Virginia Mayo--Rare Joe Franklin TV Interview, 1977 

Marvelously poised and eloquent. It was pure joy to listen to Ms. Mayo recount her experiences making all these films. Thanks for posting!

Thank you for posting this. For a woman who was drop dead gorgeous and built like a goddess she is so refreshingly natural. Each time I watch The Best Years of Our Lives I enjoy her so much. She was sadly overlooked for an Oscar Nomination in this role as supporting actress.

There will never be another joe franklin! He was one of a kind and we were lucky to have him for so many wonderful years! Thank you, Joe! You’re gone but will never be forgotten!

Truly one of the most beautiful actresses ever,in Walter Mitty ,she was amazing, nowadays female stars can't touch her.

Virginia Mayo is absolutely talented and stunning. Even in her later years she still has that star quality and glamorous figure.

This lady was truly one of the most stunning ladies ever,I new knothing of this great lady till the 70s when my grandfather spoke of her as his favourite during war, then show Walter Mitty and was hooked on her beauty and talent.

she was such a talented actress!!! And she looks stunning in this interview

Joe Franklin was star struck and so very well informed, as can be appreciated here. Any show of his was extremely insightful.

Virginia Mayo was a real movie star with a capitol STAR.

Deserved the best supporting actress award for, Best Years of Our Lives.

Such modesty and a refreshingly normal personality...Joe Franklin gives her a great amount of 'deserved' praise during his very well handled interview...

Growing up Always had a mad crush on Virginia Mayo, Truly one of Hollywoods Beautiful Woman Here in 2019, Still enjoy watching her Movies, May she RIP , And is Sadly missed by all of her Fans Etc.

I first became aware of how fabulous she is in The Tall Stranger - a western with Joel McCrea. Now, I regard her as the best-ever - a true lady who oozes style & class. Enjoyed this interview very much. |Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the 1977 Virginia Mayo interview, a time when many of Hollywood's former stars were still around, even if they didn't get much attention except at fan shows. At least Turner Classic Movies started giving those stars' movies airtime starting in 1994, their old movies uncut and without commercials. By then, many of the Hollywood stars had passed on. But Joe Franklin got many of them on videotape before that happened and before WOR-TV went south.

she's so unappreciated, she's a sweet, talented lady!

One of the hottest film actresses ever!

I'm sad to say I've never heard of Joe's show, I guess I was still too young at the time, but obviously a great host judging by his phenomenal guests. I really enjoyed watching this one with Virginia Mayo. I think she "knocked it out of the park" with her appearance on what I think was the single greatest Hollywood film of all time, "The Best Years Of Our Lives," a part that she was truly fated to do. A perfect performance.

One of the most beautiful women ever to grace the earth.

She played such a witch in the film "Best years of our lives" that I have to keep reminding myself that she was an actress playing a role. Thank you Virginia

I had a crush on Virginia Mayo when I was a kid watching all those classic movies she appeared in. Don't hold the Mayo lol.

A very beautiful woman inside and out! She and Adele Jergens (another forgotten actress) look very much alike and Virginia was very talented and versatile! She could sing, act and was a very good dancer!

dream cast in Best Years with Teresa Wright and Frederic March - sobering movie - gripping experience

She was one hot looking 56 year old.

I've always been smitten by her. She just totally captivates me. What more can I say?

A naturally beautiful woman at 57 then. No plastic surgery. What you saw is what you got.

Virginia Mayo. One of the best. She was great in Best year of our lives!

Mr.Franklin was such a awesome interviewer. Virginia shares so much.

Joe brought the best in his guests.... excellent information brought out from Mayo 👍

Miss Mayo is so honest. it's refreshing.

Just gorgeous ; natural , sincere , generous with her comments about her colleagues. I miss talents like her in today's Hollywood. I am afraid those times are gone forever.

what a great interview, thankyou so much for posting

What a movie star! One of of the most beautiful women to ever walk this earth.stunning in her later years as well.

At the age of 10 years old I developed a crush watching Virginia Mayo in the movie, ‘The Flame and the Arrow.’

She would be 99 yrs old this year. My Mom LOVED her films!

At 57 she was just beautiful and so smart.forever in my heart ❤️

Miss the Joe Franklin TV Shows, Great Guests he had on every Week May he RIP and is missed Joe sadly passed away in 2015 at Age of 88 etc.

Joe Franklin was underrated as an interviewer. Columbia University graduate!!

I just met this great woman today Nov 30th on her 100th birthday on TCM. Of all my favorite Golden Girls from the 30's, 40's and 50's, nobody tops her in beauty!!!

One of my favorites, I loved her in the princess and the pirate with Bob Hope..

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. Virginia Mayo is my favorite actress of all time. Thanks.

Never heard of this interviewer. He was really good: respectful, prepared and listened well. Virginia Mayo was delightful.

Virginia Mayo had what was quite possibly the most beautiful overall figure of any woman ever to grace the face of this planet. No matter where you looked, there was simply nothing that needed fixing or changing in any possible way.

Loved watching Joe in the 70"s in NYC, Ch. 9

What a lovely lady Virginia was. Intelligent and soft spoken. No huge ego very modest and appealing. She stills looks good considering she was 56.

Joe Franklin: the show was live, but he was on tape. But seriously, Virginia was a great beauty and excellent actress.

Class act. Listen to her praise her co-stars and business associates. Joe Franklin does a great job by just letting her talk.

Beautiful, gracious lady. I had a crush on her as a boy loved the Danny Kaye, Bob Hope films on TV. Never understood why she never ranked with the so called greats.

l saw Virginia Mayo ,years ago in an excellent production of "No,No Nanette",with Gale Gordon and Kathleen Freeman! RIP,Virginia!

Saw her movies as a child, she was truly beautiful face and figure. The girl from Jones Beach with Ronald Reagan.

She was so gorgeous then and even now

A final word on Virginia Mayo. She was better at playing those "gangster moll" and nasty sexy parts than anyone else of her time. In fact, I would have loved to have seen what she would have done with Lana Turner's part in "The Postman Always Rings Twice". I think Mayo would have been better. Mayo was also good in light musicals. Ironically enough, Bette Davis herself said that Virginia Mayo would have been much better in than she in the film "Beyond the Forest". Davis could play a bitch, of course, but she certainly didn't have the smouldering sex appeal that Mayo had. Interesting that in her private life, Virginia Mayo lived a very conventional and scandal-free life. She was a lovely lady who happened to be best when she played a character who was up to no good.

Virginia Mayo was one of the best actors in Hollywood. I read in many places how directors who were known for making actors do scenes over and over, did not do that with Virginia Mayo because she always worked very hard on every scene and always knew her lines! Now for the part where I mention that she was also the most beautiful actress in old Hollywood! She simply was!

Virginia Mayo was very talented and beautiful. Perfect for James Cagney's love interest in "White Heat" and Dana Andrew's wife in "The Best Years of Our Lives."

i loved her in White Heat. Fantastic classy actress from the Golden era of Hollywood.

What a beautful woman and wonderful show, as well. I used to always stay up to watch Joe. I never realized how great an interviewer he was. I had his book on comedians. Somebody should've made that movie with White Heat starring Mayo in the Cagney part. That would've been great.

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a 72yo Aussie fan. What a gorgeous lady & star!!!!!!!

RIP MISS MAYO! GORGEOUS,TALENTED AND HUMBLE UNAPPRECIATED!

What a beauty. I miss Mr. Franklin.

Beautiful and talented actress.

She was lovely and still is

I agree with her. Instead of editing cutting parts out from old movies airing on TV just show the movie in parts each night or each week that movies air in a specific time slot on a network.

Virginia Mayo was a wonderful actress, she could play comedy, musicals, drama, good girl, bad girl, any role.

She;s still a Knockout at her Age God Love her etc.

She was one of the greatest unlike today actresses

She is so charming. 😍 And Joe Franklin is a fantastic interviewer! 🌹

What a lovely person.

I love Virginia Mayo and all the movies she was in

intelligent , Beautiful and classy. She was underrated in my opinion.

Gorgeous at 56.

Interesting interview- hearing all those movies she made and how she felt about them.

En mi recuerdo de adolescente,era una imagen natural , fantástica ,un sueño . Hollywood, USA, Gracias Virginia RIP.

In real life, she was a class act, the opposite of the sleazy dame roles she played on screen. One of the best quotes about her came from the Sultan of Morocco who declared her beauty to be "tangible proof of the existence of God"!

Any film Virginia was in was a winner. She sure was eye candy but, had marvelous acting skills.TBYOOL ranks right up there as one of the best films ever produced by Hollywood. Few films can equal it in any respects!! COLORADO with Joel McCray, WHITE HEAT with Cagney..oh, so many wonderful parts.

What a lovely woman.

Virginia Mayo was a VERY Beautiful Classy Woman, Indeed!!

She was so pretty

She was SO right about the horrible way movies were cut, interrupted, cropped, etc... on TV in those days. Just TERRIBLE quality and presentation. I think it put many people off of "old" movies until classic channels began to present them uninterrupted and in their proper ratio with sharp visuals.

Hey Joe Baby, love the nostalgia. No body could lay on the BS like Joe. When I caught his show on some cable channel he was interviewing people no one ever heard of, it was so sad.

She was beautiful

Still beautiful.

Did she and Gene Nelson do their own singing in that college film? I always loved her. My Mamma's name was Virginia.

Virginia wasbeautiful in74 stunning in her career im 67 now and have a perfect portrait tattoo on my back im sure as a ciassy lady she might not have approved buti was brought up on her films she will aiways be beautiful in my mind and heart. Thats a devoted white heat admirer❤❤❤❤

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She was Beautiful and a class act!

Divina, como siempre.

Still gorgeous !

Loved her great actress.

What a woman!

Joe Franklin knew his shit. He came prepared. Lol at Skip E. Lowe.

Bellisima Virginia!!!!🤩😘😍🥰

wow joe interveiwed them all

Two words: White Heat 🔥

Despite the passage of time - over 35 years - the lovely Virginia Mayo has not lost any of her charm as depicted in this video upload. While in real life she was a happily married woman, to the rest of the world she was the gorgeous movie star, who was a top versatile actress of her time in the 40's, 50's and even part of the 60's, possessing a range in acting that was aptly utilized in dramas, swashbucklers, adventure, westerns and even horror flicks. She played with all the leading men of the 40's and 50's. Virginia possessed never-ending legs that were used to advantage in musicals like : She's working her way through college and Painting the clouds with sunshine. During this time, she was known as "the song and dance girl". When the old studio system existed, actors/stars were expected to display their versatility and put their acting chops to good use by playing varied roles in every genre in the book. Virginia was one of these players and put her multi-dimensional talent to excellent use. I last saw Virginia in "Castle of evil" that starred her with Scott Brady, David Brian and Lisa Gaye.

Class act all the way!!! Now we are stuck with a bunch of talent-less, overpaid, non charismatic schmucks!!!

Obviously the format was quite different, but Joe was such a better interviewer than Larry King.

She was gorgeous when younger,but she was absolutely beguiling in her later years

What a treat for me this was . Seeing this now , I'm older than Virginia now than she was there And she's still a hottie to me But now I know what it was about her that stop me in my tracks . Pretty girls were a dime a in Hollywood but personality depth matched her beauty .if I could've only met one person , let it have been her .

Virginia mayo was smoking!!!!

Virginia Mayo was great at playing sluts, gangster's molls, unfaithful wives, etc. She was "hot", and she played a lot of "cheap and sleazy broads" to perfection. If anyone wants to know what she was about, they should see her in White Heat" opposite James Cagney. She was beautiful but evil and poisonous. I loved her.

“Joe, how do you know all this stuff?” Because he was a nut! But really, Joe was great. Nebishness rules!