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.

Filmography

• 2018The Green Fog
• 1975The Lives of Jenny Dolan — Landlady
• 1974That's Entertainment! — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1970Airport — Mrs. Schultz
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Mrs. Cavanaugh
• 1967Rosie! — Mrs. Peters
• 1966Madame X — Mimsy
• 1965Love Has Many Faces — Irene Talbot
• 1964The Naked Kiss — Candy
• 1963Black Zoo — Jenny Brooks
• Burke's Law — Elaine Barrows
• The Virginian — Laura Pritican
• 1961Bachelor in Paradise — Camille Quinlaw
• 1961Back Street — Janey nee Smith
• 1961Tammy Tell Me True — Miss Jenks
• My Three Sons
• 1960Portrait in Black — Miss Lee
• 1959No Name on the Bullet — Roseanne Fraden
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Connie Vaccarous
• Peter Gunn
• 1958The Great Gatsby — Myrtle Wilson
• 1958The Restless Years — Miss Robson
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Zelda
• Yancy Derringer — Emily Dubois
• 1957Jeanne Eagels — Elsie Desmond
• Trackdown
• 1956Accused of Murder — Sandra Lamoreaux
• 1956Crime of Passion — Sara Alidas
• 1955All That Heaven Allows — Alida Anderson
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — Jane Trask
• 1955The Eternal Sea — Dorothy Buracker
• 1955The Last Command — Mrs. Dickinson
• The Millionaire — Iris Millar, Marjorie Martinson
• 1955The Rose Tattoo — Estelle Hohengarten
• Climax! — Edna
• 1954Target Earth — Vicki Harris
• 1954The Forty-Niners — Stella Walker
• 1953A Perilous Journey — Abby
• 1953Captain Scarface — Elsa
• 1953Fighting Lawman — Raquel Jackson
• General Electric Theater — Mrs. Bennett
• 1952Desert Pursuit — Mary Smith
• Four Star Playhouse — Nancy Shaw, Angela
• The Ford Television Theatre
• 1951Bullfighter and the Lady — Lisbeth Flood
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Laura Ward
• 1951Slaughter Trail — Lorabelle Larkin
• 1951Three Desperate Men — Laura Brock
• 1950Highway 301 — Mary Simms
• 1950Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill — Janet Smedley Adams
• Your Show of Shows
• 1949The Threat — Carol
• 1948Glamour Girl — Lorraine Royle
• 1948Jungle Jim — Dr. Hilary Parker
• 1948Leather Gloves — Jane Gilbert
• 1948Mexican Hayride — Mary / Montana
• 1948Miraculous Journey — Patricia
• 1948So This Is New York — Ella Finch
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Blanche Bickerson
• 1948Unknown Island — Carole Lane
• 1948Who Killed Doc Robbin? — Ann Loring
• 1947Unconquered — Diana
• 1947Wyoming — Lila Regan
• 1946House of Horrors — Joan Medford
• 1946Smooth as Silk — Paula Marlowe
• 1946Swamp Fire — Janet Hilton
• 1945Blonde Ransom — Vicki Morrison
• 1945Flame of Barbary Coast — Rita Dane
• 1945Grissly's Millions — Katherine Palmor Bentley
• 1945Men in Her Diary — Diana Lee
• 1944Strangers in the Night — Dr. Leslie Ross
• 1943Idaho — Terry
• 1943Stage Door Canteen — Virginia Grey
• 1943Sweet Rosie O'Grady — Edna Van Dyke
• 1942Bells of Capistrano — Jennifer Benton
• 1942Grand Central Murder — Sue 'Butch' Custer
• 1942Mr. and Mrs. North — Jane Wilson
• 1942Secrets of the Underground — Terry Parker
• 1942Tarzan's New York Adventure — Connie Beach
• 1942Tish — Katherine 'Kit' Bowser Sands
• 1941Blonde Inspiration — Margie Blake, Phil's Secretary
• 1941The Big Store — Joan Sutton
• 1941Washington Melodrama — Teddy Carlyle
• 1941Whistling in the Dark — 'Fran' Post
• 1940Hullabaloo — Laura Merriweather
• 1940Keeping Company — Anastasia Atherton
• 1940The Captain is a Lady — Mary Peabody
• 1940The Golden Fleecing — Lila Hanley
• 1940Three Cheers for the Irish — Patricia Casey
• 1939Another Thin Man — Lois MacFay
• 1939Broadway Serenade — Pearl
• 1939Idiot's Delight — Shirley Laughlin
• 1939The Hardys Ride High — Consuela MacNish
• 1939The Women — Pat
• 1939Thunder Afloat — Susan Thorson
• 1938Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue — Virginia Mason
• 1938Dramatic School — Simone
• 1938Ladies in Distress — Sally
• 1938Rich Man, Poor Girl — Selma Willis
• 1938Snow Gets in Your Eyes — June
• 1938Test Pilot — Sarah
• 1938The Canary Comes Across — Ann Clayton
• 1938The Shopworn Angel — Chorus Girl #1
• 1938Youth Takes a Fling — Madge
• 1937Bad Guy — Kitty Ryan
• 1937Pacific Paradise — Woman Kissing Naval Officer (uncredited)
• 1937Rosalie — Mary Callahan
• 1937Secret Valley — Joan Carlo
• 1936Old Hutch — Ethel
• 1936Our Relations — Pirate's Club Customer (uncredited)
• 1936Violets in Spring — Mary Jones
• 1935Don't Bet on Blondes — Girl with Henry (Uncredited)
• 1934Dames — Chorus Girl (uncredited)
• 1934Flirtation Walk — Chorus Girl (uncredited)
• 1933Secrets — Audrey Carlton as a Child (uncredited)
• 1931Misbehaving Ladies — Hazel Boyd
• 1931Palmy Days — Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
• 1928Heart to Heart — Hazel Boyd
• 1928The Michigan Kid — Rose, as a child
• 1927Uncle Tom's Cabin — Evangeline 'Eva' St. Clare

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2002Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star — Self - Actress
• 1939From the Ends of the Earth — Self
• 1937The Romance of Celluloid — Self