Virginia Van Upp began her film career as a five-year-old child actress. Upon reaching adulthood, Van Upp determined to learn the production end of the business. Starting out as a script girl, she worked her way up to screenwriter and in this capacity kept busy at Paramount from 1930 to 1943. After her Paramount tenure, she was signed as a screenwriter and production executive at Columbia Pictures. The notoriously misogynistic Columbia chieftain Harry Cohn held Van Upp's opinions in the highest esteem, especially in matters relating to the screen career of the studio's top sex symbol, Rita Hayworth. Van Upp produced and/or scripted such Hayworth vehicles as Cover Girl (1944), Gilda (1946), and Affair in Trinidad(1952), spending her off-hours helping Hayworth cope with her professional and personal problems. Virgnia Van Upp died in 1970 of complications stemming from a broken hip.
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Affair in Trinidad
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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Here Comes the Groom
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Gilda
Producer |
1946 | |||
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Producer, Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Cover Girl
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Impatient Years
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Together Again
Producer, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Crystal Ball
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Young and Willing
Screenwriter |
1942 | |||
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Bahama Passage
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Come Live with Me
Screen Story |
1941 | |||
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One Night in Lisbon
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Virginia
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Cafe Society
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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Honeymoon in Bali
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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St. Louis Blues
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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You and Me
Screenwriter |
1938 | |||
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Swing High, Swing Low
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Easy to Take
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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My American Wife
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Poppy
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Timothy's Quest
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Too Many Parents
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Screenwriter |
1934 |


