Personal Life and Death
Bruce married film director J. Walter Ruben in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year, and they had a son named Christopher, but she was widowed in 1942. In 1946 she married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952. Her great-grandson is actor Hutch Dano.
Virginia Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982 in Woodland Hills, California.
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