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Virginia Mayo
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school, and by the time Mayo was 21 she landing film work in small roles and often as a dancer. She signed a contract with SBorn Virginia Jones in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 1920, lovely Virginia Mayo began dance training while still a young girl. She continued dancing after completing amuel Goldwyn in 1943, and the next year Goldwyn gave Mayo her big break in the Bob Hope comedy The Princess and the Pirate (1944). Goldwyn often cast the beautiful actress in comedies, such as the Danny Kaye vehicles Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). Mayo married actor Michael O'Shea in 1947, and the following year she left Goldwyn for Warner Bros. At the new studio Mayo was cast in a number of film noir thrillers such as Flaxy Martin (1949) and White Heat (1949). Beginning in 1949 when she acted in the Joel McCrea western Colorado Territory, she enjoyed a long association with westerns films.
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