Nan Grey

Nan Grey

Born: July 25, 1918
Died: July 25, 1993
in Houston, Texas, USA
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Grey was born Eschal Loleet Grey Miller in Houston, Texas. In 1934, she went to Hollywood with her mother for a holiday. She was persuaded by a friend to take a screen test and ended up in pictures. She attended the school that Universal Studios operated for children who had film contracts. Grey's screen debut was in 1934 in Warner Brothers' Firebird. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1936 film Sea Spoilers. Grey appeared in the Universal Monsters films Dracula's Daughter (1936) and The Invisible Man Returns (1940). She also appeared in the popular 1936 musical comedy Three Smart Girls as well as the 1939 sequel Three Smart Girls Grow Up.

Grey played Kathy Marshall in the NBC radio soap opera Those We Love 1938-1945. She also played in The Lux Radio Theatre, November 8, 1937 episode, She Loves Me Not with Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, and Sterling Holloway.

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Title: Rawhide
Character: Carlie Evans
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Under Age
Title: Under Age
Character: Jane Baird
Released: April 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.
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A Little Bit of Heaven
Title: A Little Bit of Heaven
Character: Janet Loring
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
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Margie
Title: Margie
Character: Margie
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Millie
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Sandy Is a Lady
Title: Sandy Is a Lady
Character: Mary Phillips
Released: May 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Phoebe Pyncheon
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Helen Manson
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Lady Alice Barton
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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The Under-Pup
Title: The Under-Pup
Character: Priscilla Adams
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Joan Grey
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Joan Craig
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Peggy Phillips
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Linda Simpson
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: Christina "Steenie" MacCorkle
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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Reckless Living
Title: Reckless Living
Character: Laurie Andrews
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
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The Black Doll
Title: The Black Doll
Character: Marian Rood
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Mary Norris
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Title: Some Blondes Are Dangerous
Character: Judy Williams
Released: October 31, 1937
Type: Movie
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
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Love in a Bungalow
Title: Love in a Bungalow
Character: Mary Callahan
Released: June 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
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Let Them Live
Title: Let Them Live
Character: Judith Marshall
Released: April 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Joan Craig
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Connie Dawson
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: Doris Tennyson
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Lili
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Telephone Girl (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Ann Eliza Sutter
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Middleton's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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The Affair of Susan
Title: The Affair of Susan
Character: Miss Skelly
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Lucille Preston
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Eunice Littlefield
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Alice von Attem
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Prohibited from seeing her actor sweetheart Herman Brandt by her tyrannical parents, sweet young Vienesse lass Mariette defies authority by regularly visiting Brandt's downstairs apartment. The lovers' signal is a song called "The Firebird," which Brandt sings whenever he wants Mariette to visit him. When the actor is murdered, poor Mariette and her parents are prime suspects. But the truth is a bit more complicated than that, involving as it does a haughty aristocrat, a powerful diplomat and a most unusual "candid camera" device.