| Virginia Mayo | |
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| Born | Virginia Clara Jones November 30, 1920 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 2005 (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Years active | 1939 - 1997 |
| Spouse(s) | Michael O'Shea (1947-1973) |
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Early life
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. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s She appeared in vaudeville for three years in the act, appearing with Eddie Cantor on Broadway in 1941's Banjo Eyes. Eddie Cantor ( January 31, 1892 - October 10, 1964) was an American Comedian, Singer, Actor, Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Banjo Eyes is a musical with a book by Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson, based on the play “Three Men on a Horse” by John Cecil Holm
Hollywood
Mayo continued her career as a dancer, then signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in several of Goldwyn's movies. Samuel Goldwyn ( ca. July 1879 &ndash 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning producer 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). Danny Kaye ( January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American award-winning Actor, Singer and Comedian The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 Comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1947 Comedy film, loosely based on the short story of the same name by James Thurber.
In 1949's White Heat she took on the unsympathetic role of the cold and treacherous "Verna Jarrett," opposite James Cagney. White Heat is a 1949 Crime film starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly James Francis Cagney Jr ( July 17, 1899 &ndash March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award -winning American Film 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.
She was also cast against type as a shallow golddigger in The Best Years of Our Lives, in which she gave a performance that garnered much acclaim. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
Her film career continued through the 1950s and 1960s, frequently in B-movie westerns and adventure films. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double While she also appeared in musicals, Mayo's singing voice was always dubbed. In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a Motion picture.
Mayo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine.
In 1996 she received a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The St Louis Walk of Fame honors well-known people from St Louis Missouri who made contributions to Culture of the United States.
Personal life
In 1947, she married actor Michael O'Shea, who died in 1973. Michael O'Shea ( March 17, 1906, Hartford Connecticut - December 4, 1973, Dallas Texas) was an American character 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, commonly referred to as "TO" by residents is a city in southeastern 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 (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)
- Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)
- Revolt of the Mercenaries (La Rivolta dei mercenari) (1961)
- 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)
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
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mayo, Virginia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Virginia Clara |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920-11-30 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2005-1-17 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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