Sally Gray
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3265 |
| Birthday | 1916-02-14 |
| Place of Birth | Holloway, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Constance Vera Browne, Constance Vera Stevens, |
1937
Café Colette
10/1
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
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Café Colette
1949
Obsession
6.83/56
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Obsession
1946
Green for Danger
6.727/99
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Green for Danger
1947
They Made Me a Fugitive
6.625/60
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
1941
Dangerous Moonlight
6.778/9
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his me...
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Dangerous Moonlight
1939
The Saint in London
5.833/18
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. H...
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The Saint in London
1936
Cheer Up
5.4/5
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Cheer Up
1949
Silent Dust
7.409/11
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Silent Dust
1940
A Window in London
6.214/7
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A Window in London
1940
Olympic Honeymoon
7/1
Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.
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Olympic Honeymoon
1937
Over She Goes
7/2
Three friends plan to marry their sweethearts, but when the former fiancée of one of them shows up threatening breach of promise because she's after h...
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Over She Goes
1946
Carnival
7.667/6
A melodrama about a 19th-century ballet dancer who makes an unfortunate career move by marrying a taciturn Cornish farmer. She soon longs for the brig...
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Carnival
1937
Saturday Night Revue
5.75/2
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Saturday Night Revue
1936
Calling the Tune
10/1
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Calling the Tune
1939
Q Planes
6.038/40
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Q Planes
1939
Sword of Honour
9/1
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Sword of Honour
1952
Escape Route
5.6/10
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Escape Route
1935
Checkmate
5.6/5
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
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Checkmate
1938
Hold My Hand
8/2
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Hold My Hand
1947
The Mark of Cain
6.25/8
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The Mark of Cain
1941
The Saint's Vacation
5.75/10
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The Saint's Vacation
1935
The Dictator
6.5/2
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The Dictator
1935
Cross Currents
9/1
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Cross Currents
1930
The School for Scandal
8/1
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The School for Scandal
1939
The Lambeth Walk
9/1
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The Lambeth Walk
1938
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
6.667/3
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
1935
Lucky Days
8/1
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