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- Birth nameBeverly Jo Morrow
- Born in Cuero, Texas, Jo Morrow was still a baby when her parents took her to San Diego, where her father worked in aircraft manufacture and her mother encouraged Jo's acting aspirations. Entering a "Be a Star" contest which Morrow feels started out as a sham, she actually won a 20th Century-Fox contract (film-debuting in Gary Cooper's Ten North Frederick (1958)), and from there moved to Columbia. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced Morrow to choose between movies and motherhood; the latter won out, although she made a comeback of sorts in 1970s exploitation fare like Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973) and Terminal Island (1973).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpouseJackie Barnett(June 29, 1963 - April 13, 1984) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenDawn Allyn Eden BarnettJames Burton Barnett
- ParentsLawrence Garnett MorrowRuby Anne Powell
- RelativesGarnett Delwin Morrow(Sibling)
- Met Fidel Castro in 1959 while making Our Man in Havana (1959) in Cuba. She told The Daily Mirror (London, UK) that he wanted to know the number of her hotel room so he could send flowers, but she never got them.
- The birth of a deaf daughter in 1964 forced her into semi-retirement.
- Converted to Judaism to marry Jackie Barnett.
- Was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1958 after winning a talent contest.
- In July 2005 she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, NC, along with Ty Hardin, Donna Douglas, Ed Nelson, Richard Anderson, Elena Verdugo, Henry Darrow and Lorna Gray.
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