Virginia Field
Birthday: 1917-11-04 | Place of Birth: London, England, UKFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Margaret St. John Field (4 November 1917 – 2 January 1992), known professionally as Virginia Field, was a British-born film actress. The niece of stage actress and director Auriol Lee, she took her first film role as a teenager in the 1934 British mystery-comedy The Lady Is Willing before signing a Hollywood contract. Field first went to the US to appear in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). In the late 1930s, she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Fox's Mr. Moto film series. Field then played a ballerina alongside Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge (1940), an estranged wife in Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) and Stuart-era performer Nell Gwyn in the historical Western Hudson's Bay (1941). She also performed in the noir genre, with films like Repeat Performance (1947), Dial 1119 (1950) and Appointment with a Shadow (1957). She made frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and '60s. Field married three times. Her spouses included actors Willard Parker and Paul Douglas, with whom she had a daughter, as well as composer and musician Howard Grode. She died of cancer on 2 January 1992 and was cremated, with her ashes scattered at sea. Field has a star at 1751 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, dedicated 8 February 1960.
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Acting
Role
as Peggy
as Mrs. Katie Sommers
as Eleanor Carter aka Dixie West
as Florence Knapp
as Rosanna
as Kay Stoddard
as Phyllis Reynolds
as Freddy
as Morgan Le Fay
as Miriam Allerton Lucas
as Claire
as Gladys Hayden
as Gloria
as Paula Costello
as Rose Bridges
as Jo Ainsley
as Lida Adams
as Gloria Van Ness
as Elinor Harris
as Kitty
as Nell Gwyn
as Abbie Bragdon
as Billie Graham
as Connie Porter
as Eleanor Kirke
as Lola De Vere
as Mabel
as Phyllis Ransome
as Evelyn Gray
as Gloria Danton/Tanya Boriv
