Virginia Christine (March 5, 1920 - July 24, 1996) was an American film and television actress and voice artist.
She was born Virginia Christine Kraft, in Stanton, Iowa. Ms. Christine had a long career as a character actress in film and television, but she is best remembered as "Mrs. Olson" or the "Folgers Coffee Woman", a fictive Swedish character, in a number of television commercials.
Virginia began work in radio while attending UCLA. 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 (1942), in which she played a Norwegian peasant girl called "Miss Olson".
She was adept at imitating foreign accents when the role required it. In a 1953 episode of Adventures of Superman called The Lady in Black, she appeared as the title character, effecting a stereotypically mysterious eastern-European accent.
Over the years she...
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