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Lorna Gray

Lorna Gray

Birthday: 1917-07-26 | Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lorna Gray (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017) was an American film actress known for her comic roles, and later as a villainess. She is best known for her roles in Columbia Pictures comedy shorts and Republic Pictures serials. She was known as Adrian Booth since 1945. Although she had a film test at Universal Studios and a brief contract with Paramount Pictures, she made her first big film for Columbia Pictures. As a Columbia contract player she appeared in the studio's shorts and serials, including Flying G-Men (starring Robert Paige), Pest from the West (starring Buster Keaton), and You Nazty Spy! (starring The Three Stooges). When her Columbia contract lapsed, she found work at Monogram Pictures, where she worked with action star Frankie Darro. Gray also starred opposite John Wayne in Red River Range (1938) and appeared in the title role in O, My Darling Clementine (1943), a country music film starring Roy Acuff as a singing sheriff. In her Paramount films, such as Hold 'Em Navy, she was credited as Virginia Pound, but she was given the name Lorna Gray by Columbia and she used it from 1938 until 1945, when she left Columbia and moved to Republic Pictures. She appeared as Lorna Gray in Republic's Federal Operator 99, but subsequently adopted the name Adrian Booth. At Republic, she often received co-star billing in Westerns, the only woman other than Dale Evans to be billed so highly at that studio. She also starred in Republic's serial about the comic book superhero Captain America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lorna Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1950
The Savage Horde

as    Livvy Weston

1949
Hideout

as    Betty, alias Hannah Kelly (as Adrian Booth)

1949
Brimstone

as    Molly

1947
Exposed

as    Judith Foresman (as Adrian Booth)

1946
Home on the Range

as    Bonnie Garth

1946
Out California Way

as    Gloria McCoy (as Adrian Booth)

1946
Valley of the Zombies

as    Nurse Susan Drake

1945
Adventures of Kitty O'Day

as    Gloria Williams

1945
Tell It to a Star

as    Mona St. Clair

1945
Federal Operator 99

as    Rita Parker

1945
Fashion Model

as    Yvonne

1944
The Girl Who Dared

as    Ann Carroll

1944
Captain America

as    Gail Richards

1943
O, My Darling Clementine

as    Clementine Cheshire

1942
Ridin' Down the Canyon

as    Barbara Joyce

1942
Perils of Nyoka

as    Vultura

1940
Convicted Woman

as    Frankie Mason

1940
Drums of the Desert

as    Helene Laroche

1940
Up in the Air

as    Singer Rita Wilson aka Gladys Wharton

1939
The Man They Could Not Hang

as    Janet Savaard

1938
Adventure in Sahara

as    Carla Preston

1938
Red River Range

as    Jane Mason