Virginia Grey
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.136 |
| Birthday | 1917-03-22 |
| Place of Birth | Edendale, California, USA |
| Also Known As |
1956
Crime of Passion
6.2/51
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1970
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6.4/399
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1965
Love Has Many Faces
4.7/7
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1954
Target Earth
5.8/25
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1963
Black Zoo
5.6/9
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1939
The Women
7.1/157
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1948
Mexican Hayride
5.6/13
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1964
The Naked Kiss
7/182
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1941
The Big Store
6.2/67
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1942
Tarzan's New York Adventure
6.3/92
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1945
Flame of Barbary Coast
5.6/17
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Flame of Barbary Coast
1958
The Great Gatsby
0/0
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1948
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
4/9
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1950
Highway 301
6.6/23
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Highway 301
1939
Another Thin Man
7.142/123
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1966
Madame X
6.6/39
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1944
Strangers in the Night
6.3/23
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1955
All That Heaven Allows
7.3/307
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All That Heaven Allows
1956
Accused of Murder
4.5/14
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Accused of Murder
1937
Rosalie
5.5/6
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Rosalie
1961
Tammy Tell Me True
5.7/7
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Tammy Tell Me True
1960
Portrait in Black
5.7/24
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Portrait in Black
1942
Grand Central Murder
5.9/22
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1955
The Rose Tattoo
6.9/78
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The Rose Tattoo
1959
No Name on the Bullet
6.6/74
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No Name on the Bullet
1961
Bachelor in Paradise
6.5/22
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1947
Unconquered
6.2/55
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1949
The Threat
5.848/23
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1941
Whistling in the Dark
5.8/14
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1946
House of Horrors
6.2/36
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1951
Bullfighter and the Lady
5.9/11
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Bullfighter and the Lady
1939
Thunder Afloat
5.9/5
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Thunder Afloat
1948
So This Is New York
6/5
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1942
Mr. and Mrs. North
4.5/6
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1948
Jungle Jim
5.3/9
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1958
The Restless Years
0/0
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1957
Jeanne Eagels
6.3/11
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1951
Slaughter Trail
3.8/5
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1953
A Perilous Journey
4/4
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A Perilous Journey
1951
Three Desperate Men
5.5/2
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Three Desperate Men
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.2/4
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1946
Smooth as Silk
4.9/8
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1940
The Golden Fleecing
5.3/6
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1948
Unknown Island
5.2/19
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1943
Idaho
5.7/3
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1941
Blonde Inspiration
5.4/6
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1938
Dramatic School
6.2/4
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1940
Hullabaloo
4/1
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Hullabaloo
1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
5.9/8
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1967
Rosie!
0/0
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Rosie!
1937
Secret Valley
4/1
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1937
Bad Guy
6/1
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Bad Guy
1940
Three Cheers for the Irish
6.3/3
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Three Cheers for the Irish
1955
The Eternal Sea
6.4/7
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The Eternal Sea
1961
Back Street
5.8/15
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Back Street
1948
Miraculous Journey
4.667/3
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Miraculous Journey
1954
The Forty-Niners
5.2/5
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.
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The Forty-Niners
1934
Dames
6.3/34
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Dames
1941
Washington Melodrama
5/4
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Washington Melodrama
1948
Leather Gloves
0/0
A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
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2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
6.6/8
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest....
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
1928
The Michigan Kid
0/0
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The Michigan Kid
1936
Old Hutch
0/0
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
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Old Hutch
1942
Tish
5.7/3
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
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Tish
1928
Heart to Heart
0/0
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as...
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Heart to Heart
1940
Keeping Company
6.4/4
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Keeping Company
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1/1
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
6/2
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the sto...
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.3/62
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1934
Flirtation Walk
5.5/13
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...
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Flirtation Walk
1936
Our Relations
6.891/101
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Our Relations
1938
Test Pilot
6.5/69
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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Test Pilot
1953
Fighting Lawman
6/1
A US Marshal hunts down three bank robbers that are living under new identities.
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Fighting Lawman
1939
Idiot's Delight
6.1/15
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Idiot's Delight
1939
The Hardys Ride High
6/3
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million...
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The Hardys Ride High
1942
Bells of Capistrano
6/2
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Bells of Capistrano
1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
6/6
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1952
Desert Pursuit
5.7/3
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Desert Pursuit
1946
Swamp Fire
5.4/9
Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance (Ca...
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Swamp Fire
1955
The Last Command
6.4/9
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't h...
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The Last Command
1938
The Shopworn Angel
7.1/16
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...
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The Shopworn Angel
1943
Stage Door Canteen
6.1/14
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Stage Door Canteen
1938
Ladies in Distress
0/0
Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of...
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Ladies in Distress
1945
Blonde Ransom
0/0
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randa...
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Blonde Ransom
1938
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
8/2
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Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
1942
Secrets of the Underground
0/1
With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.
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Secrets of the Underground
1945
Grissly's Millions
6/1
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
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Grissly's Millions
1940
The Captain Is a Lady
6/1
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single...
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The Captain Is a Lady
1948
Glamour Girl
0/0
A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.
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Glamour Girl
1953
Captain Scarface
4.7/8
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and...
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Captain Scarface
1931
Palmy Days
7/7
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychi...
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Palmy Days
1931
Misbehaving Ladies
0/0
Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the d...
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Misbehaving Ladies
1950
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
0/0
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his he...
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Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
7/2
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The Romance of Celluloid
1933
Secrets
5.1/11
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Secrets
1947
Wyoming
6/3
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
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Wyoming
1936
Violets in Spring
5.3/3
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Violets in Spring
1939
From the Ends of the Earth
0/0
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at t...
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From the Ends of the Earth
1927
Uncle Tom's Cabin
6.9/9
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
1945
Men in Her Diary
0/0
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of...
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Men in Her Diary
1938
The Canary Comes Across
3.5/2
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receive...
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The Canary Comes Across
2019
Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turner
9.5/2
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1975
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
0/0
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
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The Lives of Jenny Dolan
1937
Pacific Paradise
0/0
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Pacific Paradise
1935
Don't Bet on Blondes
5/4
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his da...
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