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Sally Gray

Actor
Born February 14, 1916Died September 24, 2006 (90 years)
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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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Known For

  • I Became a Criminal
  • Green for Danger
  • The Hidden Room
  • The Saint in London
  • The Saint's Vacation
  • Suicide Squadron
  • I'll Get You
  • Lady in Distress
  • The Mark of Cain
  • Checkmate
  • Calling the Tune
  • Me and My Girl

Filmography

1952
I'll Get You · as Joan Miller
1949
Silent Dust · as Angela Rawley
1949
The Hidden Room · as Storm Riordan
1947
I Became a Criminal · as Sally Connor
1947
The Mark of Cain · as Sarah Bonheur
1946
Green for Danger · as Nurse Freddi Linley
1946
Carnival · as Jenny Pearl
1941
Suicide Squadron · as Carol Peters Radetzky
1941
The Saint's Vacation · as Mary Langdon
1940
Olympic Honeymoon · as Miss America
1940
Lady in Distress · as Vivian Zoltini
1939
Sword of Honour · as Lady Moira Talmadge
1939
The Saint in London · as Penny Parker
1939
Clouds Over Europe · as Minor Role
1939
Me and My Girl · as Sally
1938
Mystery of Room 13 · as Claire Kent
1937
Over She Goes · as Kitty
1936
Calling the Tune · as Margaret Gordon
1935
Checkmate · as Jean Nicholls
1935
Radio Pirates · as Cast
1935
Cross Currents · as Sally Croker
1935
Loves of a Dictator · as Minor Role (uncredited)
1930
School for Scandal · as Woman (uncredited)

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