Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne, commonly known as Sally Gray, was an English film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.
23 Facts About Sally Gray
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Sally Gray's mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother a "principal boy" in the 1870s.
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Sally Gray trained as a child at Fay Compton's School of Dramatic Art, and began acting on stage at the age of 10.
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Sally Gray made her professional stage debut at the age of twelve in All God's Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing an African boy.
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When she was 14, Sally Gray appeared in a minstrel show at the Gate Theatre in London.
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Sally Gray made her film debut with a bit part in The School for Scandal.
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Sally Gray then returned to school for two years, training at Fay Compton's School of Dramatic Art, during which time she performed in cabarets.
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Sally Gray appeared in The Gay Divorce on stage with Fred Astaire.
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Sally Gray returned to films in 1935, with The Dictator.
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Sally Gray could be seen in Cross Currents, Radio Pirates, Lucky Days, and Checkmate.
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Sally Gray returned on stage and was spotted by Stanley Lupino, who fell in love with her.
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Sally Gray had the female lead in Cheer Up with Stanley Lupino.
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Sally Gray had leads in Calling the Tune, Cafe Colette, and Saturday Night Revue with Billy Milton.
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Sally Gray had support roles in Lightning Conductor, a thriller; Over She Goes with Lupino; Mr Reeder in Room 13, a non musical; and Hold My Hand with Lupino.
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Sally Gray was the female lead in Sword of Honour, The Saint in London with George Sanders, The Lambeth Walk with Lupino Lane, and A Window in London, a non musical film with Michael Redgrave.
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Sally Gray was in Olympic Honeymoon then had the female lead in The Saint's Vacation.
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Sally Gray had a sensitive role in Brian Desmond Hurst's romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight.
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Sally Gray returned to the stage to star in My Sister Eileen with Coral Browne.
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Sally Gray had a nervous breakdown, resulting in her retirement for several years.
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Sally Gray returned to the screen in 1946 and made her strongest bid for stardom in a series of melodramas.
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Sally Gray then made Silent Dust and Edward Dmytryk's film noir piece Obsession, in which she plays Robert Newton's faithless wife.
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RKO executives, impressed with Sally Gray, authorised producer William Sistrom to offer her a long-term contract if she would move to the United States.
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Sally Gray married the 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, an Anglo-Irish peer, on 1 December 1951, and thereafter lived for several years at Castle Macgarrett, near Claremorris, in County Mayo in the west of Ireland.