From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVirginia Bruce (September 29, 1910 – February 24, 1982) was an American actress and singer.Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928, she moved with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California, Los Angeles when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That Up?. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by Americas Sweetheart in 1931.She returned to Hollywood in 1932, where on August 10, 1932, she married John Gilbert, her co-star in the film Downstairs. She retired briefly after the birth of their daughter Susan Ann Gilbert. The couple divorced in 1934, and Virginia returned to a hectic schedule of film appearances. Gilbert died two years later in 1936.Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard Ive Got You Under My Skin in the film Born to Dance and co-starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical The Great Ziegfeld. One of her final film appearances was in Strangers When We Meet.In 1949, Bruce starred in a daily 30-minute radio drama. Make Believe Town was an afternoon program on CBS.Bruce married her second husband, film director J. Walter Ruben, in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year. Together they had a son named Christopher (b. 1941), before Rubens death in 1942. In 1946, Bruce married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952 before divorcing again in 1964.Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 71.
Jenny
Film 1948
Mary Shannon
Film 1935
Audrey Dane
Film 1936
Joan Butterfield
Film 1938
Joan Gibson
Film 1932
Ann
Film 1932
Phyllis Walden
Film 1940
Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
Film 1930
Jenny Lind
Film 1934
Mary Norvell
Film 1940
Lorraine de Grissac
Film 1938
Joan Reed
Film 1940
Anna
Film 1932
Madge
Film 1935
Frances Blake
Film 1938
Eleanor Spencer
Film 1935
Ann Beale
Film 1934
Gerta
Film 1935
Jane Eyre
Film 1934
Maggie Adams
Film 1939
Elizabeth Flagg
Film 1939
Pat Abbott
Film 1939
Trenna
Film 1935
Nurse
Film 1929
Connie Mathers
Film 1942
Patricia Sloan
Film 1937
Nicky Henderson
Film 1944
Anne Merrill
Film 1935
Lynn Conway
Film 1938
Jane Scott
Film 1941
Self (uncredited)
Film 1939
Nurse
Film 1954
Society Girl
Film 1930
Loretta Douglas
Film 1937
Margaret Thornton
Film 1932
Florence Welford
Film 1930
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Film 1939
Nurse Stephens
Film 1937
Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Film 1930
Maris Kent
Film 1938
Alma McGregor
Film 1930
Toni Bradley
Film 1935
Southern Belle
Film 1929
Sally Reardon
Film 1938
Margaret
Film 1935
Roberta Baxter
Film 1945
Gloria Hudson
Film 1937
Susie O'Neill
Film 1942
Wanda Werner
Film 1937
Young Woman (uncredited)
Film 1929
Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Film 1930
Laura Weeks
Film 1955
Elizabeth
Film 1930
Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1929
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Film 1930
Ruth Dunning
Film 1932
Lady-in-Waiting
Film 1930
Enid Corbett
Film 1930
Herself (uncredited)
Film 1935
Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
Film 1935
Self
Film 1940
Self (archive footage)
Film 2003
Self
Film 1938
Self (archive footage)
Film 1988
Extra (uncredited)
Film 1929
Doris
Film 1930
Adele
Tv 1953
Pauline Travis
Tv 1950
Tv 1955
Dee Norman
Tv 1953
Mildred Pierce
Tv 1950
Jo Cathcart Archer
Tv 1950