Virginia Grey
Acting • Born 1917-03-22 – Died 2004-07-31
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.
Filmography
123 credits
Crime of Passion
Movie • 1956
Sara Alidas
Airport
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Schultz
Love Has Many Faces
Movie • 1965
Irene Talbot
Target Earth
Movie • 1954
Vicki Harris
Black Zoo
Movie • 1963
Jenny Brooks
The Women
Movie • 1939
Pat
Mexican Hayride
Movie • 1948
Mary / Montana
The Naked Kiss
Movie • 1964
Candy
The Big Store
Movie • 1941
Joan Sutton
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Movie • 1942
Connie Beach
Flame of Barbary Coast
Movie • 1945
Rita Dane
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1958
Myrtle Wilson
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Movie • 1948
Ann Loring
Highway 301
Movie • 1950
Mary Simms
Another Thin Man
Movie • 1939
Lois MacFay
Madame X
Movie • 1966
Mimsy
Strangers in the Night
Movie • 1944
Dr. Leslie Ross
All That Heaven Allows
Movie • 1955
Alida Anderson
Accused of Murder
Movie • 1956
Sandra Lamoreaux
Rosalie
Movie • 1937
Mary Callahan
Tammy Tell Me True
Movie • 1961
Miss Jenks
Portrait in Black
Movie • 1960
Miss Lee
Grand Central Murder
Movie • 1942
Sue 'Butch' Custer
The Rose Tattoo
Movie • 1955
Estelle Hohengarten
No Name on the Bullet
Movie • 1959
Roseanne Fraden
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie • 1961
Camille Quinlaw
Unconquered
Movie • 1947
Diana
The Threat
Movie • 1949
Carol
Whistling in the Dark
Movie • 1941
'Fran' Post
House of Horrors
Movie • 1946
Joan Medford
Bullfighter and the Lady
Movie • 1951
Lisbeth Flood
Thunder Afloat
Movie • 1939
Susan Thorson
So This Is New York
Movie • 1948
Ella Finch
Mr. and Mrs. North
Movie • 1942
Jane Wilson
Jungle Jim
Movie • 1948
Dr. Hilary Parker
The Restless Years
Movie • 1958
Miss Robson
Jeanne Eagels
Movie • 1957
Elsie Desmond
Slaughter Trail
Movie • 1951
Lorabelle Larkin
A Perilous Journey
Movie • 1953
Abby
Three Desperate Men
Movie • 1951
Laura Brock
Broadway Serenade
Movie • 1939
Pearl
Smooth as Silk
Movie • 1946
Paula Marlowe
The Golden Fleecing
Movie • 1940
Lila Hanley
Unknown Island
Movie • 1948
Carole Lane
Idaho
Movie • 1943
Terry
Blonde Inspiration
Movie • 1941
Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
Dramatic School
Movie • 1938
Simone
Hullabaloo
Movie • 1940
Laura Merriweather
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Movie • 1938
Selma Willis
Rosie!
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Peters
Secret Valley
Movie • 1937
Joan Carlo
Bad Guy
Movie • 1937
Kitty Ryan
Three Cheers for the Irish
Movie • 1940
Patricia Casey
The Eternal Sea
Movie • 1955
Dorothy Buracker
Back Street
Movie • 1961
Janey nee Smith
Miraculous Journey
Movie • 1948
Patricia
The Forty-Niners
Movie • 1954
Stella Walker
Dames
Movie • 1934
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Washington Melodrama
Movie • 1941
Teddy Carlyle
Leather Gloves
Movie • 1948
Jane Gilbert
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Movie • 2002
Self - Actress
The Michigan Kid
Movie • 1928
Rose, as a child
Old Hutch
Movie • 1936
Ethel
Tish
Movie • 1942
Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
Heart to Heart
Movie • 1928
Hazel Boyd
Keeping Company
Movie • 1940
Anastasia Atherton
Youth Takes a Fling
Movie • 1938
Madge
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Movie • 1938
June
Flirtation Walk
Movie • 1934
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage)
Our Relations
Movie • 1936
Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
Test Pilot
Movie • 1938
Sarah
Fighting Lawman
Movie • 1953
Raquel Jackson
Idiot's Delight
Movie • 1939
Shirley Laughlin
The Hardys Ride High
Movie • 1939
Consuela MacNish
Bells of Capistrano
Movie • 1942
Jennifer Benton
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Movie • 1943
Edna Van Dyke
Desert Pursuit
Movie • 1952
Mary Smith
Swamp Fire
Movie • 1946
Janet Hilton
The Last Command
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Dickinson
The Shopworn Angel
Movie • 1938
Chorus Girl #1
Stage Door Canteen
Movie • 1943
Virginia Grey
Ladies in Distress
Movie • 1938
Sally
Blonde Ransom
Movie • 1945
Vicki Morrison
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Movie • 1938
Virginia Mason
Secrets of the Underground
Movie • 1942
Terry Parker
Grissly's Millions
Movie • 1945
Katherine Palmor Bentley
The Captain is a Lady
Movie • 1940
Mary Peabody
Glamour Girl
Movie • 1948
Lorraine Royle
Captain Scarface
Movie • 1953
Elsa
Palmy Days
Movie • 1931
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Misbehaving Ladies
Movie • 1931
Hazel Boyd
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
Movie • 1950
Janet Smedley Adams
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie • 1937
Self
Secrets
Movie • 1933
Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
Wyoming
Movie • 1947
Lila Regan
Violets in Spring
Movie • 1936
Mary Jones
From the Ends of the Earth
Movie • 1939
Self
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Movie • 1927
Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare
Men in Her Diary
Movie • 1945
Diana Lee
The Canary Comes Across
Movie • 1938
Ann Clayton
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Movie • 1975
Landlady
Pacific Paradise
Movie • 1937
Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
Don't Bet on Blondes
Movie • 1935
Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Elaine Barrows
Trackdown
TV • 1957
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV • 1969
Mrs. Cavanaugh
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Blanche Bickerson
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Mrs. Bennett
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Iris Millar
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Laura Pritican
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Emily Dubois
Peter Gunn
TV • 1958
Your Show of Shows
TV • 1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Laura Ward
Climax!
TV • 1954
Edna
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV • 1959
Connie Vaccarous
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Marjorie Martinson
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Nancy Shaw
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Angela