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Virginia Bruce
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, Minn…
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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
Complicated Women
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
That's Entertainment!
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1960
Strangers When We Meet
Movie Mrs. Wagner
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1955
Matinee Theater
TV show
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1955
The Reluctant Bride
Movie Laura Weeks
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1954
The Plague
Movie Nurse
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1953
Letter to Loretta
TV show Dee Norman
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Adele
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Pauline Travis
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1949
State Department: File 649
Movie Marge
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1948
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Movie Jenny
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1945
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Movie Roberta Baxter
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1944
Brazil
Movie Nicky Henderson
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1944
Action in Arabia
Movie Yvonne
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1942
Careful, Soft Shoulders
Movie Connie Mathers
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1942
Pardon My Sarong
Movie Joan Marshall
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1942
Butch Minds the Baby
Movie Susie O'Neill
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1941
Adventure in Washington
Movie Jane Scott
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1940
The Invisible Woman
Movie Kitty Carroll
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1940
Hired Wife
Movie Phyllis Walden
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1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie Self
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1940
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Movie Joan Reed
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1940
Flight Angels
Movie Mary Norvell
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1939
Stronger Than Desire
Movie Elizabeth Flagg
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1939
Land of Liberty
Movie (archive footage)
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1939
Hollywood Hobbies
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1939
Society Lawyer
Movie Pat Abbott
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1939
Let Freedom Ring
Movie Maggie Adams
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1938
There's That Woman Again
Movie Sally Reardon
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1938
There Goes My Heart
Movie Joan Butterfield
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1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie Self
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1938
Woman Against Woman
Movie Maris Kent
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1938
Yellow Jack
Movie Frances Blake
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1938
The First Hundred Years
Movie Lynn Conway
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1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
Movie Lorraine de Grissac
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1937
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie Loretta Douglas
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1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie Nurse Stephens
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1937
Between Two Women
Movie Patricia Sloan
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1937
When Love Is Young
Movie Wanda Werner
