Virginia Bruce
Acting
Born 1910-09-29
Died 1982-02-24
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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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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Acting
59 credits
Lux Video Theatre
Letter to Loretta
The Great Ziegfeld
That's Entertainment!
There's That Woman Again
General Electric Theater
The Invisible Woman
Society Doctor
Complicated Women
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Careful, Soft Shoulders
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Born to Dance
Land of Liberty
The Murder Man
Downstairs
Strangers When We Meet
The Love Parade
Action in Arabia
Pardon My Sarong
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Pointed Heels
Paramount on Parade
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Times Square Lady
The Plague
The River of Romance
Jane Eyre
The Man Who Talked Too Much
There Goes My Heart
Hollywood Goes to Town
Stronger Than Desire
Let Freedom Ring
Love, Honor and Goodbye
A Dream Comes True
Whoopee!
Follow Thru
Women of Glamour
Sky Bride
Brazil
Lilies of the Field
Butch Minds the Baby
Arsène Lupin Returns
Hollywood Hobbies
Between Two Women
Hired Wife
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Yellow Jack
The First Hundred Years
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
The Garden Murder Case
The Miracle Man
Safety in Numbers
The Mighty Barnum
Winner Take All
Society Lawyer
State Department: File 649
Dangerous Corner
Flight Angels
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