Virginia Tracy

Virginia Tracy (1874 – March 4, 1946) was an American adventurer, stage actress, novelist and screenwriter. In the newspaper world she wrote primarily for the New York Tribune.

Biography

She was the daughter of Victorian actress Helen Tracy (1850–1924). and Shakespearean actor John McCullough.

At 20, in 1894, she wrote one of her first professional reports after accompanying a caravan of actors led by Maurice Barrymore traveling cross country on train. In the 1920s she wrote several large scale epics for the Fox Film Corporation.

Tracy's Broadway credits as an actress included Escape This Night (1938), Sweet Mystery of Life (1935), Post Road (1934), Jig Saw (1934), And Be My Love, (1934), Lone Valley (1933), Bulls, Bears and Asses (1932), Wild Waves (1932), and Up York State (1901).

On March 4, 1946, Tracy died in New York City. She apparently had never married.

Filmography

The Queen of Sheba (1921)

Nero (1922)

The Shepherd King (1923)

The Net (1924)