Sally Gray
Known For
Acting
Born
1916-02-14 in Holloway, London, England, UK
Died
2006-09-24
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Q Planes
as Minor Role
The Really Useful Show
They Made Me a Fugitive
as Sally Connor
Cross Currents
as Sally Croker
Dangerous Moonlight
as Carol Peters Radetzky
The Saint in London
as Penny Parker
Green for Danger
as Nurse Freddi Linley
Obsession
as Storm Riordan
The Dictator
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Escape Route
as Joan Miller
The Saint's Vacation
as Mary Langdon
Silent Dust
as Angela Rawley
Calling the Tune
as Margaret Gordon
The School for Scandal
as Woman (uncredited)
Cheer Up
as Sally Gray
Checkmate
as Jean Nicholls
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
as Claire Kent
Café Colette
as Jill Manning
Saturday Night Revue
as Mary Dorland
The Lambeth Walk
as Sally