Virginia Christine

Actor

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Also Known As

Virginia Feld, Virginia Ricketts, Virginia Kraft

Birth Place

Stanton, Iowa, USA

Born

March 05, 1920

Died

July 24, 1996

Cause of Death

Heart Ailment

Biography

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Virginia Christine's creative partnership with famed director-producer Stanley Kramer encompassed six films. The two most well-known entries in the collaboration are the 1952 Gary Cooper Western "High Noon" and the 1967 topical drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," in which Christine portrayed Hilary St. George, the racist co-worker of Katharine Hepburn's Christina Drayton. In the midst ...

Filmography

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Woman Of The Year (1976)

In Enemy Country (1968)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Hilary St. George

Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)

A Rage To Live (1965)

The Killers (1964)

Photos & Videos

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Uncle Ira Was Uncle Ira

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Has Something Happened?

Family & Companions

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Fritz Feld

Husband

Actor. Married on November 16, 1940; died on November 18, 1993.

Notes

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Served as honary mayor of Brentwood

Did volunteer work with Planned Parenthood

Biography

Virginia Christine's creative partnership with famed director-producer Stanley Kramer encompassed six films. The two most well-known entries in the collaboration are the 1952 Gary Cooper Western "High Noon" and the 1967 topical drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," in which Christine portrayed Hilary St. George, the racist co-worker of Katharine Hepburn's Christina Drayton. In the midst of all this, Christine also began, in 1965, one of the most iconic partnerships between an actor and a commercial product, beginning a 21-year run as Mrs. Olsen in Folger's Coffee spots. During her long TV and film career, Christine starred in the odd horror film, most notably 1956's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," though her part was small. Christine began her career in radio and was always good with accents and dialects, so it's somewhat appropriate that after first hitting the airwaves in the '40s, she ended her career contributing various voices for the animated TV series "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo." Christine also appeared on a number of classic TV Western series, such as "The Virginian."

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Woman Of The Year (1976)

In Enemy Country (1968)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Hilary St. George

Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)

A Rage To Live (1965)

The Killers (1964)

One Man's Way (1964)

Cattle King (1963)

The Prize (1963)

Incident in an Alley (1962)

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Mrs. Halbestadt

Flaming Star (1960)

Three Brave Men (1957)

Helen Goldsmith

The Careless Years (1957)

Mathilda Vernon

Johnny Tremain (1957)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

The Killer Is Loose (1956)

Nightmare (1956)

Sue Grayson Bressard

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Cobweb (1955)

Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)

Not As a Stranger (1955)

Never Wave at a WAC (1953)

Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

The First Time (1952)

High Noon (1952)

Cyrano de Bergerac (1951)

Special Agent (1949)

Cover Up (1949)

Night Wind (1948)

Women in the Night (1948)

The Gangster (1947)

The Invisible Wall (1947)

Mildred Elsworth

Idea Girl (1946)

House of Horrors (1946)

The Killers (1946)

Lilly Harmon Lubinsky

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946)

The Inner Circle (1946)

Murder Is My Business (1946)

Phantom of the Plains (1945)

Girls of the Big House (1945)

The Mummy's Curse (1945)

Princess Ananka

Counter-Attack (1945)

The Old Texas Trail (1944)

Raiders of Ghost City (1944)

Truck Busters (1943)

Edge of Darkness (1943)

Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Not As a Stranger (1955)

Dialect consultant

Cast (Special)

The Unexplained (1956)

Life Events

1940

Married fellow actor Fritz Feld

1943

Motion picture debut in "Edge of Darkness," starring Errol Flynn; played the role of a peasant girl named Miss Olson

1944

Appeared in "Mummy's Curse"

1952

Appeared in "High Noon"

1956

Featured in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

1961

Had a role in Kramer's "Judgement at Nuremberg"

1961

Played the role of Widow Ovie for a season at NBC in "Tales of Wells Fargo"

1967

Worked on "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" in the role of Katherine Hepburn's business partner

1969

Appeared in "Hail, Hero!" starring Michael Douglas

Videos

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Uncle Ira Was Uncle Ira Well into the flashback from unglued suburban doctor Miles (Kevin McCarthy), he recalls telling anxious Wilma (Virginia Christine) that her uncle (Tom Fadden) appears unchanged, her cousin Becky (Dana Wynter) trying to reassure, early in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, 1956.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Has Something Happened? From producer-director Stanley Kramer’s credits, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton (Katharine Hepburn’s niece, in her movie debut) arriving in San Francisco, at her mother’s gallery where Hillary (Virginia Christine) presides, in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, 1967, starring Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Johnny Tremain (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Boston, 1774 Opening the Walt Disney Studios adaptation of the 1948 Newberry Award-winning novel, Hal Stalmaster (younger brother of the casting agent Lynn) the title character, Sebastian Cabot his client, Will Wright, Virginia Christine and Luana Patten his sponsoring family, in Johnny Tremain, 1957.

Gangster, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'm In A Hole Shorty (Henry Morgan) and cashier Dorothy (Joan Lording), both with plenty attitude, both work for title-character Shubunka (Barry Sullilvan) in his boardwalk soda-shop front operation, gambler Karty (John Ireland) pleading for for a bailout, in The Gangster, 1947.

One Man's Way (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Have No Sermon Theology grad arriving at his new church in Rhode Island, young Norman Vincent Peale (Don Murray) meets congregants (Hope Summers, Virginia Sale) then turns to his minister father (William Windom) to rescue his first sermon, in the bio-pic of the self-help pioneer, One Man’s Way, 1964.

Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula -- (Movie Clip) Looked Like A Wolf Did It Squeaky bat lurks as Betty (Melinda Plowman) snoozes, guest (Virginia Christine) guarding, then exposition with Billy (Chuck Courtney), who has more trouble with treacherous ranch hands (Bing Russell, Lennie Geer), in producer Carroll Case's hybrid programmer Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula, 1966.

Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula -- (Movie Clip) Vampires On The Brain Harry Carey Jr. arrives to tell Billy (Chuck Courtney) and others about the stagecoach taken by Indians, John Carradine the vampire having assumed the identity of one of the victims, young Eva (Hannie Landman) knowing better, mostly confusion in Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula, 1966.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) -- (Movie Clip) So Appallingly Stupid! Hillary (Virginia Christine) with Joey (Katharine Houghton) and Dr. Prentice (Sidney Poitier), whose engagement has just been revealed, then getting a momentous telling-off from her art gallery senior partner Christina (Katharine Hepburn), in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, 1967.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - (Original Trailer) Spencer Tracy's last film and last with Katharine Hepburn was this story of a liberal couple tested when their daughter brings home a black fiancee.

Family

Steven Feld

Son

Survived her.

Danny Feld

Son

TV still photographer. Survived her.

Companions

Fritz Feld

Husband

Actor. Married on November 16, 1940; died on November 18, 1993.

Bibliography

Notes

Served as honary mayor of Brentwood

Did volunteer work with Planned Parenthood

Judged the annuall American College Theater Festival

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