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Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey

Highest Rated: 94% The Women (1939)

Lowest Rated: 40% Portrait in Black (1960)

Birthday: Mar 22, 1917

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

A versatile supporting actress with a blue-collar mentality, Virginia Grey appeared in more than 100 films and 40 television shows over the course of her 50-year career. The daughter of a Hollywood director, she made her screen debut in 1927 in the drama "Uncle Tom's Cabin." In the late '30s she made movies for MGM, including the comedy caper "Another Thin Man" and the Marx Brothers comedy "The Big Store." After leaving MGM in 1942 she worked for a number of studios, including 20th Century Fox and Universal, where producer Ross Hunter often used her in romance films like "All That Heaven Allows," starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. As her film career started to wane, Grey found work on television. She played a variety of characters on the Western series "Wagon Train" from 1958 to 1961, and Clara Appleby, one half of a perpetually bickering couple, on the sketch comedy show "The Red Skelton Hour." Her no-nonsense, businesslike attitude toward acting made her easy to cast and prolonged her career. Aside from her own career, Grey was also known for her brief romance with Clark Gable and her work selling war bonds in support of World War II. She died at the age of 87.

Highest rated movies

94% The Women
93% The Naked Kiss
91% All That Heaven Allows
86% Unconquered
86% Another Thin Man
83% Tarzan's New York Adventure
80% Crime of Passion
70% The Big Store

Photos

IDAHO, Virginia Grey, 1943 HOUSE OF HORRORS, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, 1946 MEXICAN HAYRIDE, Virginia Grey, 1948 THE ROSE TATTOO, Virginia Grey, 1955 SWAMP FIRE, Virginia Grey, Johnny Weissmuller, 1946 SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY, from left, Virginia Grey, Reginald Gardiner, 1943, TM and Copyright ©20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. THREE DESPERATE MEN, from left: Preston Foster, Virginia Grey, 1951 ANOTHER THIN MAN, (top) Ruth Hussey, Virginia Grey, Muriel Hutchinson, (middle) Tom Neal, Horace McMahon, (bottom) Don Costello, Abner Biberman, 1939 BAD GUY, Virginia Grey, 1937 THE GOLDEN FLEECING, Virginia Grey, 1940 WHISTLING IN THE DARK, from left: Virginia Grey, Red Skelton, 1941 BAD GUY, Virginia Grey, 1937 STAGE DOOR CANTEEN, Virginia Grey, 1943 ANOTHER THIN MAN, Virginia Grey, Tom Neal, William Powell, Patric Knowles, 1939 THE GOLDEN FLEECING, Rita Johnson, Lew Ayres, Virginia Grey, 1940 GRAND CENTRAL MURDER, Sam Levene, Tom Conway, Van Heflin, Virginia Grey, 1942 ANOTHER THIN MAN, Patric Knowles, Virginia Grey, Tom Neal, Myrna Loy, William Powell, 1939 WHISTLING IN THE DARK, from left: Ann Rutherford, Red Skelton, Don Douglas (rear), Conrad Veidt, Virginia Grey, 1941 YOUTH TAKES A FLING, Andrea Leeds, Virginia Grey, Dorothea Kent, 1938 WHISTLING IN THE DARK, from left: Red Skelton, Virginia Grey, Ann Rutherford, 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Moneychangers Miss Callahan (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lives of Jenny Dolan Landlady (Character) - 1975
50% 80% Madame X Mimsy (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 38% Love Has Many Faces Irene Talbot (Character) - 1965
93% 79% The Naked Kiss Candy (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 20% Black Zoo Jenny Brooks (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 69% Back Street Janey nee Smith (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 38% Bachelor in Paradise Camille Quinlaw (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 75% Tammy Tell Me True Miss Jenks (Character) - 1961
40% 50% Portrait in Black Miss Lee (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 76% No Name on the Bullet Roseanne Fraden (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Restless Years Miss Robeson (Character) - 1959
80% 33% Crime of Passion Sara Alidos (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 54% Jeanne Eagels Elsie Desmond (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Accused of Murder Sandra Lamoreaux (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 41% The Last Command Mrs. Dickinson (Character) - 1955
91% 81% All That Heaven Allows Alida (Character) - 1955
63% 73% The Rose Tattoo Estelle Hohengarten (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 25% Target Earth Vicki Harris (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fortyniners Stella Walker (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Captain Scarface Elsa (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fighting Lawman Raquel Jackson (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desert Pursuit Mary (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Desperate Men Laura Brock (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 33% Highway 301 Mary Simms (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 22% Slaughter Trail Lorabelle Larkin (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 50% The Threat Carol (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Killed Doc Robbin? Ann Loring (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet So This Is New York Ella Goff Finch (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Glamour Girl Lorraine Royle (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leather Gloves Jane Gilbert (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Miraculous Journey Patricia (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 56% Mexican Hayride Montana the Bullfighter/Mary (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 14% Jungle Jim Dr. Hilary Parker (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Curley and His Gang in the Haunted Mansion Ann Loring (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 16% Unknown Island Carole Lane (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill Janet Smedley Adams (Character) - 1947
86% 67% Unconquered Diana (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Smooth as Silk Paula Marlowe (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 28% House of Horrors Joan Medford (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Swamp Fire Janet Hilton (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blonde Ransom Vicki Morrison (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 34% Flame of Barbary Coast Rita Dane (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 57% Strangers in the Night Dr. Leslie Ross (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Grissly's Millions Katherine Palmor Bentley (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweet Rosie O'Grady Edna Van Dyke (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Idaho Terry Grey (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tish Katherine "Kit" Bowser Sands (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 42% Grand Central Murder Sue "Butch" Custer (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bells of Capistrano Jennifer Benton (Character) - 1942
83% 61% Tarzan's New York Adventure Connie Beach (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 33% Mr. and Mrs. North Jane Wilson (Character) - 1942
70% 52% The Big Store Joan Sutton (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 62% Whistling in the Dark "Fran" Post (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blonde Inspiration Margie Blake (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Washington Melodrama Teddy Carlyle (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hullabaloo Laura Merriweather (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Golden Fleecing Lila Hanley (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keeping Company Anastasia Atherton (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 50% Three Cheers for the Irish Patricia Casey (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Captain Is a Lady Mary Peabody (Character) - 1940
40% 46% Idiot's Delight Shirley Laughlin (Character) - 1939
86% 85% Another Thin Man Lois MacFay/Linda Mills (Character) - 1939
94% 87% The Women Pat (perfume counter clerk) (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 17% Broadway Serenade Pearl (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thunder Afloat Susan Thorson (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Canary Comes Across Ann Clayton (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Youth Takes a Fling Madge (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 38% The Hardys Ride High Consuela MacNish (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue Virginia Mason (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rich Man, Poor Girl Miss Selma Willis (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 65% Snow Gets in Your Eyes June (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dramatic School Simone (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 29% Rosalie Mary Callahan (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pacific Paradise Woman Kissing Naval Officer (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Guy Kitty (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secret Valley Joan Carlo (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Violets in Spring Mary Jones (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Once There Was a Princess Hazel Boyd (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Michigan Kid Rose as a child (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet 83% Uncle Tom's Cabin Eva St. Clare (Character) - 1927

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Three Sons Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Laura Pritican (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Beth Pearson / Ranie Webster (Guest Star) 1958-1959 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trackdown Laurie Tabor (Guest Star) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Character) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 20th Century-Fox Hour Unknown (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Showcase 39 Unknown (Character) 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Four Star Playhouse Nancy Shaw (Character) 1952