Virginia Bruce
8 titles
Filmography
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Flight Angels
(1940)Cleared for takeoff: Flight Angels, an aviation programmer steeped in man-woman attitudes of its time. The story is centered on commercial pilots eager to fly higher (during off-hours they're designing a high-altitude plane) and up-in-the-air attendants eager to land a man (exchanges between the femmes in the Stewardess Lounge are exceptionally catty). Virginia Bruce and Jane Wyman portray two of the title's Angels. Dennis Morgan plays the pilot whose eye problems result in him being grounded by his superintendent (Ralph Bellamy) and sent to the classroom to instruct future flight attendants. He refuses to stay grounded, test-piloting his experimental stratospheric aircraft without authorization. Wayne Morris, inspired by his role in the film, became a real-life pilot and went on to become a decorated WWII flight hero.

Jane Eyre
(1934)A young woman, orphaned and raised by a cruel aunt, is optimistic about her new employment as governess at a wealthy estate.
There Goes My Heart
(1938)Eager to break free of her constrained life, heiress Joan Butterfield (Virginia Bruce) runs away from her grandfather's yacht just as reporter Bill Spencer (Fredric March) arrives to get a rare photo of her. Befriended by the kind Peggy (Patsy Kelly), Joan takes an assumed name and moves in with Peggy, then joins her working at Butterfield's department store. Bill, who has begun an article on Joan, visits the store and, recognizing her there, realizes that he has stumbled upon a hot story.
Action in Arabia
(1944)When an American newspaperman based in Damascus investigates the murder of a colleague, his search leads him to a beautiful French spy, a World War II Nazi plot to unite the Arabs against the Allies--and lots of Action in Arabia.

Let Freedom Ring
(1939)Combining Nelson Eddy’s fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western.
Metropolitan
(1935)The story behind the golden curtain of the great opera house. Revealing romance, temperament and drama in private lives of the grand opera stars.

State Department: File 649
(1949)A rookie U.S. official is sent to remote northern China where he must match wits with a sinister warlord with plans to seize control of the province.

Born to Dance
(1936)James Stewart ("It's a Wonderful Life") stars in this fun and enjoyable musical about a sailor who helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.