Jody McCrea
According to his official website, Jody McCrea, the actor-son of Frances Dee and Joel McCrea, died in in Roswell, New Mexico, of cardiac arrest on April 4. He was 74.
Born on Sept. 6, 1934, in Los Angeles, Jody McCrea was the oldest of McCrea and Dee’s three sons. Frances Dee was best known for playing sweet young things in the 1930s, e.g., Little Women and The Gay Deception (though her most remarkable performance at that time was the nymphomaniac in Blood Money), and for the atmospheric I Walked with a Zombie in 1943. Joel McCrea starred in dozens of dramas and comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including the classics The Palm Beach Story (1942) [...]
by Andre Soares | April 7, 2009
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Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo, the star of several Technicolor productions of the 1940s and 1950s, died today at a nursing home in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. Mayo, who was 84, had been in poor health since contracting pneumonia a year ago.
Beginning her career as a chorus girl, the honey-blonde Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones on Nov. 30, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri) soon became one of the leading exponents of Technicolored female beauty during the post-World War II era. Never a great actress, she was always interesting to look at. And if her performances lacked warmth, Mayo exuded more than enough sultriness to compensate for that deficiency.
Initially a Samuel Goldwyn contract player, Mayo went from bit parts [...]
