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Virginia Mayo
Highest Rated: 100% Wonder Man (1945)
Lowest Rated: 13% The Silver Chalice (1954)
Birthday: Nov 30, 1920
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Wholesome blonde actor who played decorative romantic leads opposite comedians Bob Hope and Danny Kaye in several Sam Goldwyn Technicolor romps of the 1940s including "The Princess and the Pirate" (1944) and "Wonder Man" (1945). Goldwyn also tried her in his acclaimed, Oscar-winning study of the difficulties of veterans' postwar readjustment, "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), in which she showed a likeable toughness and ordinariness rather than the usual peaches and cream appeal. Mayo was later in a few creditable "straight" roles including, most memorably, a pair of fine, rough-edged films for director Raoul Walsh, "White Heat" and "Colorado Territory" (both 1949), which suggested a greater acting potential than had been seen to that point.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Next Door | Lucia (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bible According to Hollywood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midnight Witness | Kitty (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Evil Spirits | Janet Wilson (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Runaways | Liz Trent (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | French Quarter |
Countess Willie Piazza/ |
- | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Haunted | Michelle (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 14% | 60% | Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Miss Battley (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fort Utah | Linda Lee (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Castle of Evil | Mary Theresa "Sable" Pulaski (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Fury | Sara McCoy (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jet Over the Atlantic | Jean Gurney (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Westbound | Norma Putnam (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Fort Dobbs | Celia Gray (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Big Land | Helen Jagger (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | The Story of Mankind | Cleopatra (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 15% | The Tall Stranger | Ellen (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Proud Ones | Sally (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Congo Crossing | Louise Whitman (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Great Day in the Morning | Ann Merry Alaine (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Pearl of the South Pacific | Rita Delaine (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 13% | 17% | The Silver Chalice | Helena (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | King Richard and the Crusaders | Lady Edith Plantagenet (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | She's Back on Broadway | Catherine Terris (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Devil's Canyon | Abby Nixon (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | South Sea Woman | Ginger Martin (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | She's Working Her Way Through College |
Angela Gardner/ |
- | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Iron Mistress | Judalon de Bornay (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Painting the Clouds With Sunshine | Carol (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 78% | Captain Horatio Hornblower | Lady Barbara Wellesley (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Starlift | Self | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Along the Great Divide | Ann Keith (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 59% | The Flame and the Arrow | Anne de Hesse (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | The West Point Story | Eve Dillon (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Backfire | Nurse Julie Benson (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Flaxy Martin | Flaxy Martin (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Red Light | Carla North (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | The Girl From Jones Beach | Ruth Wilson (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Colorado Territory | Colorado Carson (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 94% | 93% | White Heat | Verna Jarrett (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Always Leave Them Laughing | Nancy Eagen (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smart Girls Don't Talk | Smart Girls Don't Talk (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 50% | 75% | A Song Is Born | Honey Swanson (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Out of the Blue | Deborah Tyler (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 82% | 80% | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Rosalind van Hoorn (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 97% | 93% | The Best Years of Our Lives | Marie Derry (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 60% | 69% | The Kid From Brooklyn | Polly Pringle (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 84% | Wonder Man | Ellen Shanley (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Princess and the Pirate | Princess Margaret (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Days Ashore | Carol Dean (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Jack London Story | Mamie (Character) | - | 1943 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64% | No Score Yet | The Naked Truth | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daktari | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Beauty Jamison (Guest Star) | 1958 |