Complicated Women
2003 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Virginia Bruce
1910-09-29
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.
Filmography
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Movie
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Strangers When We Meet
1960 · Movie
as Mrs. Wagner
The Reluctant Bride
1955 · Movie
as Laura Weeks
Matinee Theater
1955 · TV Show
The Plague
1954 · Movie
as Nurse
General Electric Theater
1953 · TV Show
as Adele
Letter to Loretta
1953 · TV Show
as Dee Norman
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · TV Show
as Pauline Travis, Mildred Pierce, Jo Cathcart Archer
State Department: File 649
1949 · Movie
as Marge
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948 · Movie
as Jenny
Love, Honor and Goodbye
1945 · Movie
as Roberta Baxter
Action in Arabia
1944 · Movie
as Yvonne
Brazil
1944 · Movie
as Nicky Henderson
Careful, Soft Shoulders
1942 · Movie
as Connie Mathers
Butch Minds the Baby
1942 · Movie
as Susie O'Neill
Pardon My Sarong
1942 · Movie
as Joan Marshall
Adventure in Washington
1941 · Movie
as Jane Scott
The Invisible Woman
1940 · Movie
as Kitty Carroll
Hired Wife
1940 · Movie
as Phyllis Walden
Flight Angels
1940 · Movie
as Mary Norvell
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 · Movie
as Joan Reed
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Movie
as Self
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · Movie
as Maggie Adams
Stronger Than Desire
1939 · Movie
as Elizabeth Flagg
Society Lawyer
1939 · Movie
as Pat Abbott
Hollywood Hobbies
1939 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
Land of Liberty
1939 · Movie
as (archive footage)
There Goes My Heart
1938 · Movie
as Joan Butterfield
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938 · Movie
as Lorraine de Grissac
Yellow Jack
1938 · Movie
as Frances Blake
The First Hundred Years
1938 · Movie
as Lynn Conway
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Movie
as Maris Kent
There's That Woman Again
1938 · Movie
as Sally Reardon
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Movie
as Self
Between Two Women
1937 · Movie
as Patricia Sloan
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937 · Movie
as Loretta Douglas
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · Movie
as Nurse Stephens
Women of Glamour
1937 · Movie
as Gloria Hudson
When Love Is Young
1937 · Movie
as Wanda Werner
The Great Ziegfeld
1936 · Movie
as Audrey Dane
Born to Dance
1936 · Movie
as Lucy James
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Movie
as Zalia Graem
The Murder Man
1935 · Movie
as Mary Shannon
Society Doctor
1935 · Movie
as Madge
Let 'em Have It
1935 · Movie
as Eleanor Spencer
Escapade
1935 · Movie
as Gerta
Shadow of Doubt
1935 · Movie
as Trenna
Metropolitan
1935 · Movie
as Anne Merrill
Times Square Lady
1935 · Movie
as Toni Bradley
Here Comes the Band
1935 · Movie
as Margaret
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Movie
as Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Movie
as Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
The Mighty Barnum
1934 · Movie
as Jenny Lind
Dangerous Corner
1934 · Movie
as Ann Beale
Jane Eyre
1934 · Movie
as Jane Eyre
Winner Take All
1932 · Movie
as Joan Gibson
Kongo
1932 · Movie
as Ann
Downstairs
1932 · Movie
as Anna
The Miracle Man
1932 · Movie
as Margaret Thornton
Sky Bride
1932 · Movie
as Ruth Dunning
Raffles
1930 · Movie
as Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
The Social Lion
1930 · Movie
as Society Girl
Young Eagles
1930 · Movie
as Florence Welford
Follow Thru
1930 · Movie
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
Safety in Numbers
1930 · Movie
as Alma McGregor
Let's Go Native
1930 · Movie
as Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Only the Brave
1930 · Movie
as Elizabeth
Whoopee!
1930 · Movie
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Paramount on Parade
1930 · Movie
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Slightly Scarlet
1930 · Movie
as Enid Corbett
Lilies of the Field
1930 · Movie
as Doris
Woman Trap
1929 · Movie
as Nurse
The River of Romance
1929 · Movie
as Southern Belle
Hard to Get
1929 · Movie
as Young Woman (uncredited)
Pointed Heels
1929 · Movie
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
The Love Parade
1929 · Movie
as Lady-in-Waiting
Fugitives
1929 · Movie
as Extra (uncredited)
