Goodbye, Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo is mostly why I love Danny Kaye movies. She's always the cheerful, beautiful blonde to his zany, red-headed antics (see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty). She appeared in many of Goldwyn's sillier movies, but also was able to show her stuff in The Best Years of Our Lives as a wife who can't get used to her husband being out of uniform (or the fact that he wants her to stay at home and not pick up men at nightclubs). It is disappointing that she wasn't given too many chances to show her chops, but I know we all appreciate her just the same. I think Virginia Mayo and Myrna Loy are more deserving of awards (neither received any acting Oscar noms in their lifetime) than some of the actresses we have around currently. Perhaps I'm a little biased.

1940s Film Star Virginia Mayo Dies at 84
Virginia Mayo on IMDB