Virginia Mayo — Actor (19)
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The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Kid from Brooklyn
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Preferisco la vacca / Der Held des Tages …
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
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Wonder Man (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wonder Man
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: L'uomo meraviglia / Mein zauberhafter Bruder …
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.
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She's Back on Broadway (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
She's Back on Broadway
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Virginia Mayo / Gene Nelson …
other title: Back to Broadway / Catherine et son amant …
When Catherine Terris's career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Gordon Evans, the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Evans is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Evans put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production. The way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.
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She's Working Her Way Through College (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
She's Working Her Way Through College
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Virginia Mayo / Ronald Reagan …
other title: Il collegio si diverte / Con fuego en su corazón …
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
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A Song Is Born (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Song Is Born
director: Howard Hawks actor: Danny Kaye / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Venere e il professore / A Canção Prometida …
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up.
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Young Fury (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Young Fury
director: Christian Nyby actor: Rory Calhoun / Virginia Mayo …
other title: I lupi del Texas / A Vingança do Foragido …
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action. The leader's father is an infamous ex-gunfighter, and he straps his guns on one more time.
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Along the Great Divide (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Along the Great Divide
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Kirk Douglas / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Sabbie rosse / Embrutecidos Pela Violência …
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?
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Red Light (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Red Light
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: George Raft / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Luce rossa / Luz roja …
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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The Proud Ones (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Proud Ones
director: Robert D. Webb actor: Robert Ryan / Virginia Mayo …
other title: La grande sfida / Die Furchtlosen …
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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Flaxy Martin (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Flaxy Martin
director: Richard L. Bare actor: Virginia Mayo / Zachary Scott …
other title: L'amante del gangster / Blondes Gift …
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.
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Out of the Blue (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Out of the Blue
director: Leigh Jason actor: George Brent / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Se busca una mujer / Fulmini a ciel sereno
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
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Evil Spirits (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Evil Spirits
director: Gary Graver actor: Karen Black / Arte Johnson …
A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.
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Westbound (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Westbound
director: Budd Boetticher actor: Randolph Scott / Virginia Mayo …
other title: L'oro della California / Messer an der Kehle …
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.