Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey

  • Birthday: 1917-03-22
  • Deathday: 2004-07-31
  • Place of birth: Edendale, California, USA

Biography

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.

Filmography

Unknown Island

1948

As Carole Lane

Highway 301

1950

As Mary Simms

Strangers in the Night

1944

As Dr. Leslie Ross

The Threat

1949

As Carol

So This Is New York

1948

As Ella Finch

Jungle Jim

1948

As Dr. Hilary Parker

Smooth as Silk

1946

As Paula Marlowe

Blonde Inspiration

1941

As Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary

Hullabaloo

1940

As Laura Merriweather

Secret Valley

1937

As Joan Carlo

Bad Guy

1937

As Kitty Ryan

The Forty-Niners

1954

As Stella Walker

Fighting Lawman

1953

As Raquel Jackson

Blonde Ransom

1945

As Vicki Morrison

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

1938

As Virginia Mason

Secrets of the Underground

1942

As Terry Parker

Grissly's Millions

1945

As Katherine Palmor Bentley

Captain Scarface

1953

As Elsa

Swamp Fire

1946

As Janet Hilton

Desert Pursuit

1952

As Mary Smith

Violets in Spring

1936

As Mary Jones

The Canary Comes Across

1938

As Ann Clayton

Leather Gloves

1948

As Jane Gilbert

Mexican Hayride

1948

As Mary / Montana

Another Thin Man

1939

As Lois MacFay

Thunder Afloat

1939

As Susan Thorson

Slaughter Trail

1951

As Lorabelle Larkin

Three Desperate Men

1951

As Laura Brock

Idaho

1943

As Terry

The Captain Is a Lady

1940

As Mary Peabody

Bells of Capistrano

1942

As Jennifer Benton

Pacific Paradise

1937

As Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)

The Great Gatsby

1958

As Myrtle Wilson

Black Zoo

1963

As Jenny Brooks

Target Earth

1954

As Vicki Harris

The Naked Kiss

1964

As Candy

Tarzan's New York Adventure

1942

As Connie Beach

Accused of Murder

1956

As Sandra Lamoreaux

Tammy Tell Me True

1961

As Miss Jenks

Grand Central Murder

1942

As Sue 'Butch' Custer

No Name on the Bullet

1959

As Roseanne Fraden

Whistling in the Dark

1941

As 'Fran' Post

House of Horrors

1946

As Joan Medford

Bullfighter and the Lady

1951

As Lisbeth Flood

The Golden Fleecing

1940

As Lila Hanley

Three Cheers for the Irish

1940

As Patricia Casey

Ladies in Distress

1938

As Sally

Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

1950

As Janet Smedley Adams

Crime of Passion

1956

As Sara

The Big Store

1941

As Joan Sutton

Flame of Barbary Coast

1945

As Rita Dane

All That Heaven Allows

1955

As Alida Anderson

The Rose Tattoo

1955

As Estelle Hohengarten

Mr. and Mrs. North

1942

As Jane Wilson

The Eternal Sea

1955

As Dorothy Buracker

Back Street

1961

As Janey nee Smith

Miraculous Journey

1948

As Patricia

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

1943

As Edna Van Dyke

Men in Her Diary

1945

As Diana Lee

Love Has Many Faces

1965

As Irene Talbot

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

1948

As Ann Loring

Jeanne Eagels

1957

As Elsie Desmond

A Perilous Journey

1953

As Abby

Old Hutch

1936

As Ethel

Youth Takes a Fling

1938

As Madge

Wyoming

1947

As Lila Regan

Portrait in Black

1960

As Miss Lee

Bachelor in Paradise

1961

As Camille Quinlaw

The Restless Years

1958

As Miss Robson

Broadway Serenade

1939

As Pearl

Washington Melodrama

1941

As Teddy Carlyle

The Michigan Kid

1928

As Rose, as a child

Tish

1942

As Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands

Heart to Heart

1928

As Hazel Boyd

The Hardys Ride High

1939

As Consuela MacNish

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1927

As Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare

Madame X

1966

As Mimsy

Keeping Company

1940

As Anastasia Atherton

Misbehaving Ladies

1931

As Hazel Boyd

The Last Command

1955

As Mrs. Dickinson

Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938

As Selma Willis

Test Pilot

1938

As Sarah

The Shopworn Angel

1938

As Chorus Girl #1

The Women

1939

As Pat

Rosalie

1937

As Mary Callahan

Unconquered

1947

As Diana

Dramatic School

1938

As Simone

Rosie!

1967

As Mrs. Peters

Our Relations

1936

As Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)

Idiot's Delight

1939

As Shirley Laughlin

Dames

1934

As Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Palmy Days

1931

As Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

Secrets

1933

As Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)

Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner

2019

As Self (archive footage)

The Lives of Jenny Dolan

1975

As Landlady

Flirtation Walk

1934

As Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Airport

1970

As Mrs. Schultz

Don't Bet on Blondes

1935

As Girl with Henry (Uncredited)

That's Entertainment!

1974

As (archive footage)

Stage Door Canteen

1943

As Virginia Grey

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