Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey

Birthday: 1917-03-22

Deathday: 2004-07-31

Place of birth: Edendale, California, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0340706

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.

Played in movies:

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

Score: 8.0

That's Entertainment!

Score: 7.3

All That Heaven Allows

Score: 7.3

Another Thin Man

Score: 7.1

The Women

Score: 7.1

The Romance of Celluloid

Score: 7.0

Palmy Days

Score: 7.0

The Naked Kiss

Score: 7.0

Our Relations

Score: 7.0

The Rose Tattoo

Score: 6.9

The Shopworn Angel

Score: 6.9

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Score: 6.8

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

Score: 6.7

No Name on the Bullet

Score: 6.6

Highway 301

Score: 6.6

Test Pilot

Score: 6.5

Madame X

Score: 6.5

The Last Command

Score: 6.4

Keeping Company

Score: 6.4

Dames

Score: 6.4

The Eternal Sea

Score: 6.4

Airport

Score: 6.4

Unconquered

Score: 6.3

Three Cheers for the Irish

Score: 6.3

Jeanne Eagels

Score: 6.3

Tarzan's New York Adventure

Score: 6.3

Bachelor in Paradise

Score: 6.3

Dramatic School

Score: 6.2

Broadway Serenade

Score: 6.2

House of Horrors

Score: 6.2

Strangers in the Night

Score: 6.2

The Big Store

Score: 6.2

Crime of Passion

Score: 6.2

Stage Door Canteen

Score: 6.1

Idiot's Delight

Score: 6.1

Bullfighter and the Lady

Score: 6.1

Wyoming

Score: 6.0

The Captain Is a Lady

Score: 6.0

Grissly's Millions

Score: 6.0

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Score: 6.0

Bells of Capistrano

Score: 6.0

Fighting Lawman

Score: 6.0

Snow Gets in Your Eyes

Score: 6.0

Bad Guy

Score: 6.0

So This Is New York

Score: 6.0

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Score: 5.9

Thunder Afloat

Score: 5.9

Grand Central Murder

Score: 5.9

Tammy Tell Me True

Score: 5.9

Target Earth

Score: 5.8

The Hardys Ride High

Score: 5.8

Back Street

Score: 5.8

Whistling in the Dark

Score: 5.8

The Threat

Score: 5.8

Desert Pursuit

Score: 5.7

Tish

Score: 5.7

The Forty-Niners

Score: 5.7

Idaho

Score: 5.7

Portrait in Black

Score: 5.7

Flirtation Walk

Score: 5.6

Mexican Hayride

Score: 5.6

Black Zoo

Score: 5.6

Rosalie

Score: 5.5

Flame of Barbary Coast

Score: 5.5

Swamp Fire

Score: 5.4

Blonde Inspiration

Score: 5.4

Violets in Spring

Score: 5.3

The Golden Fleecing

Score: 5.3

Jungle Jim

Score: 5.3

Secrets

Score: 5.1

Unknown Island

Score: 5.0

Don't Bet on Blondes

Score: 5.0

Washington Melodrama

Score: 5.0

Smooth as Silk

Score: 5.0

Miraculous Journey

Score: 4.7

Love Has Many Faces

Score: 4.7

Mr. and Mrs. North

Score: 4.5

Accused of Murder

Score: 4.5

Captain Scarface

Score: 4.3

Secret Valley

Score: 4.0

Hullabaloo

Score: 4.0

Three Desperate Men

Score: 4.0

A Perilous Journey

Score: 4.0

Slaughter Trail

Score: 3.8

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

Score: 3.6

The Canary Comes Across

Score: 3.5

Youth Takes a Fling

Score: 1.0

Because I Love Him

Score: 0.0

Pacific Paradise

Score: 0.0

The Lives of Jenny Dolan

Score: 0.0

Men in Her Diary

Score: 0.0

From the Ends of the Earth

Score: 0.0

Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

Score: 0.0

Misbehaving Ladies

Score: 0.0

Glamour Girl

Score: 0.0

Secrets of the Underground

Score: 0.0

Blonde Ransom

Score: 0.0

Ladies in Distress

Score: 0.0

Heart to Heart

Score: 0.0

Old Hutch

Score: 0.0

The Michigan Kid

Score: 0.0

Leather Gloves

Score: 0.0

Rosie!

Score: 0.0

The Restless Years

Score: 0.0

The Great Gatsby

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.2

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.7

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.7

Peter Gunn

Score: 6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Score: 6.5

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.4

My Three Sons

Score: 6.4

Trackdown

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Score: 6.3

Your Show of Shows

Score: 6.3

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Score: 5.8

Yancy Derringer

Score: 5.6

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Score: 5.4

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

The Millionaire

Score: 5.0

Climax!

Score: 3.3