Virginia O’Brien Net Worth is
$17 Million

Mini Biography

Known to traditional film fans by several nicknames–including Miss Deadpan, Iced Encounter, and Miss Glaciers Glacier–this statuesque, dark-haired singer/actress carved a distinctive niche for herself in stage and display screen with the amusing Sphinx-like method she delivered a melody. The daughter from the captain of detectives from the Los Angeles Law enforcement Section, Virginia Lee O’Brien became thinking about music and dance young (it didn’t harm her career possibilities that her uncle was observed film movie director Lloyd Bacon). Her big show-business break emerged in 1939 after she guaranteed a singing part in the L.A. creation from the musical/humor “Meet up with the People”. On starting night, when period came on her behalf solo quantity, Virginia became so paralyzed with fright that she sang her music having a wide-eyed motionless stare that sent the target audience (which idea her overall performance a gag) into convulsions. Demoralized, Virginia remaining the stage and then soon discover out that she was a feeling. Authorized by MGM in 1940, she deadpanned her way to acclaim and immense popularity with appearances in a few from the studio’s most remarkable musicals including Thousands Cheer (1943), The Harvey Girls (1946), Till the Clouds Move By (1946), Ziegfeld Follies (1945), Panama Hattie (1942), Deliver Ahoy (1942), Meet up with the People (1944) and Du Barry Was a female (1943), carrying out inimitable renditions of such classic songs as “The Wild Wild West” (from your Harvey Girls), “AN EXCELLENT Love” (from Till the Clouds Move By (1946)), “It’s an excellent Big World” (from your Harvey Girls (1946)), “Poor You” (from Deliver Ahoy (1942)), and “State We’re Sweethearts Again” (from Meet up with the People (1944)). Although all too often relegated to presented songs and little supporting tasks, she still were able to become an target audience favorite from the sheer force of her personality, polished vocals and method having a comic quip. The second option ability is particularly apparent in another of her last MGM movies, Merton of the films (1947), where she co-starred with Crimson Skelton. In 1948, after 17 unforgettable screen looks for MGM, the studio room unceremoniously fallen her from its roster. She came back to movies only twice even more after her termination from MGM, in Universal’s Francis in the Navy (1955) and Disney’s Gus (1976), preferring to target her energies on tv as well as the stage, where she happy viewers for three even more decades. In the 1980s the still youthful beauty toured the united states within a one-woman show and documented a live album on the famed Masquers Club entitled, “A Salute to the fantastic MGM Musicals”. Among her last significant stage performances emerged in 1984 as Parthy Ann in the Long Seaside Civic Light Opera’s creation of “Showboat”, with Alan Youthful. She continued to be in semi-retirement in a big house in Wrightwood, California, for some of her old age until her loss of life on the Motion Picture Nation Medical center in Woodland Hillsides in January, 2001.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Virginia O'Brien
Died	January 16, 2001, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Singer, Radio personality
Nationality	American
Spouse	Harry B. White, Vern Evans, Kirk Alyn
Children	Liz Watkins, Terri O'Brien, John Feggo, Gale Evans
Siblings	Mary O'Brien
Movies	The Harvey Girls, Till the Clouds Roll By, Du Barry Was a Lady, Ziegfeld Follies, Meet the People, The Big Store, Merton of the Movies, Lady Be Good, Thousands Cheer, Ship Ahoy, Panama Hattie, Francis in the Navy, Hullabaloo, The Show Off, Two Girls and a Sailor, Ringside Maisie, Gus, The Great Morgan