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Virginia Grey

Virginia Grey

Actor · 1917 – 2004 · Edendale, California, USA

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.

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  • Movie6.5

    Airport

    1970 · 466 votes

  • Movie7.3

    All That Heaven Allows

    1955 · 349 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Women

    1939 · 183 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Fighting Lawman

    1953 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Unconquered

    1947 · 67 votes

  • Movie7.4

    That's Entertainment!

    1974 · 71 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Naked Kiss

    1964 · 212 votes

  • Movie6.6

    No Name on the Bullet

    1959 · 91 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Portrait in Black

    1960 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Back Street

    1961 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Last Command

    1955 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Madame X

    1966 · 44 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie6.3

    The Big Store

    1941 · 77 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Jeanne Eagels

    1957 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Bachelor in Paradise

    1961 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Rosalie

    1937 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Another Thin Man

    1939 · 145 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Dames

    1934 · 43 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.9

    The Rose Tattoo

    1955 · 89 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Test Pilot

    1938 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Idiot's Delight

    1939 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Mexican Hayride

    1948 · 15 votes

Series18

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.6

    Marcus Welby, M.D.

    1969 · 20 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.2

    Yancy Derringer

    1958 · 11 votes

  • TV6.6

    Peter Gunn

    1958 · 26 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV7.8
  • TV6.0
  • TV6.8
  • TV7.3

    Your Show of Shows

    1950 · 4 votes

  • TV6.9

    Trackdown

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV6.8
  • TV7.2