Virginia O'Brien
Acting
Biography
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 Baco…
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The Big Store
1941
Kitty
Ziegfeld Follies
1945
Virginia O'Brien (segment "Here's to the Ladies")
The Harvey Girls
1946
Alma from Ohio
Gus
1976
Reporter
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
Ellie May Shipley / Virginia O'Brien
Francis in the Navy
1955
Nurse Kittredge
Thousands Cheer
1943
Virginia O’Brien
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Ginny
Lady Be Good
1941
Lull
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
Virginia O'Brien
Ship Ahoy
1942
Fran Evans
Sky Murder
1940
Lucille LaVonne
Meet the People
1944
'Woodpecker' Peg
Merton of the Movies
1947
Phyllis Montague
Ringside Maisie
1941
Herself - Singer
Panama Hattie
1942
Flo Foster
The Show-Off
1946
Hortense
The Great Morgan
1945
Film Character (archive footage)
Hullabaloo
1940
Virginia Ferris
Musical Merry-Go-Round #4
1948
Self