1940s Film Star Virginia Mayo Dies at 84

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

LOS ANGELES - Virginia Mayo, the stunning blonde actress who brought beauty and romance to films of the 1940s and 1950s with such co-stars as James Cagney, Bob Hope, Gregory Peck, Danny Kaye and Ronald Reagan, died Monday at a nursing home in suburban Thousand Oaks. She was 84.

Mayo had been in declining health since battling pneumonia about a year ago, her daughter, Mary Johnston, told The Associated Press.

Her honey blonde hair and creamy, flawless face made Mayo ideal for the Technicolor musicals, westerns and adventures that were the rage in Hollywood in the 1940s and '50s.

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[method77]

RIP

[Amber]

that's too bad :(

[method77]

She was a babe back then

[KiwiCoromandel]

sad news indeed........i watch and enjoy a lot of those old movies...... r.i.p.

[Kooperman]

I have hundreds upon hundreds of movies from the days when the big studios made stars....and no starlet was more beautiful than Virginia Mayo.

[method77]

It must of been the black and white but all actresses looked good -hot- back then

[Cerebral_Assassin]

Nah, she looked fine in color too......