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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.677 |
Birthday | 1917-07-26 |
Place of Birth | Grand Rapids, Michigan USA |
Also Known As | Adrian Booth, Lorna Grey, Virginia Pound, |
1941
Tuxedo Junction
0/0
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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Tuxedo Junction
1948
Lightnin' in the Forest
3/1
Psychiatrist David Lamont is pressured into "analyzing" the madcap but glamorous niece of a judge. Then crooks on the lam intrude...
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Lightnin' in the Forest
1939
The Man They Could Not Hang
6.6/43
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to lif...
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The Man They Could Not Hang
1939
Flying G-Men
6/1
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even furthe...
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Flying G-Men
1949
Hideout
5.4/5
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discov...
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Hideout
1939
Pest from the West
7/5
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
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Pest from the West
1945
Fashion Model
3/2
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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Fashion Model
1940
Up in the Air
5.5/4
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his...
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Up in the Air
1939
Outside These Walls
7.5/1
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...
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Outside These Walls
1944
Captain America
5.5/28
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of...
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Captain America
1946
Valley of the Zombies
5.2/15
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
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Valley of the Zombies
1947
Exposed
5.8/4
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Exposed
1944
The Girl Who Dared
5.7/5
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
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The Girl Who Dared
1943
So Proudly We Hail
5.5/21
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So Proudly We Hail
1939
Three Sappy People
6.5/13
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Three Sappy People
1940
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
6.1/13
The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a...
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
1942
Ridin' Down the Canyon
7/1
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening...
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Ridin' Down the Canyon
1945
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
4.8/4
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1938
Red River Range
5.2/9
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a...
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Red River Range
1940
Convicted Woman
3.7/3
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Convicted Woman
1950
The Savage Horde
5.8/2
A charismatic gunfighter who is on the run takes refuge in a frontier cattle town and attempts to help a group of ranchers against a wealthy cattle ba...
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The Savage Horde
1945
Tell It to a Star
0/0
Carol (Ruth Terry), the cigarette girl at a swank Palm Springs hotel, dreams of singing in the establishment's nightclub. She gets a chance when her w...
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Tell It to a Star
1946
Out California Way
6/1
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse...
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Out California Way
1948
The Gallant Legion
7/3
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Co...
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The Gallant Legion
1945
Federal Operator 99
6/1
Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.
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Federal Operator 99
1949
Brimstone
6.5/2
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Brimstone
1951
Yellow Fin
4.5/2
WWII veteran Mike Donovan decides to sell his fishing boat after suffering a a series of accidents, the worst of which sends his father, Captain John...
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Yellow Fin
1951
Oh! Susanna
5/1
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
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Oh! Susanna
1942
Perils of Nyoka
0/0
Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates, co...
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Perils of Nyoka
1940
You Nazty Spy!
7.1/20
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide...
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You Nazty Spy!
1947
Spoilers of the North
4/1
When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who...
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Spoilers of the North
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
5.8/10
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
6.5/10
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1950
Rock Island Trail
6/4
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
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Rock Island Trail
1939
Good Girls Go to Paris
7.1/9
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
Coast Guard
5/3
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the l...
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Coast Guard
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.88/1038
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1940
Bullets for Rustlers
0/0
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers le...
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Bullets for Rustlers
1939
The Stranger from Texas
0/0
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides...
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The Stranger from Texas
1946
Home on the Range
0/0
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. T...
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Home on the Range
1946
Man from Rainbow Valley
0/0
When unscrupulous rodeo promoter Colonel Winthrop gets the idea of capturing "Outlaw" and making him a show horse, his niece Kay North tricks Monte in...
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Man from Rainbow Valley
1938
Adventure in Sahara
5.6/10
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own reques...
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Adventure in Sahara
2002
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
0/0
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtuall...
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
1943
O, My Darling Clementine
0/0
"Dapper Dan" Franklin and his small troupe of actors become stranded in the small town of Harmony, Tennessee. The town is shackled by Blue Laws impose...
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O, My Darling Clementine
1940
Drums of the Desert
5.5/2
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on...
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Drums of the Desert
1941
Father Steps Out
3/1
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his p...
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Father Steps Out
1940
Deadwood Dick
0/0
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Deadwood Dick
1948
California Firebrand
3/1
Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw...
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California Firebrand
1945
Dakota
5.1/30
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sand...
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Dakota
1940
Cafe Hostess
5.5/8
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Cafe Hostess
1951
The Sea Hornet
5/2
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later wh...
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The Sea Hornet
1947
Along the Oregon Trail
0/0
The period is the 1840's and Greg Thurston is out to establish his own empire out of a large area of the west. He needs rifles to give to the Indians...
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Along the Oregon Trail
1947
Last Frontier Uprising
0/0
Singing cowboy Monte Hale plays "himself" in the Republic western Last Frontier Uprising. Actually, he's not really himself, but a federal agent, disp...
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Last Frontier Uprising
1946
Daughter of Don Q
0/0
When the unscrupulous Carlos Manning discovers that an old Spanish land grant recently unearthed will leave a huge section of California real estate t...
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Daughter of Don Q
1947
Under Colorado Skies
0/0
Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He...
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Under Colorado Skies
1948
The Plunderers
5.6/7
Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, rel...
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The Plunderers
1949
The Last Bandit
6/1
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei...
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The Last Bandit
1938
Smashing the Spy Ring
0/0
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
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Smashing the Spy Ring
1937
Hold 'Em Navy
3/1
Two football players fight over the same girl.
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