Lina Romay
Actor
- Born
- January 16, 1919 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- December 17, 2010 (age 91)
Maria Elena "Lina" Romay (January 16, 1919 - December 17, 2010) was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. She appeared in both photoreal and live-action form in the Droopy cartoon "Senor Droopy" (1949).
Romay performed for a time with Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She was featured on Cugat Rumba Revue on NBC radio in the early 1940s. Along with Cugat and his orchestra, she appeared in the films You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and Bathing Beauty (1944).
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Prior to singing with Cugat, she had sung with Horace Heidt's orchestra, when she was billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman.
She was married to John Lawrence Adams and later was the third wife of Jay Gould III (son of Jay Gould II), whom she married on 30 June 1953.
Doña Romay died, at age 91, on December 17, 2010, from natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California, U.S.
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Known for
Flamingo Road
April 30, 1949
Señor Droopy
April 9, 1949
Bathing Beauty
June 27, 1944
Stage Door Canteen
June 24, 1943
Adventure
December 28, 1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
October 4, 1945
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
December 25, 1946
The Man Behind The Gun
January 31, 1953
The Big Wheel
November 4, 1949
Two Girls and a Sailor
June 14, 1944
The Lady Takes a Sailor
December 16, 1949
Honeymoon
May 17, 1947
Acting19
- 1975Demoniac
- 1953The Man Behind The Gun as Chona Degnon
- 1949The Lady Takes a Sailor as Racquel Riviera
- 1949The Big Wheel as Dolores Raymond
- 1949Flamingo Road
- 1949Señor Droopy as Herself
- 1949Joe Palooka in the Big Fight as Maxine
- 1949Cheyenne Cowboy as Kate Harmon
- 1948Embraceable You as Libby Dennis
- 1947This Time for Keeps as (uncredited)