Virginia Van Upp (1902 – 1970). American film producer and screenwriter.
Virginia Van Upp performed in several silent films as a child actress. She soon worked her way up in the film industry becoming a script writer, film editor, script reader, casting director, and agent.
She was only one of three female producers in Hollywood at the time. (The others were Joan Harrison who was associated with Alfred Hitchcock, and Harriet Parsons, daughter of influential gossip columnist Louella Parsons.)
As a producer, her work was often uncredited, such as the recutting of Orson Welles' vehicle for his wife Rita Hayworth, the expensive The Lady from Shanghai.
Perhaps Van Upp's best remembered production is film Gilda (1946), which she co-wrote and carefully supervised.
- “She is a lovely looking person with the very prettiest shade of red hair, and is charming, vivacious, and natural,”... Various profiles of her took care to inform readers that she stood a delicate five-foot-three, with flame red hair and green eyes." https://hazlitt.net/.../whatever-happened-virginia-van-upp
- "Virginia was a buxom lady in her latter forties with a mop of flaming red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=xrweBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA229...
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