Virginia Walker
American actress (1908-1946) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Virginia May Walker Hawks (July 31, 1908 – December 23, 1946) was an American model and film actress. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she studied Japanese art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and pursued a modeling career in national magazine advertisements, through which she was spotted by a Universal Pictures scout and signed to a film contract. Upon arriving in Hollywood, she met filmmaker Howard Hawks, who negotiated her release from Universal and signed her to a personal contract. She made her film debut in Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938), and the following year married Hawks's brother William. After their 1942 divorce, she appeared in four more feature film roles, three of them uncredited, for 20th Century Fox.
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Born | Virginia May Walker (1908-07-31)July 31, 1908 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | December 23, 1946(1946-12-23) (aged 38) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Virginia Walker Hawks |
Occupation | Film actress |
Years active | 1938–1945 |
Known for | Alice Swallow in Bringing Up Baby |
Spouse | William Hawks (1938-1942) |