Virginia Gibson is an American

United States

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 dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre.

Career

Born as Virginia Gorski, Gibson landed a number of leading roles in films, TV Series and made a cameo appearance

Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

 in Starlift

Starlift

Starlift is an American musical film released by Warner Brothers in 1951, starring Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy and Ruth Roman. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Karl Lamb and John D. Klorer...

(1951). She was also a regular performer on The Johnny Carson Show

The Johnny Carson Show

The Johnny Carson Show is a 1955-56 half hour prime time television variety show starring Johnny Carson.While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show , local Los Angeles television comedian Johnny Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured during a show rehearsal...

(1955-56), an earlier Carson series, not to be confused with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

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. From the early 1960s to the early 1970s she co-hosted, with Frank Buxton (and later, Bill Owen), the ABC-TV

American Broadcasting System

American Broadcasting System, Inc. was the corporate entity created by Edward J. Noble to purchase the assets of the Blue Network, a radio network that was being divested by the National Broadcasting Company under pressure from anti-trust regulators....

 children's documentary program Discovery

Discovery (1960s TV series)

Discovery was a television program geared towards children and teenagers, produced by ABC News. The program began in the fall of 1962 as a weekday series, and was later moved to Sunday mornings. The program was hosted by actor/announcer Frank Buxton and actress/vocalist Virginia Gibson...

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Awards

In 1957 she was nominated for a Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

 Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for her portrayal of Beth Livingstone in Happy Hunting

Happy Hunting

Happy Hunting is a 1956 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, and music by Harold Karr. The plot focuses on wealthy Philadelphia Main Line widow Liz Livingstone and her efforts to find a royal husband for her daughter Beth.-Plot:Liz Livingston and her...

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Filmography

• Funny Face
  Funny Face
  Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson...
  
  
• Athena
  Athena (film)
  Athena is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  
  
• She's Back on Broadway
• Stop, You're Killing Me
• Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• About Face
• Goodbye, My Fancy
• Tea for Two
  Tea for Two (film)
  Tea for Two is a 1950 American musical film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, and the score by Harbach,...
  
  
• I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
• Once Upon a Honeymoon
• So This Is Hollywood (TV sitcom
  Situation comedy
  A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
  
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