Virginia Mayo (November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American film actress. November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Beginnings

She was 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 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. Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Location in the state of Missouri Coordinates: Country United States State Missouri County Independent City Mayor Francis G. Slay (D) Area    - City 66. ... Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Eddie Cantor in the 1920s Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964) was a comedian, singer, actor, songwriter, and one of the most popular entertainers in the United States of America in the early and middle 20th century. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

Hollywood

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 made comedies including Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). // Samuel Goldwyn (July, 1879, Warsaw, Poland – January 31, 1974, Los Angeles, California, United States) was a widely known motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. ... Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ... Wonder Man is a 1945 movie starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. ... Release Date: March 21, 1946 by the Samuel Goldwyn Company (Trinity Productions) Run Time: 113 minutes ASIN: 0792844637 This movie stars Danny Kaye as shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan. ... The short story deals with an absent-minded man who drives his wife to the hairdressers, and then must run an errand while she is there. ...

In 1949's White Heat she took on the role of "Verna Jarrett," opposite James Cagney. Mayo later claimed in interviews that she was occasionally genuinely frightened by Cagney during the filming of the picture, because Cagney's acting was so realistic and natural. White Heat is a 1949 crime film starring James Cagney, Edmond OBrien and Virginia Mayo. ... James Francis Cagney, Jr. ...

She was cast against type in The Best Years of Our Lives, in which she gave a performance that garnered much acclaim. The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 movie about three servicemen (an air force officer, an infantry sergeant, and an ordinary sailor) trying to piece their lives back together after coming back home from World War II. It is based on a novel by MacKinlay Kantor, Glory for...

Her film career continued through the 1950s and 1960s, frequently in B-moviewesterns and adventure films. While she also appeared in musicals, Mayo's singing voice was always dubbed. The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. ...

Mayo has a star on the Walk of Fame, for her work in television, at 1751 Vine Street. A Walk of Fame is a public installation which honours celebrities by embedding star-shaped tiles bearing the names of famous people in a sidewalk. ...

In 1996 she received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The St. ...

Personal life

In 1947, she married actor Michael O'Shea, who died in 1973. They had one child, Mary Catherine O'Shea (born in 1953). The O'Shea family lived for several decades in Thousand Oaks, California. Thousand Oaks is a city in Ventura County, California, in the United States. ...

In the 1990s, Mayo donated her extensive collection of Hollywood memorabilia to the Thousand Oaks Library. She died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 2005 at the age of 84.

Filmography

• Follies Girl (1943)
• Jack London (1943)
• Up in Arms (1944)
• Seven Days Ashore (1944)
• The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
• Wonder Man (film) (1945)
• The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Out of the Blue (1947)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
• Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
• A Song Is Born (1948)
• Flaxy Martin (1949)
• Colorado Territory (1949)
• The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
• White Heat (1949)
• Red Light (1949)
• Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
• Backfire (1950)
• The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
• The West Point Story (1950)
• Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
• Along the Great Divide (1951)
• Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)
• Starlift (1951) (Cameo)
• Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952) (short subject)
• She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
• The Iron Mistress (1952)
• She's Back on Broadway (1953)
• South Sea Woman (1953)
• Devil's Canyon (1953)
• King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
• The Silver Chalice (1954)
• Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
• Great Day in the Morning (1956)
• The Proud Ones (1956)
• Congo Crossing (1956)
• The Big Land (1957)
• The Story of Mankind (1957)
• The Tall Stranger (1957)
• Fort Dobbs (1958)
• Westbound (1959)
• Revolt of the Mercenaries (1960)
• Jet Over the Atlantic (1960)
• Young Fury (1965)
• Castle of Evil (1966)
• Fort Utah (1967)
• Fugitive Lovers (1975)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• French Quarter (1977)
• The Haunted (1979)
• Evil Spirits (1990)
• Midnight Witness (1993)
• The Man Next Door (1997)

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External links

• Virginia Mayo at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Denny Jackson's Virginia Mayo page
• Brian's Drive-In Theater
• St. Louis Walk of Fame