- Was once termed "the most beautiful blonde in the world"; her beauty so impressed the Sultan of Morocco that he said seeing her was "tangible proof of the existence of God.".
- Was slightly cross-eyed and had to be carefully photographed.
- Early on, using her real name of Virginia Jones, she played a straight woman in vaudeville for four years to a performing horse act. The "horse" was comprised of two men known as the Mayo Brothers; hence her stage name.
- She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and White Heat (1949).
- Was Paul Newman's first on-screen leading lady, in the Biblical epic The Silver Chalice (1954).
- Auditioned for the part of "Lisa Douglas" in Green Acres (1965) but lost out to Eva Gabor.
- Her favorite of the movies she was in was She's Working Her Way Through College (1952). Although her vocals were always dubbed, she enjoyed doing musical pictures because she got to dance. A trained dancer since the age of three, she once danced with the St. Louis Opera when she was a teenager.
- In the 1950s she was the celebrity spokeswoman for Christmas Seals.
- One daughter with Michael O'Shea - Catherine Mary (b. 1953)
- Her vocals were always dubbed: by Louanne Hogan in The Princess and the Pirate (1944), by Betty Russell in The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), by Jeri Sullavan in A Song Is Born (1948) and by Bonnie Lou Williams in her six singing roles at WB from 1949-57.
- A lifelong staunch Republican, in 1963-64 she joined fellow actresses Joan Caulfield, Ruth Hussey, Yvonne De Carlo, Marie Windsor, Laraine Day, and Maidie Norman, in making appearances on behalf of US Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee for President in the campaign against US President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- On 8/25/18 she was honored with a day of her film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars.
- Buried at Valley Oaks Memorial Park, 5600 N. Lindero Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA.
- Stepmother of Edward and Barbara O'Shea.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 360-361. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
- In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Dhia Cristiani although at the beginning of her career Rosetta Calavetta, Lydia Simoneschi and Rina Morelli also occasionally lent their voice to her.
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