Virginia Grey
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.
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Virginia Grey
Filmography
Movies
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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% |
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Madame X | Mimsy (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Love Has Many Faces | Irene Talbot (Character) | - | 1965 |
93% |
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The Naked Kiss | Candy (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Black Zoo | Jenny Brooks (Character) | - | 1963 |
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Back Street | Janey nee Smith (Character) | - | 1961 |
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Bachelor in Paradise | Camille Quinlaw (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Tammy Tell Me True | Miss Jenks (Character) | - | 1961 |
40% |
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Portrait in Black | Miss Lee (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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No Name on the Bullet | Roseanne Fraden (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Years | Miss Robeson (Character) | - | 1959 |
80% |
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Crime of Passion | Sara Alidos (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Jeanne Eagels | Elsie Desmond (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Accused of Murder | Sandra Lamoreaux (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Last Command | Mrs. Dickinson (Character) | - | 1955 |
91% |
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All That Heaven Allows | Alida (Character) | - | 1955 |
67% |
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The Rose Tattoo | Estelle Hohengarten (Character) | - | 1955 |
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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 |
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Highway 301 | Mary Simms (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Slaughter Trail | Lorabelle Larkin (Character) | - | 1951 |
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The Bullfighter and the Lady | Lisbeth Flood (Character) | - | 1950 |
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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 |
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Mexican Hayride |
Montana the Bullfighter/ |
- | 1948 |
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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 |
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Unknown Island | Carole Lane (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill | Janet Smedley Adams (Character) | - | 1947 |
86% |
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Unconquered | Diana (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smooth as Silk | Paula Marlowe (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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Flame of Barbary Coast | Rita Dane (Character) | - | 1945 |
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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 |
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Grand Central Murder | Sue "Butch" Custer (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bells of Capistrano | Jennifer Benton (Character) | - | 1942 |
83% |
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Tarzan's New York Adventure | Connie Beach (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
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Mr. and Mrs. North | Jane Wilson (Character) | - | 1942 |
70% |
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The Big Store | Joan Sutton (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet |
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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 |
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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% |
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Idiot's Delight | Shirley Laughlin (Character) | - | 1939 |
86% |
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Another Thin Man |
Lois MacFay/ |
- | 1939 |
94% |
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The Women | Pat (perfume counter clerk) (Character) | - | 1939 |
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Broadway Serenade | Pearl (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thunder Afloat | Susan Thorson (Character) | - | 1939 |
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The Hardys Ride High | Consuela MacNish (Character) | - | 1938 |
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 | 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 |
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes | June (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dramatic School | Simone (Character) | - | 1938 |
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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 | Old Hutch | Ethel - Girl with Dave in Drugstore (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 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eva St. Clare (Character) | - | 1927 |
TV
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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 / |
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 |