Virginia Mayo (2)

American actress and dancer. Born November 30, 1920, St. Louis, Missouri. Died January 17, 2005, Los Angeles, California. She did a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Brothers' biggest box-office money-maker in the late 1940s. In Mayo’s singing roles, her vocals were dubbed by Louanne Hogan in The Princess and the Pirate (1944), by Betty Russell in The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), by Jeri Sullavan in A Song Is Born (1948) and by Bonnie Lou Williams in her singing roles at Warner Brothers (1949-1957). In Italy, most of Mayo’s films were dubbed by Dhia Cristiani, Rosetta Calavetta, Lidia Simoneschi, and Rina Morelli. Early in her career she went by her real name of Virginia Jones. She played a straight woman in vaudeville for four years to a performing horse act. The "horse" was comprised of two men known as the Mayo Brothers; giving her her stage name.