Virginia Christine
About
Biography
Filmography
Family & Companions
Notes
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)
Film Production - Main (Feature Film)
Cast (Special)
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
Movie Clip
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Family
Companions
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Bibliography
Notes
Served as honary mayor of Brentwood
Did volunteer work with Planned Parenthood
Judged the annuall American College Theater Festival