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person_profile-Virginia Bruce

Virginia Bruce Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Sep 29, 1910

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 24, 1982

Biography of

Virginia Bruce

    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.

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Filmography of

Virginia Bruce

Found 71 Movies in total

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1988

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1974

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

Strangers When We Meet

Mrs. Wagner ( Actor )

... 1960

The Reluctant Bride

Laura Weeks ( Actor )

... 1955

The Plague

Nurse ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1949

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Jenny Courtland ( Actor )

... 1948

Love, Honor and Goodbye

Roberta Baxter ( Actor )

... 1945

Brazil

Nicky Henderson ( Actor )

... 1944

Action in Arabia

Yvonne Danesco ( Actor )

... 1944

Careful, Soft Shoulders

Connie Mathers ( Actor )

... 1942

Pardon My Sarong

Joan Marshall ( Actor )

... 1942

Butch Minds the Baby

Susie O'Neill ( Actor )

... 1942

Adventure in Washington

Jane Scott ( Actor )

... 1941

The Invisible Woman

Kitty Carroll ( Actor )

... 1940

Hired Wife

Phyllis Walden ( Actor )

... 1940

The Man Who Talked Too Much

Joan Reed ( Actor )

... 1940

Flight Angels

Mary Norvell ( Actor )

... 1940

Stronger Than Desire

Elizabeth Flagg ( Actor )

... 1939

Land of Liberty

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1939

Society Lawyer

Pat Abbott ( Actor )

... 1939

Let Freedom Ring

Maggie Adams ( Actor )

... 1939

There's That Woman Again

Sally Reardon ( Actor )

... 1938

There Goes My Heart

Joan Butterfield ( Actor )

... 1938

Woman Against Woman

Maris Kent ( Actor )

... 1938

Yellow Jack

Frances Blake ( Actor )

... 1938

The First Hundred Years

Lynn Conway ( Actor )

... 1938

Arsène Lupin Returns

Lorraine de Grissac ( Actor )

... 1938

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Loretta Douglas ( Actor )

... 1937

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Nurse Stephens ( Actor )

... 1937

Between Two Women

Patricia Sloan ( Actor )

... 1937

When Love Is Young

Wanda Werner ( Actor )

... 1937

Women of Glamour

Gloria Hudson ( Actor )

... 1937

Born to Dance

Lucy James ( Actor )

... 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

Audrey Dane ( Actor )

... 1936

The Garden Murder Case

Zalia Graem ( Actor )

... 1936

Metropolitan

Anne Merrill ( Actor )

... 1935

Here Comes the Band

Margaret ( Actor )

... 1935

The Murder Man

Mary Shannon ( Actor )

... 1935

Escapade

Gerta ( Actor )

... 1935

Let 'em Have It

Eleanor Spencer ( Actor )

... 1935

Times Square Lady

Toni Bradley ( Actor )

... 1935

Shadow of Doubt

Trenna ( Actor )

... 1935

Society Doctor

Madge ( Actor )

... 1935

The Mighty Barnum

Jenny Lind ( Actor )

... 1934

Dangerous Corner

Ann Beale ( Actor )

... 1934

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre ( Actor )

... 1934

Kongo

Ann ( Actor )

... 1932

Downstairs

Anna ( Actor )

... 1932

Winner Take All

Joan Gibson ( Actor )

... 1932

Sky Bride

Ruth Dunning ( Actor )

... 1932

The Miracle Man

Margaret Thornton ( Actor )

... 1932

Follow Thru

Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Whoopee!

Goldwyn Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Let's Go Native

Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Raffles

Gwen's Friend (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

The Social Lion

Society Girl ( Actor )

... 1930

Safety in Numbers

Alma McGregor ( Actor )

... 1930

Paramount on Parade

Chorus Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Young Eagles

Florence Welford ( Actor )

... 1930

Only the Brave

Elizabeth ( Actor )

... 1930

Slightly Scarlet

Enid Corbett ( Actor )

... 1930

The Love Parade

Lady-in-Waiting ( Actor )

... 1930

Lilies of the Field

Doris ( Actor )

... 1930

Pointed Heels

Chorus Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

Woman Trap

Nurse ( Actor )

... 1929

Hard to Get

Young Woman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929

The River of Romance

Southern Belle ( Actor )

... 1929

Fugitives

Extra (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1929