Virginia Belmont

Virginia Belmont
Born (1921-09-20)September 20, 1921
New York City, United States
Died May 6, 2014(2014-05-06) (aged 92)
Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation Film actor

Virginia E. Belmont, also spelled Virginia Belmonte (September 20, 1921 May 6, 2014), was an American film actress.

Born Virginia E. Califano in New York City, she graduated from UCLA and then started working as a cigarette girl at Mocambo.[1] Belmont received her first acting role, uncredited, in the 1944 film Black Arrow.[1] Following a number of supporting roles for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and RKO films, she was put under contract with Monogram Pictures, starring in several B-movies as the heroine opposite William Boyd, Jimmy Wakely, and Johnny Mack Brown, among others.[1]

In 1941 Belmont married the native-born Italian restaurateur Albert Califano, and in the late 1940s they moved to Rome, where she continued her film career in the Italian industry, starring in a number of melodrama films, while Califano worked as a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.[1][2] In the late 1950s she retired from acting and moved back in the U.S., where she was employed by United Airlines as a sales rapresentative.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Harris M. Lentz III. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014. McFarland, 2015. ISBN 1476619611.
  2. Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.

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