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Acting
Birthday
March 22, 1917
Died
July 31, 2004
Place of Birth
Edendale, California, USA
Virginia Grey
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.7
Self - Actress
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
0.0
Landlady
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
1975
7.4
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974
6.5
Mrs. Schultz
Airport
1970
6.5
Mrs. Cavanaugh
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
0.0
Mrs. Peters
Rosie!
1967
6.4
Mimsy
Madame X
1966
4.7
Irene Talbot
Love Has Many Faces
1965
7.0
Candy
The Naked Kiss
1964
6.0
Elaine Barrows
Burke's Law
1963
Credits
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Self - Actress
2002
6.7
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
as Landlady
1975
0.0
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
1974
7.4
Airport
as Mrs. Schultz
1970
6.5
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Mrs. Cavanaugh
1969
6.5
Rosie!
as Mrs. Peters
1967
0.0
Madame X
as Mimsy
1966
6.4
Love Has Many Faces
as Irene Talbot
1965
4.7
The Naked Kiss
as Candy
1964
7.0
Burke's Law
as Elaine Barrows
1963
6.0
Black Zoo
as Jenny Brooks
1963
5.6
The Virginian
as Laura Pritican
1962
6.4
Bachelor in Paradise
as Camille Quinlaw
1961
6.3
Back Street
as Janey nee Smith
1961
5.5
Tammy Tell Me True
as Miss Jenks
1961
5.9
My Three Sons
1960
6.5
Portrait in Black
as Miss Lee
1960
5.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Connie Vaccarous
1959
6.3
No Name on the Bullet
as Roseanne Fraden
1959
6.6
The Restless Years
as Miss Robson
1958
0.0
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Yancy Derringer
as Emily Dubois
1958
6.0
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
The Great Gatsby
as Myrtle Wilson
1958
0.0
Trackdown
1957
6.4
Jeanne Eagels
as Elsie Desmond
1957
6.0
Crime of Passion
as Sara Alidas
1956
6.1
Accused of Murder
as Sandra Lamoreaux
1956
4.5
The Rose Tattoo
as Estelle Hohengarten
1955
6.8
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
All That Heaven Allows
as Alida Anderson
1955
7.3
The Last Command
as Mrs. Dickinson
1955
6.4
The Eternal Sea
as Dorothy Buracker
1955
6.4
The Millionaire
as Iris Millar
1955
5.0
The Millionaire
as Marjorie Martinson
1955
5.0
Target Earth
as Vicki Harris
1954
5.8
Climax!
as Edna
1954
3.3
The Forty-Niners
as Stella Walker
1954
5.7
Captain Scarface
as Elsa
1953
4.3
Fighting Lawman
as Raquel Jackson
1953
6.0
A Perilous Journey
as Abby
1953
3.8
General Electric Theater
as Mrs. Bennett
1953
6.4
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Nancy Shaw
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Angela
1952
6.7
Desert Pursuit
as Mary Smith
1952
5.7
Slaughter Trail
as Lorabelle Larkin
1951
3.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Laura Ward
1951
7.2
Bullfighter and the Lady
as Lisbeth Flood
1951
6.1
Three Desperate Men
as Laura Brock
1951
4.0
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
as Janet Smedley Adams
1950
0.0
Highway 301
as Mary Simms
1950
6.4
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
The Threat
as Carol
1949
5.8
Mexican Hayride
as Mary / Montana
1948
5.6
Jungle Jim
as Dr. Hilary Parker
1948
5.3
Leather Gloves
as Jane Gilbert
1948
0.0
Unknown Island
as Carole Lane
1948
5.0
Miraculous Journey
as Patricia
1948
4.7
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Blanche Bickerson
1948
6.8
So This Is New York
as Ella Finch
1948
6.0
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Ann Loring
1948
3.6
Glamour Girl
as Lorraine Royle
1948
0.0
Unconquered
as Diana
1947
6.3
Wyoming
as Lila Regan
1947
6.0
Swamp Fire
as Janet Hilton
1946
5.2
House of Horrors
as Joan Medford
1946
6.0
Smooth as Silk
as Paula Marlowe
1946
4.8
Men in Her Diary
as Diana Lee
1945
0.0
Flame of Barbary Coast
as Rita Dane
1945
5.3
🎬
Blonde Ransom
as Vicki Morrison
1945
0.0
Grissly's Millions
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
1945
6.0
Strangers in the Night
as Dr. Leslie Ross
1944
6.2
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Edna Van Dyke
1943
6.0
Stage Door Canteen
as Virginia Grey
1943
6.1
Idaho
as Terry
1943
5.7
Secrets of the Underground
as Terry Parker
1942
0.0
Tish
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
1942
5.7
Bells of Capistrano
as Jennifer Benton
1942
6.0
Tarzan's New York Adventure
as Connie Beach
1942
6.3
Grand Central Murder
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
1942
5.7
Mr. and Mrs. North
as Jane Wilson
1942
4.0
Whistling in the Dark
as 'Fran' Post
1941
5.8
The Big Store
as Joan Sutton
1941
6.2
Washington Melodrama
as Teddy Carlyle
1941
5.0
Blonde Inspiration
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
1941
5.4
Keeping Company
as Anastasia Atherton
1940
6.4
Hullabaloo
as Laura Merriweather
1940
4.0
The Golden Fleecing
as Lila Hanley
1940
5.3
The Captain Is a Lady
as Mary Peabody
1940
6.0
Three Cheers for the Irish
as Patricia Casey
1940
6.3
Another Thin Man
as Lois MacFay
1939
7.1
Thunder Afloat
as Susan Thorson
1939
5.9
The Women
as Pat
1939
7.1
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
1939
0.0
The Hardys Ride High
as Consuela MacNish
1939
5.8
Broadway Serenade
as Pearl
1939
6.2
Idiot's Delight
as Shirley Laughlin
1939
6.1
Dramatic School
as Simone
1938
6.2
Youth Takes a Fling
as Madge
1938
1.0
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Selma Willis
1938
5.9
The Shopworn Angel
as Chorus Girl #1
1938
6.7
Ladies in Distress
as Sally
1938
0.0
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
as June
1938
6.0
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
as Virginia Mason
1938
8.0
Test Pilot
as Sarah
1938
6.5
The Canary Comes Across
as Ann Clayton
1938
3.5
Rosalie
as Mary Callahan
1937
5.5
Pacific Paradise
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
1937
0.0
Bad Guy
as Kitty Ryan
1937
6.0
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
1937
7.0
Secret Valley
as Joan Carlo
1937
4.0
Old Hutch
as Ethel
1936
0.0
Our Relations
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
1936
7.0
🎬
Violets in Spring
as Mary Jones
1936
5.3
Don't Bet on Blondes
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
1935
5.0
Flirtation Walk
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1934
5.6
Dames
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1934
6.4
Secrets
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
1933
4.8
Palmy Days
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1931
7.0
Misbehaving Ladies
as Hazel Boyd
1931
0.0
The Michigan Kid
as Rose, as a child
1928
0.0
Heart to Heart
as Hazel Boyd
1928
0.0
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
1927
6.6
Because I Love Him
N/A
0.0