Virginia Welles

Acting

Virginia Welles

Born 1925-06-25 · Wausau, Wisconsin, USA

Acting credits

Kiss and Tell poster
6.3

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.

Kiss and Tell

1945

Hollywood Victory Caravan poster
5.6

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

Hollywood Victory Caravan

1945

To Each His Own poster
7.0

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

To Each His Own

1946

Francis in the Haunted House poster
5.8

Reporter David Prescott becomes unlikely friends with Francis, who is the only witness to a murder. As Prescott finds himself in and out of the police station as a supposedly delirious suspect, he must clear his name with Francis in tow, and set off to the spooky old castle where the real killer waits!

Francis in the Haunted House

1956

Make Believe Ballroom poster
6.7

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their performers. Lots of musicians perform.

Make Believe Ballroom

1949

A Kiss for Corliss poster
5.8

After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.

A Kiss for Corliss

1949

Dear Ruth poster
6.7

Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.

Dear Ruth

1947

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight poster
6.5

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

1949

Ladies' Man poster
10.0

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Ladies' Man

1947

Square Dance Katy poster
4.0

In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of finding fame and fortune.

Square Dance Katy

1950

Dynamite poster
4.7

Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their co-workers.

Dynamite

1949

Casa Manana poster
3.7

Linda Mason, secretary to advertising executive Horace Fairchild III, has theatrical aspirations, and unknown to her boss, she enters a radio talent contest.

Casa Manana

1951