Virginia Grey
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-03-22
Day of Death
2004-07-31 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Edendale, California, USA
Virginia Grey
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2002)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Self - Actress
(1975)
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
as Landlady
(1974)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
(1970)
Airport
as Mrs. Schultz
(1967)
Rosie!
as Mrs. Peters
(1966)
Madame X
as Mimsy
(1965)
Love Has Many Faces
as Irene Talbot
(1964)
The Naked Kiss
as Candy
(1963)
Black Zoo
as Jenny Brooks
(1961)
Tammy Tell Me True
as Miss Jenks
(1961)
Back Street
as Janey nee Smith
(1961)
Bachelor in Paradise
as Camille Quinlaw
(1960)
Portrait in Black
as Miss Lee
(1959)
No Name on the Bullet
as Roseanne Fraden
(1958)
The Restless Years
as Miss Robson
(1958)
The Great Gatsby
as Myrtle Wilson
(1957)
Jeanne Eagels
as Elsie Desmond
(1956)
Crime of Passion
as Sara Alidas
(1956)
Accused of Murder
as Sandra Lamoreaux
(1955)
All That Heaven Allows
as Alida Anderson
(1955)
The Rose Tattoo
as Estelle Hohengarten
(1955)
The Last Command
as Mrs. Dickinson
(1955)
The Eternal Sea
as Dorothy Buracker
(1954)
Target Earth
as Vicki Harris
(1954)
The Forty-Niners
as Stella Walker
(1953)
Captain Scarface
as Elsa
(1953)
A Perilous Journey
as Abby
(1953)
Fighting Lawman
as Raquel Jackson
(1952)
Desert Pursuit
as Mary Smith
(1951)
Slaughter Trail
as Lorabelle Larkin
(1951)
Three Desperate Men
as Laura Brock
(1951)
Bullfighter and the Lady
as Lisbeth Flood
(1950)
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
as Janet Smedley Adams
(1950)
Highway 301
as Mary Simms
(1949)
The Threat
as Carol
(1948)
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
as Ann Loring
(1948)
Unknown Island
as Carole Lane
(1948)
So This Is New York
as Ella Finch
(1948)
Mexican Hayride
as Mary / Montana
(1948)
Leather Gloves
as Jane Gilbert
(1948)
Miraculous Journey
as Patricia
(1948)
Jungle Jim
as Dr. Hilary Parker
(1948)
Glamour Girl
as Lorraine Royle
(1947)
Unconquered
as Diana
(1947)
Wyoming
as Lila Regan
(1946)
Swamp Fire
as Janet Hilton
(1946)
House of Horrors
as Joan Medford
(1946)
Smooth as Silk
as Paula Marlowe
(1945)
Men in Her Diary
as Diana Lee
(1945)
Flame of Barbary Coast
as Rita Dane
(1945)
Blonde Ransom
as Vicki Morrison
(1945)
Grissly's Millions
as Katherine Palmor Bentley
(1944)
Strangers in the Night
as Dr. Leslie Ross
(1943)
Stage Door Canteen
as Virginia Grey
(1943)
Idaho
as Terry
(1943)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Edna Van Dyke
(1942)
Tarzan's New York Adventure
as Connie Beach
(1942)
Grand Central Murder
as Sue 'Butch' Custer
(1942)
Tish
as Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
(1942)
Mr. and Mrs. North
as Jane Wilson
(1942)
Secrets of the Underground
as Terry Parker
(1942)
Bells of Capistrano
as Jennifer Benton
(1941)
The Big Store
as Joan Sutton
(1941)
Whistling in the Dark
as 'Fran' Post
(1941)
Blonde Inspiration
as Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
(1941)
Washington Melodrama
as Teddy Carlyle
(1940)
The Golden Fleecing
as Lila Hanley
(1940)
The Captain Is a Lady
as Mary Peabody
(1940)
Hullabaloo
as Laura Merriweather
(1940)
Keeping Company
as Anastasia Atherton
(1940)
Three Cheers for the Irish
as Patricia Casey
(1939)
The Women
as Pat
(1939)
Another Thin Man
as Lois MacFay
(1939)
Idiot's Delight
as Shirley Laughlin
(1939)
Broadway Serenade
as Pearl
(1939)
The Hardys Ride High
as Consuela MacNish
(1939)
Thunder Afloat
as Susan Thorson
(1939)
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1938)
Youth Takes a Fling
as Madge
(1938)
Test Pilot
as Sarah
(1938)
Dramatic School
as Simone
(1938)
The Shopworn Angel
as Chorus Girl #1
(1938)
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
as June
(1938)
Ladies in Distress
as Sally
(1938)
The Canary Comes Across
as Ann Clayton
(1938)
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Selma Willis
(1938)
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
as Virginia Mason
(1937)
Secret Valley
as Joan Carlo
(1937)
Rosalie
as Mary Callahan
(1937)
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
(1937)
Bad Guy
as Kitty Ryan
(1937)
Pacific Paradise
as Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
(1936)
Our Relations
as Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
(1936)
Old Hutch
as Ethel
(1936)
Violets in Spring
as Mary Jones
(1935)
Don't Bet on Blondes
as Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
(1934)
Dames
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
(1934)
Flirtation Walk
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
(1933)
Secrets
as Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
(1931)
Palmy Days
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
(1931)
Misbehaving Ladies
as Hazel Boyd
(1928)
The Michigan Kid
as Rose, as a child
(1928)
Heart to Heart
as Hazel Boyd
(1927)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare