Lorna Gray
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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.
Acting
Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Woman at Station (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Man They Could Not Hang
as Janet Savaard
1939
Movie
Dakota
as Entertainer (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Captain America
as Gail Richards
1944
Movie
So Proudly We Hail
as Lt. Toni Dacolli
1943
Movie
You Nazty Spy!
as Mattie Herring (uncredited)
1940
Movie
Valley of the Zombies
as Nurse Susan Drake
1946
Movie
Three Sappy People
as Sherry Rumsford
1939
Movie
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
as Flossie
1940
Movie
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
as Girl Michael Runs Into in Nightclub (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Red River Range
as Jane Mason
1938
Movie
Adventure in Sahara
as Carla Preston
1938
Movie
Cafe Hostess
as Cafe Hostess
1940
Movie
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Movie
Good Girls Go to Paris
as Bridesmaid (uncredited)
1939
Movie
The Plunderers
as Julie Ann McCabe (as Adrian Booth)
1948
Movie
Hideout
as Betty, alias Hannah Kelly (as Adrian Booth)
1949
Movie
Pest from the West
as Conchita
1939
Movie
The Girl Who Dared
as Ann Carroll
1944
Movie
Convicted Woman
as Frankie Mason
1940
Movie
Rock Island Trail
as Aleeta
1950
Movie
Up in the Air
as Singer Rita Wilson aka Gladys Wharton
1940
Movie
Exposed
as Judith Foresman (as Adrian Booth)
1947
Movie
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
as Gloria Williams
1945