Virginia O'Brien


Virginia O'Brien Profile Photo
Actress

​ Known to classic film fans by various nicknames--including Miss Deadpan, Frozen Face, and Miss Ice Glacier--this statuesque, dark-haired singer/actress carved a unique niche for herself on stage and screen by the hilarious Sphinx-like way she delivered a song. The daughter of the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department, Virginia Lee O'Brien became interested in music and dance at an early age (it didn't hurt her career chances that her uncle was noted film director Lloyd Bac...

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Date of Birth: Apr 18, 1919

Date of Death: Jan 16, 2001


Filmography

Actress (19 Known Credits)


Gus

Reporter

Francis in the Navy

Nurse Kittredge

Merton of the Movies

Phyllis Montague

Till the Clouds Roll By

Ellie May Shipley / Herself

The Harvey Girls

Alma from Ohio

The Show-Off

Hortense

Ziegfeld Follies

Virginia O'Brien ('Here's to the Ladies')

The Great Morgan

Film Character (archive footage)

Two Girls and a Sailor

Virginia O'Brien

Meet the People

'Woodpecker' Peg

Thousands Cheer

Virginia O'Brien

Ship Ahoy

Fran Evans

Panama Hattie

Flo Foster

Ringside Maisie

Herself - Singer

Sky Murder

Lucille LaVonne

Hullabaloo

Virginia Ferris

Gus (1976)
Reporter
Nurse Kittredge
Phyllis Montague
Ellie May Shipley / Herself
Alma from Ohio
The Show-Off (1946)
Hortense
Virginia O'Brien ('Here's to the Ladies')
Film Character (archive footage)
Virginia O'Brien
'Woodpecker' Peg
Ginny
Virginia O'Brien
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Fran Evans
Panama Hattie (1942)
Flo Foster
The Big Store (1941)
Kitty
Lady Be Good (1941)
Lull
Herself - Singer
Sky Murder (1940)
Lucille LaVonne
Hullabaloo (1940)
Virginia Ferris

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