Sally Gray never achieved the same level of recognition as her contemporaries (Lockwood, Calvert et al.) but her body of work is impressive.
Constance Vera Stevens was born in Holloway and attended the Fay Compton stage school. She started on the stage early and her first film appearance was in 1930 (billed as Constance Stevens). She made her name as ingénue in West End musicals which inevitably lead to bit parts in quota quickies. Her stage career developed through an association with popular comedian Stanley Lupino, and her early successes in cinema were in Lupino vehicles such as The Lambeth Walk.
She went dramatic for the smash-hit Dangerous Moonlight as the wife who resents her husband's decision to enlist in the air force. This made her a big star, but its success, and the death of mentor Lupino, contributed to her nervous breakdown which kept her off-screen for a few years.
She returned to the screen with Green for Danger and continued with a series of dour melodramas that now seem to catch the mood of the era better than those of her contemporaries. Her last film was Escape Route with Yank-import George Raft.
She quit the business to become the third wife of the fourth Baron Oranmore and Browne. The marriage lasted until her husband's death in 2002 aged 100.
| 1930 | School for Scandal |
| 1935 | Radio Pirates |
| 1935 | Cross Currents |
| 1935 | The Dictator |
| 1935 | Lucky Days |
| 1935 | Checkmate |
| 1936 | Cheer Up! |
| 1936 | Calling the Tune |
| 1937 | Saturday Night Review |
| 1937 | Cafe Colette |
| 1938 | Sword of Honour |
| 1938 | Over She Goes |
| 1938 | Mr Reeder in Room 13 |
| 1938 | Lightening Conductor |
| 1938 | Hold My Hand |
| 1939 | The Saint in London |
| 1940 | The Lambeth Walk |
| 1940 | A Window in London |
| 1940 | Olympic Honeymoon |
| 1941 | The Saint's Vacation |
| 1941 | Dangerous Moonlight |
| 1946 | Green for Danger |
| 1946 | Carnival |
| 1947 | The Mark of Cain |
| 1947 | They Made Me a Fugitive |
| 1948 | Silent Dust |
| 1949 | Obsession |
| 1952 | Escape Route |
