Personal Info
Virginia Lee O'Brien
Miss Red Hot Frozen Face
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Virginia O'Brien
Acting
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 Bacon). Her big show-business break came in 1939 after she secured a singing role in the L.A. production…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Gus
as Reporter
Francis in the Navy
as Nurse Kittredge
Musical Merry-Go-Round #4
as Self
Merton of the Movies
as Phyllis Montague
The Harvey Girls
as Alma from Ohio
Till the Clouds Roll By
as Ellie May Shipley / Virginia O'Brien
The Show-Off
as Hortense
Ziegfeld Follies
as Virginia O'Brien (segment "Here's to the Ladies")
The Great Morgan
as Film Character (archive footage)
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Virginia O'Brien