Virginia Grey
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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. Virginia 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 left MGM in 1942, and signed with several different studios over the years, working steadily.
Grey was a regular on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing on Playhouse 90, Your Show of Shows, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Marcus Welby, M.D., Love, American Style, Burke's Law, The Virginian, Peter Gunn and many others.
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
- The Michigan Kid (1928)
- Heart to Heart (1928)
- Jazz Mad (1928)
- Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
- Palmy Days (1931)
- Secrets (1933)
- Dames (1934)
- The St. Louis Kid (1934) (scenes deleted)
- The Firebird (1934)
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
- She Gets Her Man (1935)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- Violets in Spring (1936) (short subject)
- Old Hutch (1936)
- Our Relations (1936)
- Secret Valley (1937)
- Bad Guy (1937)
- Rosalie (1937)
- The Canary Comes Across (1938) (short subject)
- Test Pilot (1938)
- Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938) (short subject)
- Snow Gets in Your Eyes (1938) (short subject)
- Ladies in Distress (1938)
- The Shopworn Angel (1938)
- Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
- Dramatic School (1938)
- Idiot's Delight (1939)
- Broadway Serenade (1939)
- The Hardys Ride High (1939)
- The Women (1939)
- Thunder Afloat (1939)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
- The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
- The Golden Fleecing (1940)
- Hullabaloo (1940)
- Keeping Company (1940)
- Blonde Inspiration (1941)
- Washington Melodrama (1941)
- The Big Store (1941)
- Whistling in the Dark (1941)
- Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
- Grand Central Murder (1942)
- Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
- Bells of Capistrano (1942)
- Tish (1942)
- Secrets of the Underground (1942)
- Idaho (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
- Strangers in the Night (1944)
- Grissly's Millions (1945)
- Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
- Blonde Ransom (1945)
- Men in Her Diary (1945)
- Smooth as Silk (1946)
- House of Horrors (1946)
- Swamp Fire (1946)
- Wyoming (1947)
- Unconquered (1947)
- So This Is New York (1947)
- Glamour Girl (1948)
- Who Killed Doc Robbin (1948)
- Unknown Island (1948)
- Leather Gloves (1948)
- Jungle Jim (1948)
- Mexican Hayride (1948)
- The Threat (1949)
- Highway 301 (1950)
- Three Desperate Men (1951)
- Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
- Slaughter Trail (1951)
- Desert Pursuit (1952)
- A Perilous Journey (1953)
- The Fighting Lawman (1953)
- Captain Scarface (1953)
- Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill (1954)
- The Forty-Niners (1954)
- Target Earth (1954)
- The Eternal Sea (1955)
- The Last Command (1955)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Accused of Murder (1956)
- Crime of Passion (1957)
- Jeanne Eagels (1957)
- The Restless Years (1958)
- No Name on the Bullet (1959)
- Portrait in Black (1960)
- Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
- Back Street (1961)
- Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
- Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Black Zoo (1963)
- The Naked Kiss (1964)
- Love Has Many Faces (1965)
- Madame X (1966)
- Rosie! (1967)
- Airport (1970)
