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.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
(Jenny)
The Murder Man
(Mary Shannon)
The Invisible Woman
(Kitty Carroll)
The Great Ziegfeld
(Audrey Dane)
Born to Dance
(Lucy James)
There Goes My Heart
(Joan Butterfield)
Winner Take All
(Joan Gibson)
Kongo
(Ann)
Strangers When We Meet
(Mrs. Wagner)
Action in Arabia
(Yvonne)
Hired Wife
(Phyllis Walden)
Raffles
(Gwen's Friend (uncredited))
The Mighty Barnum
(Jenny Lind)
Flight Angels
(Mary Norvell)
State Department: File 649
(Marge)
Arsène Lupin Returns
(Lorraine de Grissac)
The Garden Murder Case
(Zalia Graem)
The Man Who Talked Too Much
(Joan Reed)
Downstairs
(Anna)
Society Doctor
(Madge)
Yellow Jack
(Frances Blake)
Let 'em Have It
(Eleanor Spencer)
Dangerous Corner
(Ann Beale)
Escapade
(Gerta)
Jane Eyre
(Jane Eyre)
Let Freedom Ring
(Maggie Adams)
Stronger Than Desire
(Elizabeth Flagg)
Society Lawyer
(Pat Abbott)
Shadow of Doubt
(Trenna)
Woman Trap
(Nurse)
Careful, Soft Shoulders
(Connie Mathers)
Between Two Women
(Patricia Sloan)
Brazil
(Nicky Henderson)
Metropolitan
(Anne Merrill)
The First Hundred Years
(Lynn Conway)
Adventure in Washington
(Jane Scott)
Hollywood Hobbies
(Self (uncredited))
The Plague
(Nurse)
The Social Lion
(Society Girl)
The Bad Man of Brimstone
(Loretta Douglas)
The Miracle Man
(Margaret Thornton)
Young Eagles
(Florence Welford)
Land of Liberty
((archive footage))
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
(Nurse Stephens)
Follow Thru
(Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited))
Woman Against Woman
(Maris Kent)
Safety in Numbers
(Alma McGregor)
Times Square Lady
(Toni Bradley)
The River of Romance
(Southern Belle)
There's That Woman Again
(Sally Reardon)
Here Comes the Band
(Margaret)
That's Entertainment!
((archive footage))
Love, Honor and Goodbye
(Roberta Baxter)
Women of Glamour
(Gloria Hudson)
Butch Minds the Baby
(Susie O'Neill)
When Love Is Young
(Wanda Werner)
Hard to Get
(Young Woman (uncredited))
Let's Go Native
(Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited))
Pardon My Sarong
(Joan Marshall)
The Reluctant Bride
(Laura Weeks)
Only the Brave
(Elizabeth)
Whoopee!
(Goldwyn Girl (uncredited))
Pointed Heels
(Chorus Girl (uncredited))
Paramount on Parade
(Chorus Girl (uncredited))
Sky Bride
(Ruth Dunning)
The Love Parade
(Lady-in-Waiting)
Slightly Scarlet
(Enid Corbett)
A Dream Comes True
(Herself (uncredited))
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
(Virginia Bruce (uncredited))
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
(Self)
Complicated Women
(Self (archive footage))
Hollywood Goes to Town
(Self)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
(Self (archive footage))
Fugitives
(Extra (uncredited))
Lilies of the Field
(Doris)
General Electric Theater
(Adele)
Lux Video Theatre
(Pauline Travis)
Matinee Theater
Letter to Loretta
(Dee Norman)
Lux Video Theatre
(Mildred Pierce)
Lux Video Theatre
(Jo Cathcart Archer)