Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo ( born November 30, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, † January 17, 2005 in Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles, California; actually Virginia Clara Jones) was an American film actress.

Life

Virginia Mayo was trained as a dancer and worked for a time as a showgirl in New York, before the beginning of the 1940s after appearing alongside Eddie Cantor signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn. She has appeared in the following years alongside comedians such as Bob Hope and Danny Kaye. Mayo was known for her beauty and the Sultan of Morocco they should therefore have referred to as tangible evidence of the creative power of an Almighty Creator.

After a move to Warner Brothers shows in 1949 jump to his death as morally depraved girlfriend of James Cagney a hitherto unknown dramatic talent. In the following years, she turned in a number of Technicolor adventures of the studio alongside such stars as Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ronald Reagan.

Her career waned in the mid- 1950s in B- movies and they came in the aftermath increasingly on television. Even in the 1980s, she had guest appearances on such series as The Love Boat and Remington Steele. Her life she engaged in painting.

In her honor, there is a star on the Walk of Fame.

Filmography (selection)

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