74 years ago:
Colorado Territory (US)
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
1949-06-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28484
#ColoradoTerritory #RaoulWalsh #JoelMcCrea #VirginiaMayo #DorothyMalone #Western #Movies

#SantaBarbara 013 (1984) - 9/10
#VirginiaMayo joins the show here, as Peaches.

1️⃣ One reason I love this show is that it's enormous fun to watch. Performers like #LouiseSorel and #LaneDavies are a big part of that fun. At one point here, Davies walks into a scene and totally changes the whole dynamic. You can't take your eyes off him. That's real star power.

64 years ago:
Westbound (US)
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
1959-04-25
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/110139
#Westbound #RandolphScott #VirginiaMayo #KarenSteele #Western #Film

76 years ago:
Out of the Blue (US)
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously ine...
1947-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/329827
#OutoftheBlue #VirginiaMayo #CaroleLandis #PaulHarvey #Film

65 years ago:
Fort Dobbs (US)
An escaped prisoner helps a mother and her son flee marauding Indians. Director Gordon Douglas' 1958 western stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo, Richard Eyer, Brian Keith, Michael Dante and Russ Conway.
1958-04-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/126766
#FortDobbs #ClintWalker #VirginiaMayo #BrianKeith #Western #ClassicFilm

💖 Virginia Mayo (1920 – 2005) American actress and dancer 💃
#VirginiaMayo #oldhollywood

72 years ago:
Captain Horatio Hornblower (UK)
Original title: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
1951-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23928
#CaptainHoratioHornblower #RaoulWalsh #GregoryPeck #VirginiaMayo #RobertBeatty #Movies

77 years ago:
The Kid from Brooklyn (US)
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. ...
1946-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/109235
#TheKidfromBrooklyn #NormanZMcLeod #DannyKaye #VirginiaMayo #EveArden #ClassicFilm

73 years ago:
Backfire (US)
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
1950-01-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32929
#Backfire #VirginiaMayo #VivecaLindfors #EdBegley #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Remembering #VirginiaMayo 💃
#BOTD

Virginia Mayo & James Cagney - "Les Cadets de West Point" (The West Point Story / Roy Del Ruth / 1950)