Virginia Mayo

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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 trained as a dancer and worked for some time as a showgirl in New York before she signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn in the early 1940s after performing alongside Eddie Cantor . She subsequently appeared alongside comedians such as Bob Hope and Danny Kaye . Mayo was known for its beauty and the Sultan of Morocco is said to have called it tangible evidence of the creative power of an almighty creator .

After moving to Warner Brothers in 1949, she showed a hitherto unknown dramatic talent in Leap to Death as the morally depraved friend of James Cagney . In the following years she shot in several Technicolor adventures of the studio alongside stars like Gregory Peck , Paul Newman , Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas , Ronald Reagan and Alan Ladd in "The Iron Mistress", the story of Jim Bowie.

Her career ebbed from the mid-1950s in B-films and she made more appearances on television in the period that followed. In the 1980s she had guest appearances on series such as Love Boat and Remington Steele . During her life she was engaged in painting.

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

Mayo died on January 17, 2005 at the age of 84 from pneumonia and complications from congestive heart failure in a Los Angeles nursing home. She was married to the American actor Michael O'Shea (1906–1973) from 1947 until his death . From this marriage there was a daughter (* 1953). Mayo was buried next to her husband in the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery , Los Angeles County .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Virginia Mayo's grave in the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park at Find A Grave , accessed on February 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mayo, Virginia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Virginia Clara (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2005
Place of death Thousand Oaks , Los Angeles , California