Full Name: Virginia Brissac
Place of Birth: California, U.S.A.
Date of Birth: June 11, 1883
Date of Death:: July 26, 1979 (age 96)

Stern-visaged American actress Virginia Brissac was a well-established stage actress in the early part of the 20th century. For several seasons in the 1920s, she headed a travelling stock company bearing her name. Once Brissac settled down in Hollywood in 1935, she carved a niche in authoritative parts, spending the next twenty years playing a steady stream of schoolteachers, college deans, duennas and society matrons. Once in a while, Virginia Brissac was allowed to "cut loose" with a raving melodramatic part: in Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers, she dons a coat of blackface makeup and screams with spine-tingling conviction as the bewitched mother of zombie Noble Johnson.

(source: Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)

The Ghost Breakers (1940) - as Mother Zombie
Rebel Without A Cause (1955) - as Mrs. Stark

Virginia Brissac at IMDB.com

AS MRS. STARK (GRANDMOTHER)

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