Virginia Grey

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

109

Movies

105

Born: March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004
From: Edendale, California, USA

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.

Works

105 films

Airport

19706.5

Unconquered

19476.5

The Women

19397.2

Fighting Lawman

19536.0

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

All That Heaven Allows

19557.3

No Name on the Bullet

19596.6

The Rose Tattoo

19556.9

Madame X

19666.4

The Big Store

19416.2

Pacific Paradise

19376.5

Back Street

19615.6

Tarzan's New York Adventure

19426.4

Another Thin Man

19397.1

The Naked Kiss

19647.0

Rosalie

19376.0

Grissly's Millions

19456.5

Stage Door Canteen

19436.3

The Last Command

19556.7

The Romance of Celluloid

19377.0

Test Pilot

19386.1

Jeanne Eagels

19576.3

Idiot's Delight

19396.1

The Shopworn Angel

19386.8

Flame of Barbary Coast

19455.5

Blonde Inspiration

19415.8

Grand Central Murder

19425.7

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

19436.5

Crime of Passion

19566.1

Bachelor in Paradise

19616.3

Palmy Days

19317.3

Our Relations

19367.0

Portrait in Black

19605.7

Dames

19346.5

So This Is New York

19486.7

Bullfighter and the Lady

19516.3

Black Zoo

19635.7

Highway 301

19506.4

Men in Her Diary

19459.0

Unknown Island

19485.2

Mexican Hayride

19486.1

Tammy Tell Me True

19616.3

Whistling in the Dark

19415.9

House of Horrors

19466.1

Don't Bet on Blondes

19355.8

Idaho

19436.3

Keeping Company

19406.7

The Lives of Jenny Dolan

19757.0

From the Ends of the Earth

19395.0

Secrets

19335.2

Love Has Many Faces

19655.2

Target Earth

19546.0

The Golden Fleecing

19405.9

The Eternal Sea

19556.6

The Hardys Ride High

19396.5

The Green Fog

20186.1

Accused of Murder

19564.8

Ladies in Distress

19388.0

Dramatic School

19386.5

Flirtation Walk

19345.8

Rosie!

196710.0

A Perilous Journey

19534.5

Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

19507.0

Rich Man, Poor Girl

19386.1

The Threat

19496.0

Broadway Serenade

19396.6

The Restless Years

19587.0

Smooth as Silk

19465.0

The Great Gatsby

1958

Slaughter Trail

19514.5

Strangers in the Night

19446.4

Washington Melodrama

19416.0

Who Killed Doc Robbin?

19484.2

Youth Takes a Fling

19385.5

Miraculous Journey

19485.2

Mr. and Mrs. North

19424.4

Wyoming

19476.4

Snow Gets in Your Eyes

19386.5

Uncle Tom's Cabin

19276.8

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

20026.9

Three Cheers for the Irish

19407.0

Secret Valley

19375.3

The Michigan Kid

19289.0

The Captain is a Lady

19407.5

Bad Guy

19378.0

The Forty-Niners

19546.0

Jungle Jim

19485.8

Secrets of the Underground

19427.0

Old Hutch

193610.0

Desert Pursuit

19526.5

Blonde Ransom

19458.0

Captain Scarface

19534.8

Tish

19426.5

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

19387.0

Misbehaving Ladies

19319.0

Thunder Afloat

19396.1

Leather Gloves

19489.0

Bells of Capistrano

19427.0

Swamp Fire

19465.6

Three Desperate Men

19515.5

Hullabaloo

19406.5

Violets in Spring

19365.8

Heart to Heart

19287.0

Glamour Girl

194810.0

The Canary Comes Across

19385.3