Sally Gray

Born: 1916-02-14

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sally Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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They Made Me a Fugitive

as Sally Connor
Released: 1947-06-24

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

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Green for Danger

as Nurse Freddi Linley
Released: 1946-12-07

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But...

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Obsession

as Storm Riordan
Released: 1949-08-03

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

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Q Planes

as Minor Role
Released: 1939-02-21

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter...

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The Dictator

as Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: 1935-02-07

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King...

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A Window in London

as Vivian Zoltini
Released: 1940-06-15

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his...

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Cheer Up

as Sally Gray
Released: 1936-02-01

An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new...

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The Saint's Vacation

as Mary Langdon
Released: 1941-05-09

While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

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Silent Dust

as Angela Rawley
Released: 1949-02-01

A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who...

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The Saint in London

as Penny Parker
Released: 1939-06-30

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've...

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Escape Route

as Joan Miller
Released: 1952-12-01

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a...

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Dangerous Moonlight

as Carol Peters Radetzky
Released: 1941-06-26

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from...

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Calling the Tune

as Margaret Gordon
Released: 1936-06-30

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to...

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Carnival

as Jenny Pearl
Released: 1946-12-02

A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying...

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The Mark of Cain

as Sarah Bonheur
Released: 1947-03-14

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the...

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The School for Scandal

as Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1930-09-05

Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.

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The Lambeth Walk

as Sally
Released: 1939-04-03

Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been...

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Café Colette

as Jill Manning
Released: 1937-01-01

A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.

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Checkmate

as Jean Nicholls
Released: 1935-09-26

A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.

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Saturday Night Revue

as Mary Dorland
Released: 1937-10-01

There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is...

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Mr. Reeder in Room 13

as Claire Kent
Released: 1938-02-01

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor...

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Over She Goes

as Kitty
Released: 1937-08-16

Plot and counter-plot jostle each other in this romantic comedy about a music-hall star who...

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