Virginia Bruce
Virginia Bruce (born Helen Virginia Briggs; 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.
Fotos
Películas (75)
Complicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Strangers When We Meet
1960 · Mrs. Wagner
The Reluctant Bride
1955 · Laura Weeks
The Plague
1954 · Nurse
State Department: File 649
1949 · Marge
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948 · Jenny
Love, Honor and Goodbye
1945 · Roberta Baxter
Brazil
1944 · Nicky Henderson
Action in Arabia
1944 · Yvonne
Careful, Soft Shoulders
1942 · Connie Mathers
Pardon My Sarong
1942 · Joan Marshall
Butch Minds the Baby
1942 · Susie O'Neill
Adventure in Washington
1941 · Jane Scott
The Invisible Woman
1940 · Kitty Carroll
Hired Wife
1940 · Phyllis Walden
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Self
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · Joan Reed
Flight Angels
1940 · Mary Norvell
Stronger Than Desire
1939 · Elizabeth Flagg
Land of Liberty
1939 · (archive footage)
Hollywood Hobbies
1939 · Self (uncredited)
Society Lawyer
1939 · Pat Abbott
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · Maggie Adams
There's That Woman Again
1938 · Sally Reardon
There Goes My Heart
1938 · Joan Butterfield
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Self
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Maris Kent
Yellow Jack
1938 · Frances Blake
The First Hundred Years
1938 · Lynn Conway
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · Lorraine de Grissac
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937 · Loretta Douglas
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · Nurse Stephens
Between Two Women
1937 · Patricia Sloan
When Love Is Young
1937 · Wanda Werner
Women of Glamour
1937 · Gloria Hudson
Born to Dance
1936 · Lucy James
The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · Audrey Dane
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Zalia Graem
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
Metropolitan
1935 · Anne Merrill
Here Comes the Band
1935 · Margaret
The Murder Man
1935 · Mary Shannon
Escapade
1935 · Gerta
Let 'em Have It
1935 · Eleanor Spencer
Times Square Lady
1935 · Toni Bradley
Shadow of Doubt
1935 · Trenna
Society Doctor
1935 · Madge
The Mighty Barnum
1934 · Jenny Lind
Dangerous Corner
1934 · Ann Beale
Jane Eyre
1934 · Jane Eyre
Kongo
1932 · Ann
Downstairs
1932 · Anna
Winner Take All
1932 · Joan Gibson
Sky Bride
1932 · Ruth Dunning
The Miracle Man
1932 · Margaret Thornton
Follow Thru
1930 · Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Whoopee!
1930 · Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Let's Go Native
1930 · Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Raffles
1930 · Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
The Social Lion
1930 · Society Girl
Safety in Numbers
1930 · Alma McGregor
Paramount on Parade
1930 · Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Young Eagles
1930 · Florence Welford
Only the Brave
1930 · Elizabeth
Slightly Scarlet
1930 · Enid Corbett
Lilies of the Field
1930 · Doris
Pointed Heels
1929 · Chorus Girl (uncredited)
The Love Parade
1929 · Lady-in-Waiting
Woman Trap
1929 · Nurse
Hard to Get
1929 · Young Woman (uncredited)
The River of Romance
1929 · Southern Belle
Fugitives
1929 · Extra (uncredited)
