Actor
Virginia O'Brien
Biography

​Known to classic film fans by various nicknames--including Miss Deadpan, Frozen Face, and Miss Ice Glacier--this statuesque, dark-haired singer/actress carved a unique niche for herself on stage and screen by the hilarious Sphinx-like way she delivered a song. The daughter of the captain of detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department, Virginia Lee O'Brien became interested in music and dance at an early age (it didn't hurt her career chances that her uncle was noted film director Lloyd Baco ...

Known For
Acting
1976 -- Gus | Reporter
1955 -- Francis in the Navy | Nurse Kittredge
1948 -- Musical Merry-Go-Round #4 | Self
1947 -- Merton of the Movies | Phyllis Montague
1946 -- Till the Clouds Roll By | Ellie May Shipley / Virginia O'Brien
1946 -- The Show-Off | Hortense
1946 -- The Harvey Girls | Alma from Ohio
1945 -- Ziegfeld Follies | Virginia O'Brien (segment "Here's to the Ladies")
1945 -- The Great Morgan | Film Character (archive footage)
1944 -- Two Girls and a Sailor | Virginia O'Brien
1944 -- Meet the People | 'Woodpecker' Peg
1943 -- Thousands Cheer | Virginia O’Brien
1943 -- Du Barry was a Lady | Ginny
1942 -- Panama Hattie | Flo Foster
1942 -- Ship Ahoy | Fran Evans
1941 -- Lady Be Good | Lull
1941 -- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 | Self
1941 -- Ringside Maisie | Herself - Singer
1941 -- The Big Store | Kitty
1940 -- Hullabaloo | Virginia Ferris
1940 -- Sky Murder | Lucille LaVonne
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