Virginia Mayo

Great Day In The Morning is a 1956 film, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo, set in 1860 s Denver. The film centers on Owen Pentecost (Robert Stack) from North Carolina, who comes to Denver on a whim...

In this article: Denver, Robert Stack, Great Day in the Morning, Jacques Tourneur, Ruth Roman, and North Carolina

A Song Is Born (1948 ) is a Technicolor musical film remake, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, of 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper. It was directed by Howard Hawks from an original story by Billy Wilder, produced by Samuel...

In this article: A Song Is Born, Danny Kaye, Ball of Fire, Benny Goodman, and Steve Cochran

...on the short story by Vera Caspary who also co-wrote the screenplay. It stars George Brent, Ann Dvorak, Turhan Bey and Virginia Mayo. It was directed by Leigh Jason. Arthur Earthleigh (Brent) lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village...

In this article: Vera Caspary, Dog, George Brent, Turhan Bey, Ann Dvorak, and Brandy

The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope. It was a lavish pirate film with lots of...

In this article: Princess Margaret, The King, The Princess and the Pirate, Samuel Goldwyn, Bob Hope, and Academy Awards

Flaxy Martin (1949 ) is a film noir directed by Richard L. Bare. The crime thriller features Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, among others. The picture was based on a story written by David Lang. The film tells of mob lawyer...

In this article: Flaxy Martin, Zachary Scott, Richard L. Bare, and Dorothy Malone

(released in the U.S. without the "R.N.") is a 1951 naval adventure film. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, and Robert Beatty. It was based upon three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, The...

In this article: Horatio Hornblower, Gregory Peck, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., HMS Lydia, El Supremo, A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours

...staple The Maltese Falcon (both 1941). With Raoul Walsh repeating directorial labors, this grown-up movie for its day (note Virginia Mayo's open-legged body language) transformed Territory into a nifty Joel McCrea train-robbery Western that...

In this article: DVD, I Love You, Man, Francois Begaudeau, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Robert Downey Jr, Oscar, Blu-ray, and Jamie Foxx

...of Fire," with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, director Howard Hawks revisited the same material in a musical, with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Kaye plays a shy musicologist with a special interest in jazz, and she's a jazz-singing gun...

In this article: Danny Kaye, DVD, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Howard Hawks, Gary Cooper, A Song Is Born, Charlie Barnet, and Louis Armstrong

Revisiting Paul Newman s Inauspicious Movie Debut Virginia Mayo and Paul Newman in The Silver Chalice (1954), now available on DVD. A young, dewy Paul Newman made his unlikely movie debut in this 1954 biblical epic, filmed in color and...

In this article: Paul Newman, Charles Laughton, David Lean, Blu-ray, Victor Saville, Warner Home Video, The Silver Chalice, and Arch Oboler

...Thee," the vintage cartoon "Captain Hareblower" and an audio-only feature: the "Lux Radio Theater" adaptation with Peck and Virginia Mayo. · "Madame Bovary," with Jennifer Jones as the title character in this lush 1949 adaptation of the...

In this article: Billy Budd, Oscar, Terence Stamp, Ronald Colman, Gregory Peck, My Country 'Tis of Thee, DVD, Madame Bovary, The Three Musketeers, and Warner Home Video