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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 29, 1910
Died
February 24, 1982
Place of Birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
- Helen Virginia Briggs
Virginia Bruce
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
6.0
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
7.4
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974
6.2
Mrs. Wagner
Strangers When We Meet
1960
5.0
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Laura Weeks
The Reluctant Bride
1955
6.0
Nurse
The Plague
1954
6.5
Dee Norman
Letter to Loretta
1953
6.4
Adele
General Electric Theater
1953
🎬
6.3
Pauline Travis
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Credits
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.0
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
1974
7.4
Strangers When We Meet
as Mrs. Wagner
1960
6.2
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
The Reluctant Bride
as Laura Weeks
1955
5.0
The Plague
as Nurse
1954
6.0
Letter to Loretta
as Dee Norman
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Adele
1953
6.4
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Pauline Travis
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mildred Pierce
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Jo Cathcart Archer
1950
6.3
State Department: File 649
as Marge
1949
4.3
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
as Jenny
1948
6.7
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Roberta Baxter
1945
4.0
Brazil
as Nicky Henderson
1944
4.9
Action in Arabia
as Yvonne
1944
5.9
Careful, Soft Shoulders
as Connie Mathers
1942
6.0
Pardon My Sarong
as Joan Marshall
1942
6.4
Butch Minds the Baby
as Susie O'Neill
1942
0.0
Adventure in Washington
as Jane Scott
1941
6.0
The Invisible Woman
as Kitty Carroll
1940
5.7
Hired Wife
as Phyllis Walden
1940
6.8
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
6.5
The Man Who Talked Too Much
as Joan Reed
1940
6.0
Flight Angels
as Mary Norvell
1940
3.5
Stronger Than Desire
as Elizabeth Flagg
1939
5.1
Land of Liberty
as (archive footage)
1939
0.0
Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
1939
5.3
Society Lawyer
as Pat Abbott
1939
5.0
Let Freedom Ring
as Maggie Adams
1939
6.0
There's That Woman Again
as Sally Reardon
1938
5.8
There Goes My Heart
as Joan Butterfield
1938
7.1
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
7.0
Woman Against Woman
as Maris Kent
1938
6.5
Yellow Jack
as Frances Blake
1938
5.6
The First Hundred Years
as Lynn Conway
1938
6.0
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Lorraine de Grissac
1938
5.8
The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Loretta Douglas
1937
6.0
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Nurse Stephens
1937
6.0
Between Two Women
as Patricia Sloan
1937
5.5
When Love Is Young
as Wanda Werner
1937
0.0
Women of Glamour
as Gloria Hudson
1937
5.0
Born to Dance
as Lucy James
1936
6.0
The Great Ziegfeld
as Audrey Dane
1936
6.3
The Garden Murder Case
as Zalia Graem
1936
5.4
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
1935
5.6
Metropolitan
as Anne Merrill
1935
0.0
Here Comes the Band
as Margaret
1935
5.0
The Murder Man
as Mary Shannon
1935
6.9
Escapade
as Gerta
1935
0.0
Let 'em Have It
as Eleanor Spencer
1935
7.0
Times Square Lady
as Toni Bradley
1935
6.0
Shadow of Doubt
as Trenna
1935
6.2
Society Doctor
as Madge
1935
6.3
The Mighty Barnum
as Jenny Lind
1934
0.5
Dangerous Corner
as Ann Beale
1934
5.7
Jane Eyre
as Jane Eyre
1934
4.9
Kongo
as Ann
1932
6.4
Downstairs
as Anna
1932
6.5
Winner Take All
as Joan Gibson
1932
4.7
Sky Bride
as Ruth Dunning
1932
0.0
The Miracle Man
as Margaret Thornton
1932
5.7
Whoopee!
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1930
6.4
Follow Thru
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
1930
7.4
Let's Go Native
as Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
1930
7.5
Raffles
as Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
1930
6.1
The Social Lion
as Society Girl
1930
6.0
Safety in Numbers
as Alma McGregor
1930
5.0
Paramount on Parade
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1930
6.1
Young Eagles
as Florence Welford
1930
6.0
Only the Brave
as Elizabeth
1930
0.0
Slightly Scarlet
as Enid Corbett
1930
5.0
The Love Parade
as Lady-in-Waiting
1930
6.6
Lilies of the Field
as Doris
1930
2.7
Pointed Heels
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1929
6.1
Woman Trap
as Nurse
1929
4.8
Hard to Get
as Young Woman (uncredited)
1929
0.0
The River of Romance
as Southern Belle
1929
4.0
Fugitives
as Extra (uncredited)
1929
0.0