Mayo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine.
She has also starred in Cactus Flower, How the Other Half Loves, and the musical comedy, Good News. Virginia and her husband, actor Michael O'Shea (of Jack London film fame) co-starred in such hits as Tunnel of Love, Fiorello, and George Washington Slept Here. While she also appeared in musicals, Mayo's singing voice was always dubbed. Her film career continued through the 1950s and 1960s, frequently in B-movie westerns and adventure films. She was also cast against type as a shallow golddigger in The Best Years of Our Lives. In 1949's White Heat she took on the unsympathetic role of the cold and treacherous "Verna Jarrett," opposite James Cagney. According to widely published reports from the late 1940s, the Sultan of Morocco declared her beauty to be proof of the existence of God. It was said that she "looked like a pinup painting come to life," and she played just such a role in the 1949 film comedy, The Girl from Jones Beach. In her Hollywood heyday, Mayo was known as the quintessential voluptuous beauty. With Danny Kaye she played the dream-girl heroine in comedies including Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). Virginia Mayo in Hoboken and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.Mayo continued her career as a dancer, then signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in several of Goldwyn's movies. Depending on just the good will of people won't get you there,” said bio-engineer Clarysse. “They cannot just say that everyone should just do a little bit of the work. conferences and is feted by world leaders like European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen - even if they stop well short of following much of her advice.Īctivists warn, though, that politicians should not shrug off responsibility on the individual. Now, she addresses political and business leaders at U.N. Greta Thunberg at first was a lonely teenager with her solo protests outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm. Underscoring his view, a report this year by the EU's statistical agency showed that people taking some personal action to combat climate change, whether on food or transport, has reached its highest level since 2011. “I often get the question: What I do, is that not a tiny drop on a boiling plate? Well we have 17 million drops and if each does 10 sustainable things, you have 170 million drops on a hot plate. He insisted small actions, if taken by enough people, could grow well beyond expectations, taking the population of the Netherlands as a cue. “Yet the longer we wait, the bigger and more expensive the challenge will become.” “I can imagine there was a sense of hopelessness among people,” said Pim Nusselder of the Dutch Milieu Centraal, a group promoting sustainable choices on anything from energy to waste and shopping.
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