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Virginia Mayo - what members say

The Best Years Of Our Lives review by A customer from Doncaster

A Hollywood Classic 26 October 2008
...a Andrews is at his peak with his performance of an airman unable to fit in and Virginia Mayo plays his good time girl of a wife whom he married during the war after only kn... Read customer review

White Heat review by ChesterDent from London, England

That's usin' your head kid. All right, snap it up. 18 January 2007
...rutal, fast-paced, highly entertaining stuff with a first-rate cast (especially Virginia Mayo as the traitorous, trashy wife) and an excellent script. Raoul Walsh was one of... Read customer review

Virginia Mayo - filmography

The Man Next Door on DVD (1998)
Starring: Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo, John Furlong
Director: R.C. Spence
Certificate:
Clayton Davis returns to the neighbourhood which he grew up in and behind the good looks and charisma he is hiding a deadly secret...

24% from 27 members

Starlift (1951)
Starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo
Director: Roy del Ruth
Certificate:
Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II. The wisp of a plot concerns Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) and Rick Williams (Ron Hagherty), San Francisco-based airmen who serve as crew members on a shuttle to Korea. To impress a ..read more »

10% from 1 member
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate:
During the Napoleonic wars, a British naval captain has adventures in Central American waters.

74% from 39 members
Currently unavailable

James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... on DVD (1950)
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day
Director: Roy del Ruth
Certificate:
Cagney is Broadway director Bix Bixby, fallen on hard times due to his gambling habit, who reluctantly agrees to go to West Point military academy to help the students put on a show. Bixby, of course, has an ulterior motive - he wants to poach student star Tom Fletcher (Gordon MacRae) for his uncle'..read more »

60% from 22 members

White Heat on DVD (1949)
Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate:
After robbing a mail coach of $300,000 and murdering four men in the process, Cody Jarrett (Jimmy Cagney) and his gang hide away in a mountain log cabin. Cody is so attached to his Ma (Margaret Wycherly), he neglects his wife Verna (Virginia Mayo), on whom Big Ed (Steve Cochran) has designs. Ed ..read more »

79% from 1,576 member

A Song Is Born (1948)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman
Director: Howard Hawks
Certificate:
Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. Where better to hide than a musical research institute staffed entirely by lonely bachelors? She gets more than she bargained for when the head of the institute Professor Hobart Frisbee starts to ..read more »

65% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered mouse who spends his time imagining himself as a number of daredevil heroes - an RAF pilot, a seafaring swashbuckler, a riverboat gambler. But then Walter meets a ravishing blonde, who draws him into a real-life adventure involving a band of cut-throats and a cache of ..read more »

72% from 38 members
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The Best Years Of Our Lives on DVD (1946)
Starring: Virginia Mayo, Fredric March, Myrna Loy
Director: William Wyler
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Perhaps the most memorable film about the aftermath of World War II, it unfolds with the homecoming of three veterans to the same small town. The leads all touch emotional truths: Loy seems able to express longing, joy, fear and surprise - mostly with her back turned - in a particularly poignant ..read more »

70% from 2,354 members

Wonder Man (1945)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
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Danny Kaye plays a dual role in this comedy spotlighting his multitude of talents in singing, dancing and physical comedy. Just before he's about to testify against the mob, the fast-living nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew is slain. But Buzzy's ghost promptly proceeds to haunt his rather reserved,..read more »

70% from 11 members
Currently unavailable

James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... on DVD (1941)
Starring: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Jack Carson
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley
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Cagney plays charter pilot Steve Collins, a man in need of a fast buck in order to stop his plane being repossessed. His latest charter is heiress Joan Winfield (Bette Davis), who is eloping to Las Vegas with her boyfriend Allen Brice (Jack Carson). When Steve finds out that her millionaire dad is ..read more »

72% from 45 members

James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... on DVD (1940)
Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Pat O'Brien
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley
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A classic, propagandist war film set in the trenches of World War I following the famous 69th Irish regiment of Rainbow Division. James Cagney plays a brash new recruit whose rebelliousness causes tragedy. He discovers his patriotism after being given a second chance.

58% from 14 members

James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... on DVD (1940)
Starring: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Ann Sheridan
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley
Certificate:
Fruit company executive Steve Case (Pat O'Brien) is being harrassed by revolutionaries in the banana republic that hosts his plantation. He tries to convince his ex-colleague and old nemesis Nick Butler (Cagney) to come back to work to save his profits. Ann Sheridan provides the glamour and ..read more »

53% from 14 members

G Men (1935)
Starring: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley
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It's the early days of the F.B.I. - federal agents working for the Department of Justice. Though they've got limited powers - they don't carry weapons and have to get local police approval for arrests - that doesn't stop fresh Law School grad Eddie Buchanan from joining up, and he encourages his ..read more »

56% from 12 members
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James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.... (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: James Cagney
Director: Virginia Mayo, William Keighley, Roy del Ruth
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The Oscar winning screen icon, James Cagney, comes to life in this collection that includes four new-to-DVD films. Special features on each title in the Collection include the entertaining Warner Night at the Moviesshort subject galleries with vintage newsreels, vault treasures and classic cartoons...read more »

62% from 7 members

Paul Newman Collection Vol.2 - Silver Ch... (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli
Director: Martin Ritt, Victor Saville, Michael Curtiz
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The second collection of films featuring Hollywood icon Paul Newman. THE SILVER CHALICE sees Newman play a first century Greek sculptor who is sold into slavery by his wicked uncle. In THE HELEN MORGAN STORY, he plays the boorish boyfriend of famed torch singer Helen Morgan, whose career he helped ..read more »

57% from 59 members

Virginia Mayo facts

5 most recent films

The Man Next Door - 1.5 stars
Starlift - 0.5 stars
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. - 3.5 stars
James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.2 - The West Point Story - 3.0 stars
White Heat - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

White Heat - 4.0 stars
The Best Years Of Our Lives - 3.5 stars
Paul Newman Collection Vol.2 - Silver Chalice/The Helen Morgan Story/The Outrage/Rachel Rachel/When Time Ran Out - 3.0 stars
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. - 3.5 stars
Wonder Man - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Starlift - 0.5 stars
The Man Next Door - 1.5 stars
James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.2 - Torrid Zone - 2.5 stars
G Men - 3.0 stars
James Cagney - Signature Collection Vol.2 - The Fighting 69th - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Cagney - 8 times - show films
Richard Carlson - 6 times - show films
Paul Newman - 6 times - show films
Alan King - 6 times - show films
Pier Angeli - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Curtiz - 6 times - show films
Victor Saville - 6 times - show films
William Keighley - 5 times - show films
Martin Ritt - 3 times - show films
Roy del Ruth - 3 times - show films