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Female Movie Stars Female Movie star From the l940's Our Female Movie Stars Inventory Audrey Hepburn - Betty Grable - Brenda Marshal - Clara Bow The It Girl - Claudette Colbert - Dorothy Lamour - Elsa Lanchester - Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein Small - Ginger Rogers - Gloria Stuart - Ingrid Bergman - Jean Arthur In Shane - Joan Crawford - Josephine Hutchinson in Son Of Frankenstein - Katherin Hepburn Signed Volope - Katherine Hepburn - Lauren Bacall - Mary Astor - Maureen O'Sullivan - Myrna Loy ** The Best Years - Neil Noel as Lois Lane - Olivia De Havilland as Maid Marion - Rita Hayworth - Teresa Wright - Una O' Connor - Virgina Mayo - click on image to enlarge Virgina Mayo A nice 8 x 10 Black and White of a pose of Ms. Mayo. Signed in blue sharpie in upper right of picture 'Virginia Mayo. Virginia Mayo, began her career as a chorus girl, her big break coming when she starred alongside Bob Hope in 1944's The Princess and the Pirate. She went on to sign a contract with the Warner Brothers studio, becoming one of its most popular stars. Mayo also starred alongside James Cagney in the crime drama White Heat. Born Virginia Clara Jones in St Louis, Missouri in 1920, she took her stage name from the boss of a vaudeville act where she worked before starting her film career. 'I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time,' she said in an interview in 2001. Mayo made her film debut in 1943's Jack London, a biopic of the White Fang author, and went on to star in five films with Danny Kaye in the 40s, including the 1947 classic The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Virginia Mayo the actress starred with big names including Ronald Reagan in two films, the 1949 romantic comedy The Girl From Jones Beach, and the musical She's Working Her Way Through College in 1952. Most famously, she appeared as the wife of a World War II veteran in the 1946 Oscar-winner The Best Years Of Our Lives, and as the wife of a killer, played by James Cagney, in the 1949 thriller White Heat. Longtime friend Mary Walsh described Mayo as 'very kind and very thoughtful'. 'She was beautiful in pictures but she was even more beautiful in person,' she said. 'I guess maybe it was because she was so good inside.' Mayo continued acting in films and on TV throughout the 70s and 80s, making her final appearance in a horror film, Evil Spirits, in 1990. She met her husband, actor Michael O'Shea, on the set of Jack London. The pair married in 1947 and had a daughter, Catherine Mary. Mayo never remarried following his death in 1973. Mayo died January 18, 2005, at a nursing home in suburban Thousand Oaks following a year of declining health. She was 84. $ 195.00+ S&H 0 1 View Cart/Checkout Animators - Cartoons - Comedians - Female Movie Stars - Historical - Hurrell Photo - Lobby Cards - Male Movie Stars - Monsters - Movie "Stuff" - Movie Themes - Movies Press Releases - Singers - Musicians - TV - Series - Home | Pictures | Celebrities | Shopping | Shipping | Customer Service | E-Mail