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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). She worked extensively during the 1950s, but after this her appearances were fewer. She worked occasionally until her final performance in 1997.
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Virginia Mayo Biography / Wiki
| Name | Virginia Mayo |
| Also Know | Virginia Clara Jones, Ginny |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Date of Birth | 1920-11-30 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 84 |
| Deathday | 2005-01-17 |
Virginia Mayo Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Backfire | Nurse Julie Benson | 1950-01-26 | When he’s discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on th… |
| Flaxy Martin | Flaxy Martin | 1949-02-15 | Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder…. |
| The Silver Chalice | Helena | 1954-12-20 | A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels… |
| Smart Girls Don’t Talk | Linda Vickers | 1948-10-09 | A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans…. |
| Great Day in the Morning | Ann Merry Alaine | 1956-05-16 | After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundame… |
| Pearl of the South Pacific | Rita Delaine | 1955-09-16 | Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has mad… |
| Revolt of the Mercenaries | Lady Patrizia, Duchessa di Rivalta | 1961-07-27 | In this drama, a widowed duchess finds herself drawn to leader of a mercenary band. The cavalier leader offers to save her from her avaricious, land-g… |
| Congo Crossing | Louise Whitman | 1956-07-01 | Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Eur… |
| She’s Working Her Way Through College | Angela Gardner | 1952-07-09 | Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor’s wife. A… |
| She’s Back on Broadway | Catherine Terris | 1953-03-14 | When Catherine Terris’s career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs…Broadway! She takes the lead in a… |
| Devil’s Canyon | Abby Nixon | 1953-08-13 | An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun…. |
| French Quarter | Countess Willie Piazza / Ida | 1978-08-01 | Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers…. |
| The Princess and the Pirate | Princess Margaret | 1944-11-17 | Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, h… |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Lady Barbara Wellesley | 1951-04-10 | A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, th… |
| The Flame and the Arrow | Anne de Hesse | 1950-07-07 | Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency aga… |
| Red Light | Carla North | 1949-09-30 | Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pay… |
| Wonder Man | Ellen Shanley | 1945-01-01 | Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson’s thugs k… |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Rosalind van Hoorn | 1947-09-01 | Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream b… |
| Colorado Territory | Colorado Carson | 1949-06-11 | In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going s… |
| Castle of Evil | Mary Theresa ‘Sable’ Pulaski | 1966-11-01 | The relatives of a recently deceased man named Kovac gather at is creepy mansion for the reading of the will. Before the will can be read, however, th… |
| Along the Great Divide | Ann Keith | 1951-06-02 | New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive… |
| White Heat | Verna Jarrett | 1949-09-02 | A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After th… |
| A Song Is Born | Honey Swanson | 1948-10-19 | The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub… |
| King Richard and the Crusaders | Lady Edith Plantagenet | 1954-08-07 | Based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land i… |
| The West Point Story | Eve Dillon | 1950-11-25 | A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications…. |
| The Iron Mistress | Judalon de Bornay | 1952-11-19 | In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse’… |
| Always Leave Them Laughing | Nancy Eagen | 1949-11-26 | A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success…. |
| The Proud Ones | Sally | 1956-05-15 | Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattl… |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Polly Pringle | 1946-03-21 | Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh’s sister. The newspaper… |
| Jet Over The Atlantic | Jean Gurney | 1959-11-04 | Director Byron Haskin’s 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready… |
| South Sea Woman | Ginger Martin | 1953-06-27 | Marine Sergeant James O’Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time… |
| Westbound | Norma Putnam | 1959-04-25 | As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold t… |
| Fort Dobbs | Celia Gray | 1958-04-18 | An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas’ 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richar… |
| The Tall Stranger | Ellen | 1957-11-17 | A Union soldier returns to his western home at the end of the Civil War and finds himself caught in the middle of a land war between his greedy half-b… |
| The Girl from Jones Beach | Ruth Wilson | 1949-07-16 | Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed “The Randolph Girl”. What the world doesn’t know is that his… |
| The Big Land | Helen Jagger | 1957-03-01 | Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranch… |
| Young Fury | Sara McCoy | 1965-02-01 | A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the lead… |
| Fort Utah | Linda Lee | 1967-09-01 | An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself…. |
| Haunted | Michelle | 1977-03-04 | In Arizona during the Civil War, a woman is accused of witchcraft, tied to a horse and left to die in the desert. One hundred years later, the descend… |
| Painting The Clouds With Sunshine | Carol | 1951-10-10 | The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933…. |
| Out of the Blue | Deborah Tyler | 1947-04-21 | Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian … |
| Evil Spirits | Janet Wilson | 1990-01-01 | A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax… |
| Seven Days Ashore | Carol Dean | 1944-04-25 | Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends…. |
| Starlift | Virginia Mayo | 1951-12-14 | To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues…. |
| James Cagney: Top of the World | Herself | 1992-07-05 | Documentary on the life and career of James Cagney… |
| Road to Home | Archieve footage | 1945-07-04 | WWII U.S. Navy training film MN-5075a that addresses the end of the war. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby try to convince sailors not to desert but to wait f… |
| Fugitive Lovers | Liz Trent | 1975-11-27 | A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband…. |
| The Bible According to Hollywood | Herself | 1994-01-01 | Filmmaker Phillip Dye’s documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten Commandments… |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | Marie Derry | 1946-12-25 | It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive… |
| Midnight Witness | Kitty | 1993-02-25 | Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims…. |
| Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | (archive footage) | 2008-10-21 | Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film…. |
| Do It Debbie’s Way | 1983-03-11 | “Do it Debbie’s way” is an aerobics workout video hosted by actress Debbie Reynolds. It features other well known actresses taking her class such as T… | |
| Jack London | Mamie | 1943-12-24 | The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916)…. |
| The Story of Mankind | Cleopatra | 1957-11-08 | The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil…. |
| The Man Next Door | Lucia | 1997-01-01 | A community is shocked to learn that their new neighbor is a convicted sex offender who has been paroled…. |
| Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach | Self | 1996-03-15 | Born November 2, 1913, he went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Step… |
| Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Miss Battley | 1976-07-26 | A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s…. |
| White Heat: Top of the World | Herself (archive footage) | 2005-01-01 | … |
| Inside the Dream Factory | Self | 1995-11-01 | Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine…. |
| Up in Arms | Nurse Joanna | 1944-02-17 | Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship…. |
| Follies Girl | Chorine | 1943-06-26 | In PRC’s Follies Girl, Wendy Barrie plays dress designer Anne Merriday, who becomes the object of middle-aged millionaire J. B. Hamlin’s (J.C. Nugent)… |
| A Star Is Born World Premiere | Self | 1954-09-28 | Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade… |
Credit: TMDB
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