Sally Gray

Sally Gray

Born: February 14, 1916
Died: September 24, 2006
in Holloway, London, England, UK
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Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne (14 February 1916 – 24 September 2006), commonly known as Sally Gray, was an English movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

Born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, Gray trained at Fay Compton’s School of Dramatic Art and became well established in the theatre before embarking on a series of light comedies, musicals and thrillers in the 1930s.

Gray began in films in her teens with a bit part in School for Scandal (1930) and returned in 1935, making nearly twenty films, culminating in her sensitive role in Brian Desmond Hurst’s romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight (1941). She was off the screen for several years owing to an alleged nervous breakdown and then returned in 1946 to make her strongest bid for stardom.

This latter involved a series of melodramas. They include the hospital thriller Green for Danger (1946), Carnival (1946), and The Mark of Cain (1948). She made two films that, in different ways, capture some of the essence of postwar Britain: Alberto Cavalcanti's They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) (as a gangster's moll) and the stagebound Silent Dust (1948). She also appeared in Edward Dmytryk's film noir piece Obsession (1949), in which she plays Robert Newton’s faithless wife. Her final film was the spy yarn Escape Route (1952).

RKO Executives, impressed with Gray, authorized producer William Sistrom to offer her a long-term contract if she would move to the United States. John Paddy Carstairs, director of The Saint in London, also thought she could be a star. However, she declined the offer and instead retired in 1952 after secretly marrying Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne and lived in County Mayo, Ireland. In the early 1960s, they returned to England and settled in a flat in Eaton Place, Belgravia, in London. They had no children.

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Title: The Really Useful Show
Released: October 14, 1996
Type: TV
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Escape Route
Title: Escape Route
Character: Joan Miller
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Storm Riordan
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Silent Dust
Title: Silent Dust
Character: Angela Rawley
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Sally Connor
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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The Mark of Cain
Title: The Mark of Cain
Character: Sarah Bonheur
Released: March 14, 1947
Type: Movie
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…
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Green for Danger
Title: Green for Danger
Character: Nurse Freddi Linley
Released: December 7, 1946
Type: Movie
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Jenny Pearl
Released: December 2, 1946
Type: Movie
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the bright lights of the big city and for the arms of her artist lover. Unfortunately, her husband is all too aware of this.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Carol Peters Radetzky
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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The Saint's Vacation
Title: The Saint's Vacation
Character: Mary Langdon
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
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Olympic Honeymoon
Title: Olympic Honeymoon
Character: Miss America
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.
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A Window in London
Title: A Window in London
Character: Vivian Zoltini
Released: June 15, 1940
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
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Sword of Honour
Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Lady Moira Talmadge
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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The Saint in London
Title: The Saint in London
Character: Penny Parker
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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The Lambeth Walk
Title: The Lambeth Walk
Character: Sally
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.
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Q Planes
Title: Q Planes
Character: Minor Role
Released: February 21, 1939
Type: Movie
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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Hold My Hand
Title: Hold My Hand
Character: Helen Milchester
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Title: Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Character: Claire Kent
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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Saturday Night Revue
Title: Saturday Night Revue
Character: Mary Dorland
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
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Over She Goes
Title: Over She Goes
Character: Kitty
Released: August 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Plot and counter-plot jostle each other in this romantic comedy about a music-hall star who finds himself much in demand when he inherits a title!
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Café Colette
Title: Café Colette
Character: Jill Manning
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
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Calling the Tune
Title: Calling the Tune
Character: Margaret Gordon
Released: June 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscrupulous record label boss Mr Gordon (Sam Livesey), who finally gets his comeuppance after one dirty trick too far against his rivals. If the film's love story is perfunctory, the real interest comes with watching performers of the day, from Henry Wood and his orchestra to George Robey and Charles 'the laughing policeman' Penrose laying down their recordings direct to record. And something very like a prototype laser disc makes a crucial appearance too.
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Cheer Up
Title: Cheer Up
Character: Sally Gray
Released: February 1, 1936
Type: Movie
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
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Checkmate
Title: Checkmate
Character: Jean Nicholls
Released: September 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
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Cross Currents
Title: Cross Currents
Character: Sally Croker
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.