Posted on 01/17/2005 4:12:25 PM PST by JellyJam
Virginia Mayo, the beautiful blond who rose to movie stardom in the 1940s in comedies opposite Bob Hope and Danny Kaye and had memorable dramatic turns with James Cagney in "White Heat" and Dana Andrews in "The Best Years of Our Lives," died today. She was 84.
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"Relentless heat! Savage nights! 500 desperate men! ....caged up with one woman!"
Wasn't that the basis for a reality show on Fox this season?
AHHHHHHHH! Damn, how about some warning next time!
that's my favorite!
>Don't be funny, there are a lot of us who remember her still around!!!!<
Yeah.
Ah, yes. Walter Mitty....pocketa, pocketa, pocketa...
Yeah, but it was 500 desperate gay men (lol).
I remember her from a pirate movie, when I was a kid, but don't remember the name. Might have had Errol Flynn in it.
Remember the scene in which Teresa Wright--it was Teresa Wright, not Peggy Ann Gardner--wakes Dana Andrews from a nightmare, and he says, "Who are you?" and she says, "Peggy"; so he pulls her into the bed and kisses her and says, "Peggy!" and she pulls away and says, "Not that Peggy!"--
But did you ever notice how much alcohol those people consume? I think it's because prohibition had not been over all that long, and Americans were not sophisticated about alcohol.
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!
Sounds like a night with the leadership of the Democratic Party.
I doubt that Laz is an 84 year old woman
She was a distant relation.
Who wouldn't have wanted to "hold the Mayo" when she was in her prime?
It's still the best movie ever made about the problems that veterans face when they come home, from trying to get jobs to dealing with people who don't care about what they did to their own families not really understanding what they went through. As far as the drinking goes, prohibition had been over for thirteen years when the movie was made. And everybody seemed to chain-smoke no matter where they were, too. Ah, those pre-PC times...
TBYOOL..one of the best pics ever..FYI...the movie was based , faithfully, on a novel.."Glory for Me"..by MacKinlay Kantor..one of the finest American writers of the 20th century..now hardly remember. The book's long out of print..you can find an old copy on the net for about $10..I suggest you do so...you'll enjoy it..
For those who mentioned Best Years of Our Lives, Harold Russell's obituary.
Best Years Of Our Lives has to be one of the greatest movies of all time. Tremendous performances all around - Frederick March, Dana Andrews, Virginia Mayo, the real life WWII amputee. Best scenes: When the daughter tells her parents they don't understand because their marriage is so perfect, and they talk about all the times they said they hated each other and meant it, March's drunken talk at the Bank's dinner honoring him, and I pick Dana Andrews having a flashback as he sits in the cockpit of one of a thousand junked B29's.
Whoa, I've been staring at this poster in my basement for years now (an original bought about 20 years ago when I thought I'd start collecting movie posters... it remains my only one.)
That's why the name sounded familiar to me. I had no idea she was still alive. RIP, pretty woman.
And who the hell is George Nader?
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