The Silver Screen Oasis

mongoII wrote:
LORNA GRAY aka ADRIAN BOOTH is 95 today
Before appearing in films, Gray sang with a group in Cleveland called Ben Yost's Varsity Coeds, who performed primarily in movie theaters before the movie began. Although she had a film test at Universal Studios and a brief contract with Paramount Pictures, she made her first big film for Columbia Pictures.
In her Paramount films, such as Hold 'Em Navy, she was credited as Virginia Pound (her real name), but she was given the name Lorna Gray by Columbia and she used it from 1938 until 1945, when she left Columbia and moved to Republic Pictures. At Republic, she adopted the name Adrian Booth, which she has used ever since. She certainly played the name game.
Appearing in westerns, thrillers, horror pictures and especially the serials in which the studio specialized.
She married actor David Brian in 1948, and after making films for a few more years, retired from the screen in 1951. They were married 44 years until his death in 1993.

A former Blossom Queen was free in Los Angeles under $1000 bond today after being arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana. The suspect is screen actress Lorna Gray, whose real name is Virginia Pound. She was chosen Blossom Queen in 1936 while a Grand Rapids high school student and ruled over the May festival that year. Two years after being Blossom Queen here, Miss Pound was signed by Columbia Pictures and last week she signed a seven-year contract. Miss Pound was arrested with movie stunt man Ruel F. Taylor, 37. Taylor works at the same studio as Miss Pound, often doubling for Roy Rogers, cowboy star.

mongoII wrote:Nick, it seems sad to bring up these charges against the 97 year old Miss Booth in this day and age. Although it may have been the marijuana that is the reason for her longevity. Do you think?