Virginia Mayo
Gender: Female
Born: 30th November 1920
Died: 17th January 2005
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Santa Barbara
Movies: Captain Horatio Hornblower, Colorado Territory, Flaxy Martin, Red Light, The Best Years of Our Lives, White Heat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Silver Chalice, King Richard and the Crusaders, The Flame and the Arrow, A Song Is Born, The Kid from Brooklyn, Painting the Clouds with Sunshine, Along the Great Divide, Wonder Man, Fort Dobbs, Great Day in the Morning, The Princess and the Pirate, Pearl of the South Pacific, The West Point Story, The Proud Ones, South Sea Woman, Congo Crossing, Fort Utah, Starlift, Fade to Black, Out of the Blue, Smart Girls Don't Talk, Devil's Canyon, The Iron Mistress, Evil Spirits, Jack London, Midnight Witness, Westbound, Young Fury, Jet Over the Atlantic, Backfire
Virginia Mayo (November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American film actress.
After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and White Heat (1949).
Born Virginia Clara Jones in St. Louis, Missouri. Tutored by a series of dancing instructors engaged by her aunt, she appeared in the St. Louis Municipal Opera chorus and then appeared with six other girls at an act at the Jefferson Hotel. There she was recruited by vaudeville performer Andy Mayo to appear in his act (as ringmaster for two men in a horse suit), taking his surname as her stage name. She appeared in vaudeville for three years in the act, appearing with Eddie Cantor on Broadway in 1941's Banjo Eyes.
Mayo continued her career as a dancer, then signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in several of Goldwyn's movies. With Danny Kaye she played the dream-girl heroine in comedies including Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947).
At the zenith of her career, Mayo was seen as the quintessential voluptuous Hollywood beauty. It was said
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