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Virginia Bruce - Under My Skin (Scott O`Brien) [2008] (ISBN: 1593933142)
 

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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, Bruce began her acting career in minor roles in Hollywood in 1929. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by America`s Sweetheart in 1931.

Bruce returned to Hollywood in 1932, where 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 in 1936. That same year, Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard "I`ve Got You Under My Skin" in the film Born to Dance and costarred in the MGM musical The Great Ziegfeld.

Virginia married film director J. Walter Rubin in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone together that year, and they had one son, but she was widowed in 1942. In 1946 she married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 but remarried in 1952. Her second to last film appearance was in the 1960`s Strangers When We Meet. Her final film appearance was in Madame Wang`s in 1981.

Virginia Bruce died from cancer in Woodland Hills, California.


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posted by bruce .
Virginia Briggs (Bruce) lived one block east of me, in Fargo, ND, in1925, in a brick house. MThink her dad was an attorney. I`m 88 yrs.y folks and our home were on 6th Ave So, Fargo. She had at least one bro. whom I knew.
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posted by Robbie
VIRGINIA BRUCE`S Pacific Palisades, California, home is for sale as of Oct 7, 2007. Orig built in 1934-36. Prudential agent in the Palisades.
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  • Her daughter Susan Ann Gilbert was born in 1933. She also had a son in 1941.
    (imdb.com)
  • Was one of the 20 original 'Goldwyn Girls', along with Lucille Ball, Ann Dvorak, Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable.
    (imdb.com)
  • After Jean Harlow`s death, she was set to refilm her scenes in Saratoga (1937), but MGM decided to keep Harlow`s scenes intact as a tribute to the deceased bombshell.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_(film))
  • Played the part of Jenny Lind in The Mighty Barnum (1934) and appears prominently in The Great Ziegfeld famous production number featuring Irving Berlin`s song "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (1936).
  • After husband John Gilbert died in 1936, she made 14 movies in 16 months.
  • She was divorced from Ali Ipar for the first time in 1951 when he began his compulsory Turkish army service because Turkish law forbids commissions to men married to foreigners.
  • Was one of the original `Goldwyn Girls`, along with Lucille Ball, Jane Wyman, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, and Ann Sothern.
    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Bruce)
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