Sally Gray

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Sally Gray (February 14, 1916 - September 24, 2006) was an English movie actress of the 30s and 40s.

Constance Vera Stevens was born in Holloway, London. She specialised in musicals and light comedies. She was a blonde with a seductive throaty speaking voice. Gray was a child stage actress before breaking into films in the 1930s. She trained as a child at the Fay Compton School of Dramatic Art.

She appeared in the 1941 Dangerous Moonlight, but in 1942 she temporarily retired from acting due to ill-health. She returned to acting in 1946 in films such as Green for Danger (1946), Carnival (1946) and They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) RKO executives, impressed with Ms. Gray, authorized producer William Sistrom to offer her a long term contract if she would come to America. John Paddy Carstairs, director of The Saint in London, also thought she could be a star.

She declined the offer, and stayed in England. She was married to Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne from 1951 until his death in 2002. While they had no children, her step-son Tara Browne, the Baron's child from a previous marriage, was a friend of John Lennon. When he was killed in a car accident in 1966 he was immortalized in the song "A Day in the Life." "He blew his mind out in a car... he didn't notice that the lights had change." She is styled Lady Oranmore and Browne through her marriage to the Baron.