Personal Info
Birth date
1915-07-14 (109 Years)
Day of death
2001-03-22
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Amelia Court House, Virginia, USA
Also known as
Martha Virginia Wing
Toby Wing Merrill
The most beautiful chorus girl in Hollywood
Toby Wing
Biography
Toby Wing (born Martha Virginia Wing, July 14, 1915 – March 22, 2001), "Toby" being an old family nickname, was an American actress and showgirl, once called "the most beautiful chorus girl in Hollywood".
Filmography
Baby Face
7.295
Overview:
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.He Who Gets Slapped
7.579
Overview:
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.42nd Street
6.909
Overview:
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.Babes in the Woods
5.9
Overview:
Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.This Day and Age
1
Overview:
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.The Kid from Spain
6.556
Overview:
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.The Golden Touch
6.5
Overview:
King Midas is visited by an elf; the elf turns his cat to gold, then claps his hands and it changes back. Midas begs for the golden touch, but the elf warns him it would be a curse to him. Midas insists. He dances about joyfully at first, but discovers the drawbacks when he sits down to dinner. Fearing death by starvation, he summons the elf and agrees to surrender everything he owns to have the curse lifted.Two for Tonight
6.5
Overview:
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.Sweethearts
5.7
Overview:
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.She Had to Say Yes
5.8
Overview:
Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have been using professional female entertainers to keep their clients very happy, but the clients are getting bored of them. Tommy convinces management to replace the professionals with "volunteers" from the pool of stenographers. Inevitably some clients expectations are greater than their "dates", boyfriends become unhappy, and the "voluntary" duty becomes less so over time. At first, Tommy prevents Florence from being a volunteer, but eventually the prospect of a bonus becomes too great and he encourages her to volunteer. Afterwards, Tommy considers Florence a loose woman.Murder at the Vanities
5.455
Overview:
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.College Humor
5.6
Overview:
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.Central Airport
6.136
Overview:
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.Torch Singer
5.2
Overview:
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.True Confession
5.8
Overview:
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.917
Overview:
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Color). It features a young, pre-stardom 13-year-old Judy Garland singing "La Cucaracha" with her two sisters (billed as "The Garland Sisters"). In the film, Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador," engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Buster Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and The Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured.Kiss and Make-Up
5.3
Overview:
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.Come On, Marines!
5
Overview:
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.Private Detective 62
6.091
Overview:
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.Mr. Boggs Steps Out
5.5
Overview:
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.Zander the Great
5.5
Overview:
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.Forced Landing
NYR
Overview:
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.Silks and Saddles
6
Overview:
College student Jimmy Shaw inherits a racehorse, named Lightning Lad, and sells stock to fellow students in order to obtain funds for racing the horse. Lightning Lad wins very race he is entered in. Marion Braddock, a spoiled rich girl who owns a racing stable offers to buy Lightning Lad, but Jimmy refuses to sell. The day of the big handicap-race arrives and Jimmy and his fellow stockholders are on their way to the track. But a group of gamblers, betting on Lightning Lad to lose, have some skullduggery plans to ensure Lightning Lad does not win the race.Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
NYR
Overview:
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.Palmy Days
7
Overview:
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rob the payroll.Arizona to Broadway
7
Overview:
A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.Mister Cinderella
6
Overview:
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriweather for much longer.The comedy comes fast and frantic in Mister Cinderella, from Hal Roach Studios.The Little Giant
6.8
Overview:
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.Acting
2003Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof as Self
2002Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story as Self (uncredited)
1938Sweethearts as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1938The Marines Come Thru as Linda Dale
1938Mr. Boggs Steps Out as Irene Lee
1937True Confession as Suzanne Baggart
1937Sunday Night at the Trocadero as Toby Wing
1937Mickey's Review as Singer
1937The Women Men Marry as Sugar Marvin
1937Sing While You're Able as Joan Williams
1936Silks and Saddles as Marion Braddock / Jane Smith
1936With Love and Kisses as Barbara Holbrook
1936Mister Cinderella as Lulu, the Cashier
1936Rhythmitis as Lola Green
1936Hill-Tillies as Toby
1935La Fiesta de Santa Barbara as Self
1935Forced Landing as Amelie Darrell
1935Two for Tonight as College Girl (uncredited)
1935Hollywood Extra Girl as Girl in Montage (uncredited)
1935Thoroughbred as Anne O'Malley
1935The Golden Touch as Bird (voice) (uncredited)
1934One Hour Late as Maizie
1934Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove as Self
1934Rhythm on the Roof as Bob's Fantasy Sweetheart
1934The Discontented Canary as Canaries
1934Kiss and Make-Up as Consuelo of Claghorne
1934Murder at the Vanities as Nancy
1934Come On, Marines! as Dolly
1934School for Girls as Hazel Jones
1934Search for Beauty as Sally Palmer
1933Torch Singer as Blonde in Sally's Apartment
1933This Day and Age as Student (uncredited)
1933Arizona to Broadway as Chambermaid
1933She Had to Say Yes as Model (uncredited)
1933Baby Face as Office Worker (uncredited)
1933College Humor as Student
1933Private Detective 62 as Free's Lady Friend (Uncredited)
1933The Little Giant as Society Girl (uncredited)
1933Central Airport as Air Show Observer (uncredited)
193342nd Street as Partner in "Young & Healthy" Number (uncredited)
1933Keyhole Katie as Unknown
1932Babes in the Woods as Hans / Gretel / Kids (voice) (uncredited)
1932The Kid from Spain as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1932Ma's Pride and Joy as Radio Director's Secretary
1932Young Onions as Charlie's Girlfriend
1932Jimmy's New Yacht as Charlie's girlfriend
1931Palmy Days as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
1931Blue of the Night as Blonde in Bathing Suit
1926Double Daring as Nan
1925American Pluck as Flower Girl at Coronation (uncredited)
1925The Pony Express as Child
1925Zander the Great as Little Girl (uncredited)
1924He Who Gets Slapped as Playing Child (uncredited)
1924A Boy of Flanders as Little Girl