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Date of Birth

30 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA

Date of Death

30 March 1998, Santa Monica, California, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name

Ramsay Phillips

Mini Biography

Leading lady in 40's "B" films.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs

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.

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.

Took up singing and became a the vocalist with a top rhumba band.

Athletic in high school, she excelled as a swimmer.

Of Spanish/English descent, she first was recognized as a dancer/singer before moving into sultry-eyed 40s film roles.

Wed to "Man of La Mancha" playwright Dale Wasserman, the couple later lived in a villa called "La Mancha" on the Costa del Sol.

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