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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Virginia Mayo papers
Creator:
Mayo, Virginia, 1920-2005
Identifier/Call Number: 2444
Physical Description:
16.833 Linear Feet
13 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1930s-1976
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of American actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005). Materials include personal and business
correspondence, telegrams, fan letters, theater and motion picture programs, scrapbooks, and clippings, stills, photographs,
fan magazines, publicity, pressbooks, and awards and trophies.
Language of Material:
English.
This collection contains the papers of American actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005). Materials include personal and business
correspondence, telegrams, fan letters, theater and motion picture programs, scrapbooks, and clippings, stills, photographs,
fan magazines, publicity, pressbooks, and awards and trophies. Included are television scripts for Burke's Law (1964) and
Night Gallery (1971); the screenplay for Young Fury (1965); and radio transcriptions of The Bob Hope Show (1946), The Screen
Guild Players, and The Chesterfield Players. There is also a scrapbook of letters from prominent political and motion picture
personalities including Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Samuel Goldwyn, and Adolph Zukor.
Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) was an American actress and dancer. Her film credits include "The Princess and the Pirate" (1944),
"Wonder Man" (1945), "The Kid from Brooklyn" (1946), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
(1947), "The Girl from Jones Beach" (1949), "White Heat" (1949), "Backfire" (1950), and "The Flame and the Arrow" (1950).
Mayo occasionally appeared on television in shows such as "Police Story," "Night Gallery," "The Love Boat," "Remington Steele,"
"Murder, She Wrote," and "Santa Barbara." She also appeared on the radio program "Lux Radio Theater."
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Virginia Mayo, September 20, 1974.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Virginia Mayo papers, Collection no. 2444, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Actresses -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Telegrams
Fan mail
Theater programs
Programs
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Scrapbooks
Film stills
Photographs
Magazines (periodicals)
Press kits
Press releases
Awards
Television scripts
Scripts
Radio scripts
Letters
Motion pictures -- Archival resources
Television -- Archival resources
Theater -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Archival resources
Television actors and actresses -- Archival resources
Mayo, Virginia, 1920-2005 -- Archives