Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — Apr 18 1919• Died Jan 16 2001

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 secur…
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Ellie May Shipley / Virginia O'Brien

Alma from Ohio

Virginia O'Brien

Ginny

Reporter

Kitty

Film Character (archive footage)

Fran Evans

Flo Foster

Virginia O’Brien

Nurse Kittredge

Lull

Virginia O'Brien (segment "Here's to the Ladies")

Lucille LaVonne

'Woodpecker' Peg

Herself - Singer

Phyllis Montague

Hortense

Self

Virginia Ferris

Self