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Virginia Mayo was an American actress and dancer. Best known for a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye, Mayo was Warner Brothers' biggest box-office money-maker in the late 1940s. Wikipedia

Vintage postcard by GM. Photo: Warner Bros. American actress and dancer Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) is best known for her series of film comedies with Danny Kaye, including Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (Norman Z. McLeod, 1946), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947). The popular actress personified the dream girl or girl-next-door and audiences—particularly males—flocked to theatres just to see her blonde hair and classic looks on-screen in Technicolor. It made Mayo Warner Brothers biggest box office money maker in the late 1940s. Going against stereotype, Mayo accepted the supporting role of unsympathetic gold-digger Marie Derry in the Oscar winning drama The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946). Her performance drew favourable reviews from critics as the film also became the highest-grossing film in the US since Gone with the Wind. Later she appeared opposite James Cagney in White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949), Burt Lancaster in The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur, 1950), and Gregory Peck in Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951). At the zenith of her career, Mayo was seen as the quintessential voluptuous Hollywood beauty: she "looked like a pinup painting come to life". Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

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