Acting · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · Born September 29, 1910
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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2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieJames Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieStrangers When We Meet
1960
as Mrs. Wagner
TVMatinee Theater
1955
MovieThe Reluctant Bride
1955
as Laura Weeks
MovieThe Plague
1954
as Nurse
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1953
as Dee Norman
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Adele
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Pauline Travis
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1949
as Marge
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1948
as Jenny
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1945
as Roberta Baxter
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1944
as Nicky Henderson
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1944
as Yvonne
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1942
as Connie Mathers
MoviePardon My Sarong
1942
as Joan Marshall
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1942
as Susie O'Neill
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1941
as Jane Scott
MovieThe Invisible Woman
1940
as Kitty Carroll
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1940
as Phyllis Walden
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1940
as Self
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1940
as Joan Reed
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1940
as Mary Norvell
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1939
as Elizabeth Flagg
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1939
as (archive footage)
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1939
as Self (uncredited)
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1939
as Pat Abbott
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1939
as Maggie Adams
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1938
as Sally Reardon
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1938
as Joan Butterfield
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1938
as Self
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1938
as Maris Kent
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1938
as Frances Blake
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1938
as Lynn Conway
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1938
as Lorraine de Grissac
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1937
as Loretta Douglas
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1937
as Nurse Stephens
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1937
as Patricia Sloan
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1937
as Wanda Werner
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as Gloria Hudson
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1936
as Lucy James
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1936
as Audrey Dane
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1936
as Zalia Graem
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1935
as Herself (uncredited)
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1935
as Virginia Bruce (uncredited)
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1935
as Anne Merrill
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1935
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1935
as Mary Shannon
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1935
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1935
as Eleanor Spencer
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1935
as Toni Bradley
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as Trenna
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1935
as Madge
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1934
as Jenny Lind
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1934
as Ann Beale
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1934
as Jane Eyre
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1932
as Ann
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1932
as Anna
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1932
as Joan Gibson
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1932
as Ruth Dunning
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1932
as Margaret Thornton
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1930
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
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1930
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
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1930
as Wendell Sr.'s Secretary (uncredited)
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1930
as Gwen's Friend (uncredited)
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1930
as Society Girl
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1930
as Alma McGregor
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1930
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
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1930
as Florence Welford
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1930
as Elizabeth
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1930
as Enid Corbett
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1930
as Doris
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1929
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
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1929
as Lady-in-Waiting
MovieWoman Trap
1929
as Nurse
MovieHard to Get
1929
as Young Woman (uncredited)
MovieThe River of Romance
1929
as Southern Belle
MovieFugitives
1929
as Extra (uncredited)
