Person Details

Birthday: 1910-09-29 11:09:45

Death: 1982-02-24 11:09:45

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Minneapolis - Minnesota - USA

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Movie Involvements: 46

TV Involvements: 4


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia 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 America's 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 "I've 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 Ruben's 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.

Most Famous Work

Lux Video Theatre
Average
5

Lux Video Theatre

(1950) Mildred Pierce
The Great Ziegfeld
Average
6

The Great Ziegfeld

(1936) Audrey Dane
Letter to Loretta
Average
6

Letter to Loretta

(1953) Dee Norman
That's Entertainment!
Average
7

That's Entertainment!

(1974) (archive footage)
Strangers When We Meet
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6

Strangers When We Meet

(1960) Mrs. Wagner
Hollywood Without Make-Up
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6
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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7

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

(1948) Jenny Courtland
The Murder Man
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7

The Murder Man

(1935) Mary Shannon

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2003 Self (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1974 (archive footage)
1963 Self (archive footage)
1960 Mrs. Wagner
1955 N/A
Laura Weeks
1954 Nurse
1953 Dee Norman
Adele
1950 Pauline Travis
Jo Cathcart Archer
Mildred Pierce
1949 Marge
1948 Jenny
1945 Roberta Baxter
1944 Nicky Henderson
Yvonne Danesco
1942 Connie Mathers
Joan Marshall
Susie O'Neill
1941 Jane Scott
1940 Kitty Carroll
Phyllis Walden
Self
Joan Reed
Mary Norvell
1939 Elizabeth Flagg
(archive footage)
Herself (uncredited)
Pat Abbott
Maggie Adams
1938 Sally Reardon
Joan Butterfield
Self
Maris Kent
Frances Blake
Lynn Conway
Lorraine de Grissac
1937 Loretta Douglas
Nurse Stephens
Patricia Sloan
Wanda Werner
Gloria Hudson
1936 Lucy James
Audrey Dane
Zalia Graem
1935 Herself (uncredited)
Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
Anne Merrill
Margaret
Mary Shannon
Gerta
Eleanor Spencer
Toni Bradley
Trenna
Madge
1934 Jenny Lind
Ann Beale
Jane Eyre
1932 Ann
Anna
Joan Gibson
Ruth Dunning
Margaret Thornton
1930 Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
Society Girl
Alma McGregor
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Florence Welford
Enid Corbett
Lady-in-Waiting
Doris
1929 Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Nurse
Southern Belle
Extra (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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