Anecdotes

Although Virginia certainly had the talent to become a top film star, it was greatly believed her actions and more than very candid opinions about other stars did her in. When David O. Selznick made a pass at her, she clubbed him over the head with a heavy decanter. Disparaging remarks about actress Loretta Young (as being a "phony" and "two-faced") and Betty Hutton ("moody") badly hurt her overall reputation.

Her father was the judge of Leicester County Court Circuit in England. Her mother was a cousin of U.S. Civil War Confederate General Robert Edward Lee. Her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

Columnist Walter Winchell dubbed her "the most beautiful blonde in the world".

Mother, with Paul Douglas, of daughter Margaret Field Douglas (born in 1945).

Her marriage to Paul Douglas broke up when he found out she was having an affair with actor/director Dick Powell. She and Douglas had one daughter, Margaret Field Douglas (b. 1945), who worked as an actress in England.

Her acting training took place on the European continent. Max Reinhardt, whom she met in Vienna, presented her in his production of "All's Well That Ends Well". She was about to be presented to Broadway audiences when she was offered a Twentieth Century-Fox film contract.

During the long-running Perry Mason (1957) series between 1957-66, she made six guest appearances. She played the murderer in both the 1960 episode The Case of the Provocative Protege (1960) and the 1962 episode The Case of the Polka Dot Pony (1962).

Her marriage to composer Howard Grode lasted only three months before they separated. In 1951 she married character actor Willard Parker. Their marriage lasted until her death in 1992. Parker, in later years, became a successful real estate broker in Indian Wells, near Palm Springs, CA., while Virginia owned and operated a boutique near his office.