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Coleen Gray | Actress, 92

Film noir actress Coleen Gray, 92, who generally played the "good girl" in hard-boiled films such as The Killing , Nightmare Alley , and Kansas City Confidential before segueing into a prolific television career, died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. The death was from natural causes, said family friend David Schecter.

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Film noir actress Coleen Gray, 92, who generally played the "good girl" in hard-boiled films such as

The Killing

,

Nightmare Alley

, and

Kansas City Confidential

before segueing into a prolific television career, died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. The death was from natural causes, said family friend David Schecter.

Ms. Gray appeared in a variety of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including the Howard Hawks classic western Red River opposite John Wayne and Frank Capra's Riding High with Bing Crosby.

"When I started out, I wanted to be a sex goddess," Ms. Gray said in a 1999 Los Angeles magazine interview. "But I guess I was the wholesome type." - L.A. Times

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