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Virginia Mayo papers

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Identifier: 2444

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Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

  • Creation: 1930s-1976

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Biographical / Historical

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."

Extent

16.833 Linear Feet (13 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Virginia Mayo, September 20, 1974.

Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed.

Title
Finding aid for the Virginia Mayo papers
Status
Unprocessed
Author
Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
Date
2022 February
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library Repository

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