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Virginia Grey is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 22 march 1917 at Los Angeles (USA)

Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey
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Nationality USA
Birth 22 march 1917 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 31 july 2004 (at 87 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress and singer. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was movie star 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appeared in several films, including The Hardys Ride High (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), Hullabaloo (1940), and The Big Store (1941). 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. Clark and Sylvia divorced in 1952 but, much to Virginia's dismay, her brief romance with Clark 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, U.S. Marshal, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Your Show of Shows, Red Skelton, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, Burke's Law, The Virginian, Peter Gunn, Ironside and many others.

She was portrayed by Anna Torv in the HBO Mini-series The Pacific.

Biography

Elle est née à Los Angeles (Californie), et est la fille du réalisateur Ray Grey. L'une de ses baby-sitters était Gloria Swanson. Elle débute à l'âge de 10 ans dans le film muet La Case de l'oncle Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin), de Harry A. Pollard (1927) dans le rôle de Little Eva. Elle continue la comédie quelques années avant de reprendre ses études.

Virginia Grey eut des relations avec le sergent John Basilone, les acteurs Robert Taylor et Clark Gable, qu'elle fréquenta dans les années 1940.

Best films

The Rose Tattoo (1955)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Virginia Grey (86 films)

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Actress

The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Shirley Jones, Stephen Boyd, Lynn Carlin, Farley Granger, James Darren, George Grizzard
Roles Landlady
Rating61% 3.089893.089893.089893.089893.08989
A newspaper reporter is jeopardized by her investigation of an assassination
That's Entertainment!, 2h15
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Roles (archive footage)
Rating77% 3.89473.89473.89473.89473.8947
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales.
Airport
Airport (1970)
, 2h17
Directed by Henry Hathaway, George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes
Roles Mrs. Schultz
Rating65% 3.298173.298173.298173.298173.29817
Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn off of Runway 29 on to the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing Runway 29, forcing airport manager Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster) to work overtime. This causes tension with his wife, Cindy (Dana Wynter). Divorce is looming as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston (Jean Seberg). Bakersfield's brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest (Dean Martin), is a TGA captain scheduled to be the checkride captain for TGA to evaluate Captain Anson Harris (Barry Nelson) during TGA's Flight 2 to Rome. Flight 2 is aboard TGA's flagship service craft, a Boeing 707 known as The Golden Argosy. Although Demarest is married to Bakersfield's sister, Sarah (Barbara Hale), he is secretly having an affair with Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), chief stewardess on Flight 2, who informs him before the flight that she is pregnant with his child.
Rosie!
Rosie! (1967)
, 1h38
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown
Roles Mrs. Peters
Rating66% 3.3396853.3396853.3396853.3396853.339685
Rosie Lord (Russell) is a widowed millionaire who, much to the dismay of her daughters Mildred (Meadows) and Edith (Brown), spends her money generously. When she announces to buy a $2.5 million closed theater in a run-down part of Los Angeles, because it's the location where her late husband proposed to her and it's now threatened to be turned into a parking lot, her daughters decide that they have had enough. Edith and her husband Cabot (Nielsen) complain that they are only granted $100.000 a year, and work together with cold-hearted and recently divorced Mildred to discourage Rosie from making the buy. They are unable to convince her and her legal advisor Oliver (Aherne) to let them take care of their money, and thus decide to try to declare her incompetent, thereby hoping to put her in an insane asylum. Edith and Cabot's young daughter Daphne (Dee) is appalled to overhear the scheme, and vows to help her grandmother.
Madame X
Madame X (1966)
, 1h40
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Melodrama
Actors Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalbán, Constance Bennett, Cristina Montt, John van Dreelen
Roles Mimsy
Rating68% 3.445683.445683.445683.445683.44568
A lower class woman, Holly Parker (Turner), marries into the rich Anderson family. Her husband's mother (Constance Bennett) looks down on her and keeps a watchful eye on her activities. Due to her husband's frequent and long trips abroad, Holly forms a relationship with a well-known playboy (Ricardo Montalbán). When her lover accidentally dies, and only her mother-in-law knows she is innocent, the latter blackmails her into disappearing into the night during a planned boat trip, leaving her husband (John Forsythe) and young son (Teddy Quinn) thinking she has died.
Love Has Many Faces, 1h44
Directed by Alexander Singer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian, Ruth Roman, Stefanie Powers, Virginia Grey
Roles Irene Talbot
Rating52% 2.6105552.6105552.6105552.6105552.610555
When a dead American "beach boy" is washed up on a beach in Acapulco, the police do an investigation to see if it was murder. Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade (Enrique Lucero) of the Mexican police interviews three suspects. Hank Walker (Hugh O'Brian) is another beach boy who works as a gigolo and also blackmails vacationing middle-aged American women. Pete Jordan (Cliff Robertson) is a former beach boy who married rich American Kit (Lana Turner). Kit met Pete when he was selling his blood and bought all of him. The dead man was wearing a bracelet engraved "LOVE IS THIN ICE," which the police discover was given to him by Kit. They also discover that he'd had an affair with her.
The Naked Kiss, 1h30
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Edy Williams
Roles Candy
Rating71% 3.5973653.5973653.5973653.5973653.597365
Kelly (Constance Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police chief Griff (Anthony Eisley), who then tells her to stay out of his town and refers her to a cat-house just across the state line.
Black Zoo
Black Zoo (1963)
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Michael Gough, Jeanne Cooper, Rod Lauren, Virginia Grey, Jerome Cowan, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Jenny Brooks
Rating56% 2.812612.812612.812612.812612.81261
Michael Conrad is a private zookeeper who owns Conrad's Animal Kingdom. He leads a cult group who literally worship the animals he tends — especially the big cats: a lion, a lioness, a pair of cheetahs, a tiger, and a black panther; as well as a gorilla. Conrad plays organ music to the animals in his living room, and uses them to kill anyone who gets in his way. Conrad is married to Edna and forces his mute son Carl to assist him.
Tammy Tell Me True
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Julia Meade, Beulah Bondi
Roles Miss Jenks
Rating63% 3.1966353.1966353.1966353.1966353.196635
Tammy is waiting to hear from her lover Pete, who has gone to agricultural college. She decides to go to college to improve herself.
Bachelor in Paradise, 1h49
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Paula Prentiss, Virginia Grey, Jim Hutton
Roles Camille Quinlaw
Rating62% 3.149653.149653.149653.149653.14965
A.J. Niles is a provocative best-selling author who discovers that he has a large tax debt owed to the IRS, due to being ripped off by his accountant, Herman Wapinger. He goes undercover under the alias "Jack Adams" in a California suburban community called Paradise Village to research a new book about the wives and lives there. Niles is pursued by a flirtatious married woman named Dolores while falling in love with a woman, Rosemary, who rents her house to him. Wapinger is found, Niles' cash is returned to him, and he reveals his true identity on national television. The husbands in Paradise Village all file for divorce, believing their wives are all having affairs with Niles. In divorce court, Niles reveals that he is in love with Rosemary and asks her to marry him. Everyone lives happily ever after.
Back Street, 1h47
Directed by David Miller
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Janey nee Smith
Rating65% 3.293963.293963.293963.293963.29396
Paul Saxon, riche héritier d'une chaîne de magasins, rencontre Rae Smith à son retour de guerre. Attendant un avion pour New York, ils passent une journée ensemble et tombent mutuellement amoureux. Rae rate l'avion, et découvre par la suite que Paul est marié. Rae décide de tenter sa chance à New York et trouve du travail auprès du fameux styliste Dalian. Elle rencontre Paul par hasard et ils se rendent compte qu'ils sont encore amoureux l'un de l'autre. Ne voulant pas devenir sa maîtresse cachée, Rae décide alors de fuir et de poursuivre sa carrière à Rome.
Back Street, 1h47
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Natalie Schafer
Roles Janey nee Smith
Rating65% 3.293963.293963.293963.293963.29396
Wealthy department-store heir Paul Saxon has a romantic fling with a Nebraska dress-shop owner, Rae Smith, who breaks it off when she discovers he is married.
Portrait in Black, 1h52
Directed by David Lowell Rich, Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, John Forsythe, Sandra Dee, John Saxon
Roles Miss Lee
Rating62% 3.1473653.1473653.1473653.1473653.147365
Sheila Cabot (Lana Turner) becomes increasingly disturbed as she cares for her ailing, disagreeable husband (Lloyd Nolan). Along the way, she falls in love with Dr. David Rivera (Anthony Quinn), who is tending her husband. This leads to a series of unfortunate events, resulting in the death of the husband and an ensuing murder investigation.
No Name on the Bullet, 1h17
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Karl Swenson
Roles Roseanne Fraden
Rating71% 3.5909153.5909153.5909153.5909153.590915
When infamous hired gunman John Gant (Audie Murphy) arrives in the small town of Lordsburg, Arizona, the locals are terrified by his reputation and surprised by how young he is. Although Sheriff Buck Hastings would like to arrest Gant, he points out to the townsmen that Gant always coerces his rivals to draw their gun first, allowing him to kill them legally in "self-defence." While the men in the town speculate anxiously about Gant's target, Luke Canfield (played by Charles Drake, an off-screen friend and frequent co-star of Murphy), the town blacksmith and doctor, greets Gant and is totally unaware of Gant's reputation as a hired gunman. During his first meeting with Gant at the smithy, Luke demonstrates his perfect aim with a maul.
The Restless Years
Directed by Helmut Käutner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Teresa Wright, Luana Patten, James Whitmore, Margaret Lindsay
Roles Miss Robson
Rating62% 3.1454253.1454253.1454253.1454253.145425
Melinda Grant is a 16-year-old girl with dreams of leaving her hometown of Libertyville someday and seeing the world. She is raised by a single mother, Elizabeth, a seamstress, and scandalized by the reputation of being illegitimate, although the meek Elizabeth insists that Melinda's father died when she was an infant.