Virginia Field

Virginia Field
from the trailer for Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Born	Margaret Cynthia Field November 4, 1917(1917-11-04) London, England
Died	January 2, 1992(1992-01-02) (aged 74) Palm Desert, California, USA
Years active	1922–1959
Spouse	Paul Douglas (1942–1946) (divorced) 1 child Howard Grode (1947–1948) (divorced) Willard Parker (1951–1992) (her death)

Virginia Field (November 4, 1917 – January 2, 1992) was a British-born film actress.

Born Margaret Cynthia Field in London, her father was the judge of England's Leicester County Court Circuit. Her mother was a cousin of Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

She was educated in Paris and then returned to England where she studied for the stage. In Vienna she acted for Max Reinhardt and on returning to England she was given her first motion picture role in The Lady is Willing followed by a Hollywood contract.

She was brought to the U.S. to appear in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). In the late 1930s she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Fox's Mr. Moto movie series.

Fields married three times, including a marriage to actor Paul Douglas and a marriage to actor Willard Parker. She and Douglas had a daughter (Margaret Field Douglas, born 1945).

Partial filmography

• The Primrose Path (1934)
• Ladies in Love (1936)
• Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
• Captain Fury' (1939)
• Waterloo Bridge (1940)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Singapore Woman (1941)
• Atlantic Convoy (1942)
• The Crystal Ball (1943)
• Repeat Performance (1947)
• The Imperfect Lady (1947)
• Dream Girl (1948)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
• Dial 1119 (1950)
• The Earth Dies Screaming (1965) British

External links

• Virginia Field at the Internet Movie Database
• Virginia Field at the Internet Broadway Database
• Virginia Field at Find a Grave