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.

Kino niedostępny od Virginia Bruce

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Jenny

Film 1948

The Murder Man

Mary Shannon

Film 1935

The Great Ziegfeld

Audrey Dane

Film 1936

There Goes My Heart

Joan Butterfield

Film 1938

Winner Take All

Joan Gibson

Film 1932

Kongo

Ann

Film 1932

Hired Wife

Phyllis Walden

Film 1940

Raffles

Gwen's Friend (uncredited)

Film 1930

The Mighty Barnum

Jenny Lind

Film 1934

Flight Angels

Mary Norvell

Film 1940

Arsène Lupin Returns

Lorraine de Grissac

Film 1938

The Man Who Talked Too Much

Joan Reed

Film 1940

Downstairs

Anna

Film 1932

Society Doctor

Madge

Film 1935

Yellow Jack

Frances Blake

Film 1938

Let 'em Have It

Eleanor Spencer

Film 1935

Dangerous Corner

Ann Beale

Film 1934

Escapade

Gerta

Film 1935

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Film 1934

Let Freedom Ring

Maggie Adams

Film 1939

Stronger Than Desire

Elizabeth Flagg

Film 1939

Society Lawyer

Pat Abbott

Film 1939

Shadow of Doubt

Trenna

Film 1935

Woman Trap

Nurse

Film 1929

Careful, Soft Shoulders

Connie Mathers

Film 1942

Between Two Women

Patricia Sloan

Film 1937

Brazil

Nicky Henderson

Film 1944

Metropolitan

Anne Merrill

Film 1935

The First Hundred Years

Lynn Conway

Film 1938

Adventure in Washington

Jane Scott

Film 1941

Hollywood Hobbies

Self (uncredited)

Film 1939

The Plague

Nurse

Film 1954

The Social Lion

Society Girl

Film 1930

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Loretta Douglas

Film 1937

The Miracle Man

Margaret Thornton

Film 1932

Young Eagles

Florence Welford

Film 1930

Land of Liberty

(archive footage)

Film 1939

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Nurse Stephens

Film 1937

Follow Thru

Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)

Film 1930

Woman Against Woman

Maris Kent

Film 1938

Safety in Numbers

Alma McGregor

Film 1930

Times Square Lady

Toni Bradley

Film 1935

The River of Romance

Southern Belle

Film 1929

There's That Woman Again

Sally Reardon

Film 1938

Here Comes the Band

Margaret

Film 1935

Love, Honor and Goodbye

Roberta Baxter

Film 1945

Women of Glamour

Gloria Hudson

Film 1937

Butch Minds the Baby

Susie O'Neill

Film 1942

When Love Is Young

Wanda Werner

Film 1937

Hard to Get

Young Woman (uncredited)

Film 1929

Let's Go Native

Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)

Film 1930

The Reluctant Bride

Laura Weeks

Film 1955

Only the Brave

Elizabeth

Film 1930

Whoopee!

Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

Pointed Heels

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1929

Paramount on Parade

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Film 1930

Sky Bride

Ruth Dunning

Film 1932

The Love Parade

Lady-in-Waiting

Film 1930

Slightly Scarlet

Enid Corbett

Film 1930

A Dream Comes True

Herself (uncredited)

Film 1935

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Virginia Bruce (uncredited)

Film 1935

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Self

Film 1940

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

Film 2003

Hollywood Goes to Town

Self

Film 1938

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage)

Film 1988

Fugitives

Extra (uncredited)

Film 1929

Lilies of the Field

Doris

Film 1930

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Virginia Bruce

General Electric Theater

Adele

Tv 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Pauline Travis

Tv 1950

Matinee Theater

Tv 1955

Letter to Loretta

Dee Norman

Tv 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Mildred Pierce

Tv 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Jo Cathcart Archer

Tv 1950