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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

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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To: Chinito

My wife is beautiful, but she shows the signs of having HAD MY CHILDREN!!! and this TURNS ME ON!!!


61 posted on 01/17/2005 5:11:47 PM PST by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: JellyJam

She was a swell kid and had great gams.


62 posted on 01/17/2005 5:14:52 PM PST by socal_parrot
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To: Jhensy
The problem is, Ted Turner bought up all of the old black and white movies when they could be had for pennies on the dollar. It is tuff to start a decent channel when he owns the rights to the movies.

I remember when I was a boy that you could turn on the TV almost every day and find at least two or three old black and white movies on. Now, thanks to Ted, those days are gone and we are stuck with 90 channesl of infomercials and crap. We were thinking about buying a new large screen HDTV but frankly, whats the point 98% of the stuff on tv is junk or PC crud.

63 posted on 01/17/2005 5:16:10 PM PST by Jmouse007 ("Negotiate and die!" Brought to you by "Islam the Religion of Peace tm")
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To: Savage Beast
If you remember, Virginia Mayo is the one who breaks up the marriage - not Dana Andrews.

And this is after he finds her fooling around at home with another man!

I have to admit the Best Years of Our Lives made an impression on me.

I usually forget "who played what" one week after I see it.
64 posted on 01/17/2005 5:17:29 PM PST by rcocean
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To: JellyJam

" She was living proof that there is a god"


65 posted on 01/17/2005 5:21:37 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: rcocean
"You're a lucky man.

"First to have known someone as beautiful as Virginia Mayo - and second, NOT to have married her."

Very good, RC. And very true.

I was not the only teenage boy who was out of his mind. Everyone was who knew her.

I truly would have done anything she wanted me to do. And I was otherwise level headed.

She was also very sweet, very gentle, and very gracious, and she had a wonderful talent of making you feel that you were the only person in the world, and the most important, even in a crowded room. And her voice was beautiful, soft and low, an excellent thing in a woman.

What can I say...?

Clearly the memory still stirs me.

66 posted on 01/17/2005 5:23:31 PM PST by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: Mears

Oh, I remember her from WHITE HEAT and THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (she played Dana Andrews wife-from-hell). Didn't know she was still alive.


67 posted on 01/17/2005 5:23:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Jmouse007

Interestingly, Ted Turner also knew the beautiful girl I have described.


68 posted on 01/17/2005 5:25:48 PM PST by Savage Beast (The internet is the newspaper of record.)
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To: Jhensy

TCM is well worth the price.... I think it's part of most basic cable packages now (it is for me). It shows a lot better stuff than HBO or Showtime. AMC has become unwatchable - commercials drive me nuts!


69 posted on 01/17/2005 5:32:49 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: rcocean

Now that's a set of gams!!!


70 posted on 01/17/2005 5:33:27 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Lazamataz
I weep for a loss of one of my own.

So you're either a lady, really old or both.

71 posted on 01/17/2005 5:36:05 PM PST by ShadowDancer (Vivere est cogitare)
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To: Lazamataz
She was a distant relation.

My condolences to your family. I repeat my point, however. She is in a far better place. The only sorrow is for those left behind who will miss her till they meet again.

She was one of the good ones in her profession. Luckily she lived in the first generation when performances such as hers were recorded FOREVER. She will be remembered by far more than remembered people of even greater talents who lived before her.

She had her chance and she took it, made the most of it and got it recorded for posterity. Not a bad deal, when all is said and done, for a professional epitaph. I will leave all other considerations to those that knew her.

72 posted on 01/17/2005 5:40:51 PM PST by Phsstpok ("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
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To: Jhensy

I think you have a winning idea.


73 posted on 01/17/2005 5:41:33 PM PST by mlmr (The Majority of the Murders Committed Worldwide have been Committed by Leftist Governments..........)
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To: Savage Beast

Jane Fonda?


74 posted on 01/17/2005 5:42:35 PM PST by rcocean
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To: Savage Beast
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.

Oh, they were sophistocated about alcohol, they just didn't enjoy the science of alcohol tolerance, and neither did the Dayton Group and others who lead each other into the only real "cure" for the terminal illness of dypsomania most drinkers never suffer from.

In the case of The Best Years of Our Lives alcohol was an imortant part of the story, for the maladjusted whose middle American families were intact, as well as the recreational drinker played by Virginia Mayo.

Few people know, for example, that Alcohol was consumed in early independent America in quantities far in excess of those times in our history most associated with high consumption, more than three and a half times the amount consumed today, per capita. Until around 1820, refusing a drink offered was a fighting offense.

The history of alcohol and America is a facinating story, and with regard to the "Greatest Generation," the consumption of alcohol in Best Years was vital to illustrate both the daunting adaptation to the end of the necessary war and the end of stratification of an imposed class military hierarchy replaced with a retyurn to the American ideal of equality.

Drink up.

75 posted on 01/17/2005 5:42:37 PM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: Jhensy
I know there's Turner Classic Movies, but that's a pay channel and I can't be bothered.

Can't be bothered? TCM is the ONLY reason to continue to pay anything for cable's higher tiers. It is the channel you're describing, to a tee.

Why should such Glory be "free?"

Unless and until TCM goes "AMC," I'll pay for the extra tier... for more than 100 years of the deepest vault out there. I gotta hand it to Terrible Ted for making that collection available, and for the preservation and presentation of most of the history of real cinema.

76 posted on 01/17/2005 5:54:07 PM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: Mears

stretch here...The Old Geezer

Don't forget me... I am stil living. The Best Years Of our Life is my favorite movie. I was in The army Air Corps when that movie was made... and it really brings back memories... Frederick March and Myrna Loy. I forget the name of the sailor with no hands but he also had a great part.... Good, Good movie.


77 posted on 01/17/2005 5:57:32 PM PST by Stretch (Rats, skunks, bugs and other vermin protect their babies; Liberals kill theirs)
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To: Lancey Howard
I just watched 'Best Years of Our Lives' the other night. What a great movie!

Me too, for the first time. WHAT a GREAT MOVIE!

78 posted on 01/17/2005 6:02:11 PM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: The Innovator's Solution by Christensen & Raynor)
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To: JellyJam
Anyone who can watch "The Best Years of Our Lives" without a tear in their eye is a pillar of strength.

Puts me in the mind of Oscar Wilde's remark that it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Dicken's Little Nell. I agree, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by the "The Best Years of Our Lives".

79 posted on 01/17/2005 6:04:49 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: dighton

Thanks for the sad ping, bud...


80 posted on 01/17/2005 6:08:12 PM PST by TomServo ("There's a train that leaves at 8:30. - Be under it.")
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