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Actress Virginia Mayo dies ("White Heat," "The Best Years of Our Lives")
Los Angeles Times ^ | Jan. 17, 2005 | LA Times

Posted on 01/17/2005 4:12:25 PM PST by JellyJam

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To: JellyJam
What's the story behind that photo?

In the early 70s, I put together an employee outing to see Virginia in "No, No, Nanette." Over 200 co-workers went. Afterwards, I got to go backstage to meet her. She was very tired - the show was physically grueling - but she was very friendly. And, even at about 50, very attractive.

101 posted on 01/17/2005 8:56:32 PM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: Mike Bates

I was going to say, she looked wonderful. A night for you to cherish forever. Thanx for sharing it.


102 posted on 01/17/2005 8:59:21 PM PST by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: rcocean
Did he have it better than Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver?
103 posted on 01/17/2005 9:03:42 PM PST by Chunga
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To: Malesherbes
I wonder if any of today's stars will look half as good as Virginia Mayo when their youth is gone.

These days, they'll fight it for as long as they can with the money they have. I think Jamie Lee Curtis started a one-woman campaign to simply acknowledge: age happens.

104 posted on 01/17/2005 9:15:54 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rcocean

Oh my. Those are some GREAT legs!


105 posted on 01/17/2005 9:21:03 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ValerieUSA

The Man Next Door (1997) .... Lucia
Midnight Witness (1993) .... Kitty
... aka Maximum Force 2 (video title)
Evil Spirits (1990) .... Janet Wilson


"Santa Barbara" (1984) TV Series .... Peaches DeLight (1984)
Do It Debbie's Way (1983) (V)


The Haunted (1979) .... Michelle
... aka Haunted (USA: video title)
... aka The Glass Cage
French Quarter (1977) .... Countess Willie Piazza/Ida
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) .... Miss Batley
Fugitive Lovers (1975) .... Liz Trent
... aka The Runaways


Fort Utah (1967) .... Linda Lee
Castle of Evil (1966) .... Mary Theresa 'Sable' Pulaski
Young Fury (1965) .... Sarah McCoy
Rivolta dei mercenari, La (1960) .... Lady Patrizia, Duchesse de Revalte
... aka Mercenarios, Los (Spain)
... aka Revolt of the Mercenaries
McGarry and His Mouse (1960) (TV) .... Kitty McGarry
Jet Over the Atlantic (1960) .... Jean Gurney


Westbound (1959) .... Norma Putnam
Fort Dobbs (1958) .... Celia Gray
The Tall Stranger (1957) .... Ellen
... aka The Rifle (USA)
... aka Walk Tall (USA: alternative title)
The Story of Mankind (1957) .... Cleopatra
The Big Land (1957) .... Helen Jagger
... aka Stampeded (UK)
Congo Crossing (1956) .... Louise Whitman
The Proud Ones (1956) .... Sally, Cass' Woman/Hotel Owner
Great Day in the Morning (1956) .... Ann Alaine
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) .... Rita Delaine
The Silver Chalice (1954) .... Helena
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) .... Lady Edith
Devil's Canyon (1953) .... Abby Nixon
South Sea Woman (1953) .... Ginger Martin
She's Back on Broadway (1953) .... Catherine Terris
The Iron Mistress (1952) .... Judalon de Bornay
She's Working Her Way Through College (1952) .... Angela Gardner/'Hot Garters Gertie'
Starlift (1951) .... Cameo appearance
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951) .... Carol
Along the Great Divide (1951) .... Ann Keith
... aka The Travelers (USA)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) .... Lady Barbara Wellesley
... aka Captain Horatio Hornblower (USA)
The West Point Story (1950) .... Eve Dillon
... aka Fine and Dandy (UK)
The Flame and the Arrow (1950) .... Anne
Backfire (1950) .... Julie Benson


Always Leave Them Laughing (1949) .... Nancy Eagen
Red Light (1949) .... Carla North
White Heat (1949) .... Verna Jarrett
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) .... Ruth Wilson
Colorado Territory (1949) .... Colorado Carson
... aka North of the Rio Grande (USA: alternative title)
Flaxy Martin (1949) .... Flaxy Martin
A Song Is Born (1948) .... Honey Swanson
Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948) .... Linda Vickers
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) .... Rosalind van Hoorn
Out of the Blue (1947) .... Deborah Tyler
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .... Marie Derry
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) .... Polly Pringle
Wonder Man (1945) .... Ellen Shanley
The Princess and the Pirate (1944) .... Princess Margaret
Seven Days Ashore (1944) .... Carol Dean
Up in Arms (1944) (uncredited) .... Goldwyn Girl
Jack London (1943) .... Mamie
... aka The Adventures of Jack London
... aka The Life of Jack London
... aka The Story of Jack London (USA)
Follies Girl (1943) (uncredited) .... Extra


106 posted on 01/18/2005 3:01:28 AM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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To: Pharmboy
hmmm ... none of those movies look like the one.
Here's another poster

107 posted on 01/18/2005 3:13:49 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: rcocean
The Flame and the Arrow -- I think I saw this one:


108 posted on 01/18/2005 3:20:01 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: JellyJam

I love that movie. One of my favorites from that era. Also a big Susan Hayward fan, loved "My Foolish Heart" and BTW, also in my early 40s


109 posted on 01/18/2005 3:21:30 AM PST by SAMS
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To: Oatka

My favorite all-time scene from any movie is when Fredric March comes home and his son lets him in the apartment and his daughter sees him, he shushes them both and starts for the kitchen where Myrna Loy is finishing the dishes and before he gets there, she senses who it is.

I tear-up just thinking about it.

It's definitely a great movie all the way around.


110 posted on 01/18/2005 3:33:51 AM PST by gracex7 (The LORD is not slack concerning His promise....but is longsuffering to us-ward. 2 Peter 3:9)
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To: ValerieUSA
She was something. This one's my favorite, though:

Alone in a canyon with 500 crazed men...my oh my. In Technicolor.

111 posted on 01/18/2005 3:46:34 AM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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To: Pharmboy

And CAGED!
No one ever gets caged any more...
*sigh*
Those were the good old days...


112 posted on 01/18/2005 4:01:51 AM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: rcocean

No, not Jane. Someone else.


113 posted on 01/18/2005 5:12:35 AM PST by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: Lancey Howard

More interesting is the words, "3-D" while most youthful males were hoping to see DD in 3D.


114 posted on 01/18/2005 5:17:14 AM PST by Sensei Ern
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To: Lazamataz
She was a distant relation.

Everybody is a distant relation!
115 posted on 01/18/2005 5:19:44 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: rcocean
I tell you Al Stephenson (Frederick March) was one lucky guy. Married to Myrna Loy with Teresa Wright as a daughter.

But he should have sent the son off to military school....

118 posted on 01/18/2005 5:36:32 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Everybody is a distant relation!

She's a little closer than everybody.

119 posted on 01/18/2005 5:37:03 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Savage Beast
Also--remember the scene in which nice-girl Teresa tells her parents: "I'm going to break that marriage up!" The must have been pretty racy stuff in those days!

And then her parents go on to tell her about all the times during their own marriage when they "hated" each other!!! And Millie is pretty understanding when Al, drunk, tells her she's a "bewitching little creature" who "reminds me of my wife." She just plays along... now there's understanding for you.

"Best Years" is one of my all time favorite movies.

120 posted on 01/18/2005 5:38:47 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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