Lorna Gray

Signature (as Adrian Booth Brian)

Lorna Gray , actually Virginia Pound, (born July 26, 1917 in Grand Rapids , Michigan - † April 30, 2017 in Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress who worked mainly for Columbia Pictures and from 1937 to 1951 Republic Pictures was active. Her best-known role was played by Gray in 1944 as Gail Richards in Captain America . Since 1945 she had the stage name Adrian Booth .

Life

Lorna Gray was born Virginia Pound on July 26, 1917 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She began her career as an actress and singer with a theater company in Cleveland.

Pound both Castings in was Universal Studios as well as Paramount Pictures , which her her first small film role in Hold 'Em Navy alongside Lew Ayres and Mary Carlisle offered, in which she was known under her real name in the credits. In 1938 she was signed to Columbia Pictures. At the same time she took the stage name Lorna Gray. Her first major role was in the adventure film Adventure in Sahara in 1937 . This was followed by major supporting roles in films such as Red River Range on the side of John Wayne or the music film O, My Darling Clementine . In 1939 she appeared as an extra in the classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . In 1944 she played the lead role in The Girl Who Dared . Gray had her best-known role in the same year as Gail Richards in the serial Captain America .

Gray stayed with Columbia Pictures for a total of seven years before she left the studio in 1945 and signed with Republic Pictures. Her new stage name was henceforth Adrian Booth. She was seen in the credits under three different names in her career. In 1946 she played the lead role in Daughter of Don Q .

Booth stayed with Republic Pictures for six years before ending her film career in 1951 with the female lead in the western Apache Battle of the Black Mountains and in the adventure film The Sea Hornet . Two years earlier she had married the actor David Brian , with whom she stayed until his death in 1993. Adrian Booth performed at film festivals and award ceremonies until her death and was awarded the Golden Boot Award in 1998 for her acting performance in westerns . She died less than three months before her 100th birthday in April 2017.

Filmography (selection)

1937: Hold 'Em Navy
1937: Thrill of a Lifetime
1938: The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938: Adventure in Sahara
1938: Battle of the Red River Range
1938: Smashing the Spy Ring
1939: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939: Flying G-Men
1939: Outside These Walls
1939: Missing Daughters
1939: Good Girls Go to Paris
1939: Coast Guard
1939: Pest from the West
1939: The Man They Could Not Hang
1939: Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939: The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939: Three Sappy People
1940: You Nazty Spy!
1940: Rockin 'thru the Rockies
1940: Deadwood Dick
1940: Convicted Woman
1940: Up in the Air
1941: Father Steps Out
1941: Tuxedo Junction
1942: Perils of Nyoka
1942: Ridin 'Down the Canyon
1943: Courageous Women ( So Proudly We Hail! )
1943: O, My Darling Clementine
1944: Captain America
1944: The Girl Who Dared
1945: fashion model
1945: Federal Operator 99
1945: Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945: Tell It to a Star
1945: Love in the Wild (Dakota)
1946: Home on the Range
1946: Valley of the Zombies
1946: Man from Rainbow Valley
1946: Daughter of Don Q
1946: Out California Way
1947: Last Frontier Uprising
1947: Spoilers of the North
1947: Along the Oregon Trail
1947: Exposed
1947: Under Colorado Skies
1948: Lightnin 'in the Forest
1948: California Firebrand
1948: The looters of Nevada (The Plunderers)
1949: The Last Bandit
1949: Hideout
1949: Brimstone
1950: Rock Island Trail
1950: The Savage Horde
1951: Apache battle on the black mountains (Oh! Susanna)
1951: The Sea Hornet

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Lorna Gray, Queen of Shorts and Serials at Columbia and Republic Pictures, Dies at 99. In: Hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2017, accessed May 3, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gray, Lorna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pound, Virginia (real name); Booth, Adrian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grand Rapids , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 2017
Place of death	Sherman Oaks , Los Angeles , California , United States

[1] Lorna Gray, Queen of Shorts and Serials at Columbia and Republic Pictures, Dies at 99. In: Hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2017, accessed May 3, 2017 .