Happy Birthday, Virginia Grey (1917-2004)

Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927). After a few more films as a child actress, she left the business to finish her schooling. Returning to films as an adult in the 1930s, she started out getting extra work and bit parts, but soon graduated to speaking roles and was eventually signed to a contract by MGM. The studio gave her leading parts in "B" pictures and supporting roles in "A" pictures. She left MGM in 1942 and went out on her own, working at almost every studio in Hollywood. She worked steadily in both films and TV, and retired from the business in 1970.

Her Film-Noir credits include Grand Central Murder (1942), The Threat (1949), Highway 301 (1950) and Crime of Passion (1957).

Bad Guy (1937)

Bad Guy (1937) with Bruce Cabot


Bruce Cabot, Jean Chatburn, Virginia Grey and Edward Norris in
Bad Guy (1937)


The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford


Thunder Afloat (1939) with Wallace Beery


with ChesterMorris in Thunder Afloat (1939)


with Joseph Schildkraut and Clark Gable in Idiot's Delight (1939)


Charles Coburn, Dan Dailey and Virginia Grey in
The Captain Is a Lady (1940)


Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, Dan Dailey and Virginia Grey in
The Captain Is a Lady (1940)


with Nat Pendleton and Leon Errol in The Golden Fleecing (1940)


The Big Store (1941)


with Tony Martin and Douglass Dumbrille in
The Big Store (1941)


The Big Store (1941) with Tony Martin and Chico Marx


Strangers in the Night (1944)


Smooth as Silk (1946)



Smooth as Silk (1946) with Kent Taylor


Smooth as Silk (1946)


House of Horrors (1946) with Martin Kosleck


Who Killed Doc Robbin (1948)


So This Is New York (1948)



The Threat (1949)


The Threat (1949)


The Threat (1949) with Charles McGraw


Highway 301 (1950)


Highway 301 (1950) with Steve Cochran


with Steve Cochran and Gaby Andre in Highway 301 (1950)



Highway 301 (1950) with Steve Cochran


Highway 301 (1950)


Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)


Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) with Katy Jurado


The Fighting Lawman (1953) with Wayne Morris


The Forty-Niners (1954)


All That Heaven Allows (1955) with Jane Wyman