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Virginia Christine (born Virginia Christine Kraft
March 5, 1920) was a movie and television actress.
 Cristine (height 5' 4") had a long career as a
character actress on the screen, but she will
probably be best remembered as the "Folger Coffee
Woman" in a number of television commercials. She
was born in Stanton, Iowa, which later converted
its water tower to resemble a coffee pot in honor
of its most famous citizen. When her family moved
to Los Angeles, Virginia began work in radio while
attending the University of California, Los
Angeles. 

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. Over the years she appeared in prestigious
films such as High Noon (1952) and Judgment at
Nuremberg (1961) - to horror in The Mummy's Curse
(1944) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
She was a favorite of director Stanley Kramer,
appearing in a number of his films. 

But her greatest fame came in the 1960s when she
started her 21-year stint as the matronly Mrs.
Olson, who always had comforting words for young
married couples while pouring Folgers Coffee in
the TV commercials.  She died July 24, 1996