Virginia Grey

Grey was a regular on television in the 1950s, appearing on The Ford Theatre Hour, Your Show of Shows, Four Star Playhouse, The Millionaire, Science Fiction Theater, Wagon Train, and many more. Darla Hood is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. Notable movies include Tarzan's New York Adventure, Idaho, Wyoming, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Flame of Barbary Coast, Jungle Jim, The Rose Tattoo, Jeanne Eagels, Madame X and Airport. At forty-seven, Hood died in North Hollywood, California, of acute hepatitis contracted while in the hospital for a minor surgery. She left MGM in 1942, and signed with several different studios over the years, working steadily. During the 1960s and 1970s, she went to many Our Gang/Little Rascals festivals and conventions, meeting and greeting the various generations of fans. Grey returned to films in the 1930s with bit parts and extra work, but she eventually signed a contract with MGM and appeared in such movies as Another Thin Man, Hullabaloo and The Big Store. And she appeared in her own nightclub act at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Copacabana in New York and the Sahara in Las Vegas.

She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies in order to finish her education. She did singing and voice-over on TV commercials, which included Campbell Soup and Chicken of the Sea Tuna. Virginia debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin as Little Eva. Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as Tell It to Groucho starring Groucho Marx and The Jack Benny Show, where she appeared as "Darla" in a spoof of the old Our Gang shows with Jack Benny. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson. She played a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover and cast her in her first adult role in a movie.

Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 - July 31, 2004) was an American actress. In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. She and Granson had three children. Decker (married 1955-divorced 1957) and record company head Jose Granson (married 1957). Hood had two marriages, insurance salesman Robert W.

She had a hit record in 1957, I Just Wanna Be Free, and appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave singing a duet with Johnny Desmond. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV.

The group remained with Murray's Blackouts during its long run in New York and Hollywood. Shortly after graduation, the quartet was booked by producer and star Ken Murray for his famous "Blackouts," a stage variety show. While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, she appeared in a couple of other movies and attended school in Los Angeles.

The comedy movie shorts were later syndicated for television, in the mid-1950s, under the title The Little Rascals. From 1935 to 1941, she played Darla in Our Gang. She was then taken to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang movies. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test.

Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. She was born Darla Jean Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Darla Hood (November 4, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress.