Virginia Bruce

Acting

Born Sep 29, 1910

From Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Died Feb 24, 1982

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.

Virginia Bruce

Known For

Raffles

Strangers When We Meet

That's Entertainment!

Born to Dance

Kongo

The Great Ziegfeld

The Invisible Woman

Pardon My Sarong

Whoopee!

Yellow Jack

Filmography — Acting

Raffles

Strangers When We Meet

That's Entertainment!

Born to Dance

Kongo

The Great Ziegfeld

The Invisible Woman

Pardon My Sarong

Whoopee!

Yellow Jack

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

There Goes My Heart

Here Comes the Band

Follow Thru

The First Hundred Years

Hollywood Goes to Town

Shadow of Doubt

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

The Garden Murder Case

Arsène Lupin Returns

Complicated Women

Let's Go Native

Butch Minds the Baby

Land of Liberty

A Dream Comes True

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

The River of Romance

Pointed Heels

Hired Wife

The Love Parade

The Murder Man

Young Eagles

Paramount on Parade

Action in Arabia

Brazil

Between Two Women

There's That Woman Again

Times Square Lady

State Department: File 649

Escapade

Slightly Scarlet

Let 'em Have It

When Love Is Young

Flight Angels

Woman Against Woman

Hollywood Hobbies

Society Lawyer

The Social Lion

The Bad Man of Brimstone

Winner Take All

The Miracle Man

Only the Brave

Safety in Numbers

Jane Eyre

Downstairs

Careful, Soft Shoulders

Metropolitan

Stronger Than Desire

The Mighty Barnum

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

Woman Trap

The Man Who Talked Too Much

Fugitives

Let Freedom Ring

Lilies of the Field

Sky Bride