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Actor Born: November 30, 1920 in St. Louis, MO Death: January 17, 2005 in Thousand Oaks, CA Biography:Radiantly beautiful blonde actress "Virginia Mayo" was a chorus dancer when she began her film career as a bit player in 1942. She rose to face as "Danny Kaye"'s leading lady in a series of splashy Technicolor musicals produced by "Samuel Goldwyn". Though never regarded as a great actress, she was disturbingly convincing as "Dana Andrews"' faithless wife in Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) and as "James Cagney"'s sluttish gun moll in "White Heat" (1949). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mayo was one of the most popular female stars at Warner Bros., appearing in musicals, melodramas and westerns. Many of her characters were so outre that one wonders whether Mayo was having some sport with us: her turn as "Jack Palance"'s paramour in "The Silver Chalice" (1955) and as Cleopatra in the guilty pleasure "The Story of Mankind" (1957) immediately come to mind. And it is Mayo who, in Warners'... Full Biography
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