Virginia Field

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Margaret St John Field 4 November 1917 2 January 1992 known professionally as Virginia Field was a Britishborn film actress The niece of stage actress and director Auriol Lee she took her first film role as a teenager in the 1934 British mysterycomedy The Lady Is Willing before signing a Hollywood contract Field first went to the US to appear in David O Selznicks Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 In the late 1930s she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Foxs Mr Moto film series Field then played a ballerina alongside Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge 1940 an estranged wife in Dorothy Arzners Dance Girl Dance 1940 and Stuartera performer Nell Gwyn in the historical Western Hudsons Bay 1941 She also performed in the noir genre with films like Repeat Performance 1947 Dial 1119 1950 and Appointment with a Shadow 1957 She made frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and 60s Field married three times Her spouses included actors Willard Parker and Paul Douglas with whom she had a daughter as well as composer and musician Howard Grode She died of cancer on 2 January 1992 and was cremated with her ashes scattered at sea Field has a star at 1751 Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles dedicated 8 February 1960