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Ramsay Ames in Below the Deadline (1946)

Biography

Ramsay Ames

Overview

  • Born
    March 30, 1919 · New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    March 30, 1998 · Santa Monica, California, USA (lung cancer)
  • Birth name
    Ramsay Phillips

Mini bio

  • Ramsay Ames was born on March 30, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West (1947), Beauty and the Bandit (1946) and Philo Vance Returns (1947). She was married to Dale Wasserman. She died on March 30, 1998 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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  • Spouse
      Dale Wasserman(? - 1980) (divorced)

Trivia

  • After her career subsided in the 1940s, she and her husband lived in Spain, where she had her own television interview show and occasionally took on support roles in films produced in Europe.
  • During a trip to California to visit her mother, Ramsay had a chance meeting at the airport with Columbia President Harry Cohn. The meeting resulted in a screen test and then her 1943 movie debut Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943). From there she moved to Universal.
  • Took up singing and became the vocalist with a top rhumba band.
  • Attended the Walter Hillhouse School of Dance, specializing in Latin-style dance. She later became part of a dance team under the name "Ramsay Del Rico", and appeared as a model at the Eastman Kodak-sponsored fashion show at the 1939 New York World's Fair. An injury forced her to alter her dance career plans.
  • Of Spanish/English descent, she first was recognized as a dancer/singer before moving into sultry-eyed 40s film roles.

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