Lorna Gray

Lorna Gray was an American actress known first for comic roles and later for playing villains, billed early on as Virginia Pound and after 1945 as Adrian Booth. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she sang with Ben Yost's Varsity Co-eds in Cleveland before a screen test at Universal and a brief contract at Paramount, where she was credited as Virginia Pound in films such as Hold 'Em Navy. Her major break came at Columbia Pictures, where she appeared in comedy shorts and serials including the Three Stooges film You Nazty Spy, Flying G-Men and Pest from the West. After her Columbia contract lapsed she worked at Monogram Pictures. She took the name Lorna Gray in 1938, used it until 1945, then moved to Republic Pictures, where she appeared in Federal Operator 99 before adopting the name Adrian Booth. She often had costar billing in Westerns there and starred in a serial about the comic-book hero Captain America.