo	Jenny Brooks	Robert Gordon
1964	The Naked Kiss	Candy	Samuel Fuller
1965	Love Has Many Faces	Irene Talbot	Alexander Singer
1966	Madame X	Mimsy	David Lowell Rich
1967	Rosie!	Mrs. Peters	David Lowell Rich
1970	Airport	Mrs. Schultz	George Seaton
1975	The Lives of Jenny Dolan	Landlady	Jerry Jameson
1976	The Moneychangers	Miss Callahan		final film role

References

Further reading

• Alistair, Rupert (2018). "Virginia Grey". The Name Below the Title : 65 Classic Movie Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age (softcover) (First ed.). Great Britain: Independently published. pp. 111–114. ISBN 978-1-7200-3837-5.

External links

• Virginia Grey at IMDb
• Virginia Grey at the Internet Broadway Database
• Virginia Grey at Find a Grave

На других языках

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[de] Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey (* 22. März 1917 in Los Angeles; † 31. Juli 2004 in Woodland Hills, Kalifornien) war eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Virginia Grey

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[es] Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey (Edendale, California, 22 de marzo de 1917 - 31 de julio de 2004)[1] fue una prolífica actriz estadounidense que apareció en más de 100 películas y numerosos programas de televisión desde la década de 1930 hasta principios de la década de 1980.[2]

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[ru] Грей, Вирджиния

Вирджиния Грей (англ. Virginia Grey, 22 марта 1917 (1917-03-22) — 31 июля 2004) — американская актриса.

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