Lorna Gray

Passed away on April 30, 2017, three months away from what would have been her 100th birthday on July 26.

On April 30, 2011, she appeared as a guest at the annual Three Stooges convention held in Fort Washington, PA.

As of mid-2001, she is one of the last surviving cast members who appeared in the early shorts of The Three Stooges at Columbia Pictures.

She appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, in July 1996 and July 2005.

After retiring from acting in 1951, she worked for many years with the World Adoption International Fund, an adoption agency, founded by Jane Russell.

Born Virginia Pound, Lorna Gray was "discovered" by an agent while modeling in a fashion show. She was given a screen test, and Columbia was impressed enough to sign her to a contract (it was at this time that she was given the name "Lorna Gray", which she kept until 1945, when she changed it to "Adrian Booth"). She was put in the studio's B unit, occasionally loaned out to Republic or Monogram, and when not making features was used in Columbia's comedy shorts, supporting such performers as The Three Stooges and Buster Keaton (where she actually acquitted herself quite well).

She left Columbia and began her long career with Republic Pictures in 1941, appearing in westerns, thrillers, horror pictures and especially the serials in which the studio specialized.