

That same year she wedded Michael O’Shea and would stay with him until his death in 1973. She ultimately struck paydirt in 1947 with a plum assignment in the well-received The Secret Life of Walter Mitty as Rosalind van Hoorn. Her characters may have been coming in slow, but with each one her vogue with audiences rose. Her rage boosting with every arrival, Mayo was cast in two more films in 1946, The Best Year’s of Our Lives, The Kid from Brooklyn and accepted good notices as Andrews’ avaricious, unfaithful wife. After one year she appeared as Ellen Shavley in Wonder Man. In the year 1944 Mayo was cast as Princess Margaret in The Princess and the Pirate. Understanding there was more to her than her obvious ravishing glamour, producers thought it was time to give her larger and decent characters. After that, she had a walk-on part in Follies Girl in that exact year. Louis Municipal Opera before she was ratified to a contract by Samuel Goldwyn after being caught by an MGM talent scout during a Broadway revue. Goldwyn, however, thought that her talent as an actress was there and chosen her in a minor character in 1943’s film Jack London.

After succeeding from high school in 1937, she evolved a member of the St. Her aunt regulated a dance studio and she started taking lessons at the age of six. Mayo was enthusiastic to show business from an early age. Louis region: her great-great-great-grandfather fulfilled in the American Revolution and then created the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois, located right across the Mississippi River from its namesake. The family had a prosperous heritage in the St. American actress and dancer Virginia Clara Jones was born on 30th November 1920, in St.
