1910-09-29 ( 114 years old ) in 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.
Movies
Complicated Women
2003-05-06
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988-11-22
That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21
Strangers When We Meet
1960-06-29
The Reluctant Bride
1955-08-01
The Plague
1954-01-01
State Department: File 649
1949-02-11
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1948-08-20
Love, Honor and Goodbye
1945-09-15
Brazil
1944-11-30
Action in Arabia
1944-02-18
Careful, Soft Shoulders
1942-09-18
Pardon My Sarong
1942-08-07
Butch Minds the Baby
1942-03-20
Adventure in Washington
1941-05-29
The Invisible Woman
1940-12-28
Hired Wife
1940-09-13
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940-07-16
Flight Angels
1940-05-18
Stronger Than Desire
1939-06-30
Land of Liberty
1939-06-15
Hollywood Hobbies
1939-05-03
Society Lawyer
1939-03-21
Let Freedom Ring
1939-02-24
There's That Woman Again
1938-12-24
There Goes My Heart
1938-10-14
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938-07-07
Woman Against Woman
1938-06-24
Yellow Jack
1938-05-19
The First Hundred Years
1938-03-12
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938-02-25
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937-12-31
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937-09-17
Between Two Women
1937-07-09
When Love Is Young
1937-03-26
Women of Glamour
1937-03-09
Born to Dance
1936-11-27
The Great Ziegfeld
1936-04-08
The Garden Murder Case
1936-02-21
A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
Metropolitan
1935-10-17
Here Comes the Band
1935-08-30
The Murder Man
1935-07-12
Escapade
1935-07-05
Let 'em Have It
1935-05-15
Times Square Lady
1935-03-08
Shadow of Doubt
1935-02-15
Society Doctor
1935-01-25
The Mighty Barnum
1934-12-23
Dangerous Corner
1934-12-04
Jane Eyre
1934-08-15
Kongo
1932-10-01
Downstairs
1932-08-06
Winner Take All
1932-07-16
Sky Bride
1932-04-19
The Miracle Man
1932-04-01
Follow Thru
1930-09-26
Whoopee!
1930-09-26
Let's Go Native
1930-08-15
Raffles
1930-07-11
The Social Lion
1930-06-21
Safety in Numbers
1930-05-30
Paramount on Parade
1930-04-22
Young Eagles
1930-03-20
Only the Brave
1930-03-07
Slightly Scarlet
1930-02-22
The Love Parade
1930-01-18
Lilies of the Field
1930-01-05
Pointed Heels
1929-12-20
Woman Trap
1929-09-28
Hard to Get
1929-08-04
The River of Romance
1929-06-28
Fugitives
1929-01-27
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