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Virginia Christine
Age: 76 (passed away Jul. 24th, 1996)
Height: 5' 4"
Birth Place: Stanton, Iowa, USA
Born: Mar. 5th, 1920
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BIOGRAPHY: Virginia has a long career as a character actress on the screen, but she will always be best remembered as the "Folger Coffee Woman". Virginia was born in the small Iowa town of Stanton, which later converted its water tower to resemble a coffee pot in honor of its most famous citizen. When her family moved to Los Angeles, Virginia worked in radio while attending the University of California, Los Angeles. She was trained for a theatrical career by actor/director Fritz Feld, whom she married in 1940. In 1942, she signed a contract with Warner Bros. and started appearing in various films. Her first film was, Edge of Darkness (1943), in which she played a Norwegian peasant girl called "Miss Olson". Over the years, she appeared in prestigious films such as High Noon (1952) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - to horror in The Mummy's Curse (1944) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). She was a favorite of Stanley Kramer, appearing in a number of his films. But her greatest fame came in the 1960's when she started her 21-year stint as the matronly "Mrs. Olson", who always had comforting words for young married couples while pouring Folgers Coffee in the TV ads.
TRIVIA:
- Fans of Mrs. Olson were surpised to find that even though she was raised in the Scandanavian communities of Iowa, she had no accent.
- Best known to Americans as "Mrs Olson" in Folger's Coffee TV commercials in the '60s and '70s.
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