Coleen Gray - Film Appearances

Film Appearances

Gray appeared in two 1947 films noir: in Kiss of Death as ex-con Victor Mature's wife and Richard Widmark's target, and in Nightmare Alley as "Electra", Tyrone Power's carnival performer wife. In 1948, she appeared as John Wayne's love interest in the opening sequences of Red River, but, overshadowed by the men in Howard Hawks's western, her career suffered and Fox ended her contract in 1950. Gray worked steadily in the 1950s. She played a crooked nurse in The Sleeping City (1950) and appeared in Kansas City Confidential (1952) and the Stanley Kubrick film noir The Killing (1956), in which she played a lonely woman desperate for love. Other films included Father Is a Bachelor (1950), the cult horror film The Leech Woman (1960), The Phantom Planet (1961), and P.J. (1968).

She made only one film in the '70s, The Late Liz (1971). She also appeared in one in the '80s, the religious film Cry From the Mountain (1986), produced by Billy Graham. She acted in the films Forgotten Lady (1977), and Mother (1978) with Patsy Ruth Miller. Mother had a premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In 1964, along with actors Victor Jory and Susan Seaforth, Gray testified before the United States Congress as part of "Project Prayer," arguing in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer.