Sally Gray

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Constance Vera Browne Baroness Oranmore and Browne 14 February 1916 24 September 2006 commonly known as Sally Gray was an English movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s Born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway London Gray trained at Fay Comptons School of Dramatic Art and became well established in the theatre before embarking on a series of light comedies musicals and thrillers in the 1930s Gray began in films in her teens with a bit part in School for Scandal 1930 and returned in 1935 making nearly twenty films culminating in her sensitive role in Brian Desmond Hursts romantic melodrama Dangerous Moonlight 1941 She was off the screen for several years owing to an alleged nervous breakdown and then returned in 1946 to make her strongest bid for stardom This latter involved a series of melodramas They include the hospital thriller Green for Danger 1946 Carnival 1946 and The Mark of Cain 1948 She made two films that in different ways capture some of the essence of postwar Britain Alberto Cavalcantis They Made Me a Fugitive 1947 as a gangsters moll and the stagebound Silent Dust 1948 She also appeared in Edward Dmytryks film noir piece Obsession 1949 in which she plays Robert Newtons faithless wife Her final film was the spy yarn Escape Route 1952 RKO Executives impressed with Gray authorized producer William Sistrom to offer her a longterm contract if she would move to the United States John Paddy Carstairs director of The Saint in London also thought she could be a star However she declined the offer and instead retired in 1952 after secretly marrying Dominick Browne 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne and lived in County Mayo Ireland In the early 1960s they returned to England and settled in a flat in Eaton Place Belgravia in London They had no children Description above from the Wikipedia article Sally Gray licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia