Nan Grey
Date of birth: 1918-07-25
Place of birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Nan Gray, Nan Grey Laine, Eschal Loleet Grey Miller
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Grey was born Eschal Loleet Grey Miller in Houston, Texas. In 1934, she went to Hollywood with her mother for a holiday. She was persuaded by a friend to take a screen test and ended up in pictures. She attended the school that Universal Studios operated for children who had film contracts. Grey's screen debut was in 1934 in Warner Brothers' Firebird. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1936 film Sea Spoilers. Grey appeared in the Universal Monsters films Dracula's Daughter (1936) and The Invisible Man Returns (1940). She also appeared in the popular 1936 musical comedy Three Smart Girls as well as the 1939 sequel Three Smart Girls Grow Up. Grey played Kathy Marshall in the NBC radio soap opera Those We Love 1938-1945. She also played in The Lux Radio Theatre, November 8, 1937 episode, She Loves Me Not with Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, and Sterling Holloway. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nan Grey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Tower of London
1939-11-17
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate
The House of the Seven Gables
1940-04-12
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the
The Invisible Man Returns
1940-01-12
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him in
Three Smart Girls
1936-12-20
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from m
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until
Mary Jane's Pa
1935-04-27
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he
Girls' School
1938-09-30
At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students inter
Danger on the Air
1938-06-30
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio sho
The Black Doll
1938-01-31
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is abou
The Firebird
1934-11-03
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna
Love in a Bungalow
1937-06-27
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautif
The Affair of Susan
1935-09-01
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Sandy Is a Lady
1940-05-21
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endanger
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940-10-10
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-buck
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
The Under-Pup
1939-08-31
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy
You're Not So Tough
1940-07-26
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys
Some Blondes Are Dangerous
1937-10-31
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty o
Sea Spoilers
1936-09-30
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the cap
Under Age
1941-04-23
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to
Margie
1940-09-01
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a s
Reckless Living
1938-03-01
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary
Babbitt
1934-12-08
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing commun
Love Before Breakfast
1936-03-09
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K
The Storm
1938-10-28
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
The Great Impersonation
1935-12-08
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in
The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia
Ex-Champ
1939-05-11
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Crash Donovan
1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
Let Them Live
1937-04-25
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.