Biografía

Virginia Grey

During her participation in WWII bond drives, she developed a close relationship with John Basilone, US Marine Medal of Honor recipient, who was later killed on Iwo Jima.
One of her earliest babysitters was Gloria Swanson.
Her father, Ray Grey was an actor--he was one of the Keystone Kops--and director for Mack Sennett and appeared on the silent screen with Mabel Normand, Dorothy Gish and Ben Turpin, among others. He died while Virginia was still a child.
She had an on again/off again relationship with Clark Gable in the 1940s. After his wife Carole Lombard died and he returned from military service, Clark and Virginia were often seen at restaurants and nightclubs together. Many, including Virginia herself, expected him to marry her. The tabloids were all expecting the wedding announcement. It was a great surprise when he hastily married Lady Sylvia Ashley in 1949. Virginia was heartbroken. Ashley and Gable divorced in 1952, but much to Virginia's dismay their brief romance was never rekindled. Her friends say that her hoping and waiting for Clark was the reason she never married.
Was close friends with Lana Turner and the two actresses appeared in a total of six films together -Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)(1938), Dramatic School (1938) (1938), Retrato en negro (1960)(1960), Soltero en el paraíso (1961) (1962), Mil caras tiene el amor (1965)(1965) and La mujer X (1966).

I consider myself a professional who acts--not to express my soul or elevate the cinema--but to entertain and get paid for it.
[on Barbara Stanwyck and Delito de pasión (1956)] We filmed in 1956. This was five years after I dated Bob [Robert Taylor] and she filed for divorce. I accidentally put my coat on her chair and she tore into me with a vengeance in front of everyone. She never mentioned Bob, but she resented me for going out with him. She had no other reason for hating me.
Hollywood men are a lot of phony balonies.