\"The Killing\" Coleen Gray Hand Signed 4x6 B&W Photo COA for Sale

\"The Killing\" Coleen Gray Hand Signed 4x6 B&W Photo COA For Sale

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\"The Killing\" Coleen Gray Hand Signed 4x6 B&W Photo COA:
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Up for sale "The Killing" Coleen Gray Hand Signed 4x6 B&W Photo. This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Coleen Gray (born Doris

Bernice Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was an American actress.

She was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948),

and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

Gray was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska, her

family moved to Hutchinson, Minnesota when she was seven. She grew up on a

farm. After graduating from Hutchinson high school in 1943 as Doris Jensen, she

studied drama at Hamline University, and

graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts. She travelled to California, and worked as a

waitress in a restaurant in La Jolla. After several

weeks there, she moved to Los Angeles and

enrolled at the University of California.

She also worked in the school's library and at a YWCA while

a student.

After playing a bit part in State Fair (1945), she

became pregnant and briefly stopped working, only to return a year later as the

love interest of the character played by John Wayne in Red River (1948),

which was shot in 1946 but held for release until 1948. Gray appeared in two

1947 films noir: In Kiss of Death as Victor Mature's ex-con character's wife and Richard Widmark's character's target; and in Nightmare Alley as Tyrone Power's character's carnival performer wife,

"Electra."[4] In 1950, Gray used her musical abilities as she

sang her part (rather than having her voice dubbed) opposite Bing Crosby in Riding High, directed

by Frank Capra. Riding High was not a success

and Fox ended her contract in 1950. Gray worked steadily in the 1950s, but

mostly in smaller movies. She played a crooked nurse in The Sleeping City (1950) and appeared in Kansas City Confidential (1952)

and in the Stanley Kubrick film

noir The Killing (1956),

in which she played a lonely woman desperate for love. In the 1953

Western The Vanquished, she

played a woman who attacks Jan Sterling's character with a pair of scissors in a crazed

attempt to exonerate the man she loves (John Payne). Other films

included Father Is a Bachelor (1950), The Leech Woman (1960), The Phantom Gray