Virginia Mayo papers
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
- 1930s-1976
Creator
- Mayo, Virginia, 1920-2005 (Person)
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.
- Actresses -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
- Awards
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Fan mail
- Film stills
- Letters
- Magazines (periodicals)
- Mayo, Virginia, 1920-2005 -- Archives
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Archival resources
- Motion pictures -- Archival resources
- Photographs
- Press kits
- Press releases
- Programs (documents)
- Radio scripts
- Scrapbooks
- Scripts
- Telegrams
- Television -- Archival resources
- Television actors and actresses -- Archival resources
- Television scripts
- Theater -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Theater programs
- 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
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0185 United States
ctlibarc@usc.edu