Virginia Bruce
Highest Rated: 83% Kongo (1932)
Lowest Rated: 60% Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Birthday: Sep 29, 1910
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
At one point, the delicate and lovely Virginia Bruce seemed poised for movie icon status, the culmination of a remarkable series of events that included bit parts in films during the late 1920s, a marriage to actor John Gilbert, and divorce followed by resumption of her screen acting career. Alas, many of the resulting movies were only of B-picture quality. However, Bruce did star in a few well-received films, though usually as the obstacle to true love. In the years immediately following her divorce, Bruce's films included the 1936 "Born to Dance," in which she played the rival to star Eleanor Powell. Meanwhile, in "The Great Ziegfeld," released in the same year, she played the ill-fated Audrey Dane, a would-be star brought down by alcohol abuse. Bruce continued to take on roles in films of all sorts through the 1940s, including romances and sci-fi pictures, although her best performances tended to be as mischievous and defiant women. In '38's "There Goes My Heart" starring Fredric March, she played an heiress who runs away from home and becomes an ordinary shop girl in New York City; and in the '40 "The Invisible Woman," her character uses an invisibility machine to exact revenge on others. The '42 comedy "Pardon My Sarong" is considered one of the best films featuring the duo of Abbott and Costello, but Bruce's film career would slow shortly afterward, and she would start appearing far more often on television than film beginning in the 1950s.
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Virginia Bruce
Filmography
Movies
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60% |
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Strangers When We Meet | Mrs. Wagner (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | State Department: File 649 | Marge (Character) | - | 1949 |
80% |
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes | Jenny Courtland (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, Honor and Goodbye | Roberta Baxter (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Action in Arabia | Yvonne Danesco (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brazil | Nicky Henderson (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Butch Minds the Baby | Susie O'Neill (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Careful, Soft Shoulder | Connie Mathers (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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Pardon My Sarong | Joan Marshall (Character) | - | 1942 |
67% |
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The Invisible Woman | Kitty Carroll (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adventure in Washington | Jane Scott (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight Angels | Mary Norvell (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hired Wife | Phyllis Walden (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Talked Too Much | Joan Reed (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stronger Than Desire | Elizabeth Flagg (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Let Freedom Ring | Maggie Adams (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Society Lawyer | Pat Abbott (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yellow Jack | Frances Blake (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Arsene Lupin Returns | Lorraine de Grissac (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First Hundred Years | Lynn Conway (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woman Against Woman | Maris Kent (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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There Goes My Heart | Joan Butterfield (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women of Glamour | Gloria (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bad Man of Brimstone | Loretta Douglas (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surrounded by Women | Patricia Sloan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wife, Doctor and Nurse |
Miss Stephens/ |
- | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Between Two Women | Patricia Sloan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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The Garden Murder Case | Zalia Graem (Character) | - | 1936 |
71% |
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The Great Ziegfeld | Audrey Dane (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet |
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Born to Dance | Lucy James (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Metropolitan | Anne Merrill Beaconhill (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Murder Man | Mary Shannon (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Let 'Em Have It | Eleanor Spencer (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of Doubt | Trenna (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here Comes the Band | Margaret Wallace (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escapade | Gerta (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Times Square Lady | Toni Bradley (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Society Doctor | Madge Wilson (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mighty Barnum | Jenny Lind (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Corner | Ann (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winner Take All | Joan Gibson (Character) | - | 1932 |
83% |
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Kongo | Ann (Character) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet |
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Downstairs | Anna (Character) | - | 1932 |
60% |
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Raffles | Gwen's Friend (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet |
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Paramount on Parade | Cameo appearance (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Eagles | Florence Welford (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Only the Brave | Elizabeth (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slightly Scarlet | Enid Corbett (Character) | - | 1930 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |