Lorna Gray

Lorna Gray (born 26 July 1917) was an American film actress, known for her comic roles and later as a villainess. She is best known for her role as Mata Herring in the 1940 The Three Stooges film parody of Hitler in You Nazty Spy!, the first ever anti-Nazi film. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1938 film Red River Range. Her other well known role is as Clementine in O, My Darling Clementine in 1943.

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.

Curly Howard shaves a wealthy socialite (Ann Doran) in Three Sappy People. Gray (center) looks on.

In her Paramount films, such as Hold 'Em Navy she was credited as Virginia Pound, 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 used ever since.^[1]

Booth was awarded the Golden Boot Award in 1998, and was still attending film festivals at the age of 90.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Daughter of Don Q (1946)
• Daktota (1945)
• Federal Operator 99 (1945)
• Captain America (1944)
• So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
• O, My Darling Clementine! (1943)
• Perils of Nyoka (1942)
• Deadwood Dick (1940)
• Rockin' thru the Rockies (1940)
• You Nazty Spy! (1940)
• Three Sappy People (1939)
• Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
• The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
• Pest from the West (1939)
• Red River Range (1938)

References

External links

• Lorna Gray at the Internet Movie Database
• "Yo, Adrian! Adrian Booth at the Memphis Film Festival" The Blood-shot Eye (2007)

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