Lorna Gray
Born: 1917-07-26 in Grand Rapids, Michigan USA
Died: 2017-04-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lorna Gray (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017) was an American film actress known for her comic roles, and later as a villainess. She is best known for her roles in Columbia Pictures comedy shorts and Republic Pictures serials. She was known as Adrian Booth since 1945. Although she had a film test at Universal Studios and a brief contract with Paramount Pictures, she made her first big film for Columbia Pictures. As a Columbia contract player she appeared in the studio's shorts and serials, including Flying G-Men (starring Robert Paige), Pest from the West (starring Buster Keaton), and You Nazty Spy! (starring The Three Stooges). When her Columbia contract lapsed, she found work at Monogram Pictures, where she worked with action star Frankie Darro. Gray also starred opposite John Wayne in Red River Range (1938) and appeared in the title role in O, My Darling Clementine (1943), a country music film starring Roy Acuff as a singing sheriff. In her Paramount films, such as Hold 'Em Navy, she was credited as Virginia Pound, but she was given the name Lorna Gray by Columbia and she used it from 1938 until 1945, when she left Columbia and moved to Republic Pictures. She appeared as Lorna Gray in Republic's Federal Operator 99, but subsequently adopted the name Adrian Booth. At Republic, she often received co-star billing in Westerns, the only woman other than Dale Evans to be billed so highly at that studio. She also starred in Republic's serial about the comic book superhero Captain America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorna Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2002
- Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
1951
- Oh! Susanna as Lia Wilson
- The Sea Hornet as Ginger Sullivan
- Yellow Fin as Nurse Jean Elliott
1950
- Rock Island Trail as Aleeta
- The Savage Horde as Livvy Weston
1949
- Brimstone as Molly
- Hideout as Betty, alias Hannah Kelly (as Adrian Booth)
- The Last Bandit as Kate Foley / Kate Sampson
1948
- The Plunderers as Julie Ann McCabe (as Adrian Booth)
- The Gallant Legion as Connie Faulkner
- Lightnin' in the Forest as Dell Parker
- California Firebrand as Joyce Mason (as Adrian Booth)
1947
- Exposed as Judith Foresman (as Adrian Booth)
- Along the Oregon Trail as Sally Dunn
- Last Frontier Uprising as Mary Lou Gardner (as Adrian Booth)
- Spoilers of the North as Jane Koster
- Under Colorado Skies as Julia Collins (as Adrian Booth)
1946
- Valley of the Zombies as Nurse Susan Drake
- Man from Rainbow Valley as Kay North
- Out California Way as Gloria McCoy
- Daughter of Don Q as Dolores Quantero
- Home on the Range as Bonnie Garth
1945
- Dakota as Entertainer (uncredited)
- Adventures of Kitty O'Day as Gloria Williams
- Fashion Model as Yvonne
- Federal Operator 99 as Rita Parker
- Tell It to a Star as Mona St. Clair
1944
- Captain America as Gail Richards
- The Girl Who Dared as Ann Carroll
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Lt. Toni Dacolli
- O, My Darling Clementine as Clementine Cheshire
1942
- Perils of Nyoka as Vultura
- Ridin' Down the Canyon as Barbara Joyce
1941
- Tuxedo Junction as Joan Gordon
- Father Steps Out as Helen Matthews
1940
- Convicted Woman as Frankie Mason
- Deadwood Dick as Anne Butler
- Up in the Air as Singer Rita Wilson aka Gladys Wharton
- Drums of the Desert as Helene Laroche
- Rockin' Thru the Rockies as Flossie
- Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess
- You Nazty Spy! as Mattie Herring (uncredited)
- Bullets for Rustlers as Ann Houston
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Woman at Station (uncredited)
- Good Girls Go to Paris as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
- The Man They Could Not Hang as Janet Savaard
- The Amazing Mr. Williams as Nurse (uncredited)
- Coast Guard as (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt as Girl Michael Runs Into in Nightclub (uncredited)
- Pest from the West as Conchita
- Three Sappy People as Sherry Rumsford
- Outside These Walls as Secretary (uncredited)
- Flying G-Men as Babs McKay
- The Stranger from Texas as Jean Browning
1938
- Red River Range as Jane Mason
- Smashing the Spy Ring as Nurse Anna Loring
- Adventure in Sahara as Carla Preston
1937
- Hold 'Em Navy as Girl