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Lina Romay, Singer and Actress, Dies at 91
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 27, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Lina Romay, who sang with the Xavier Cugat orchestra in the early 1940s before beginning a 15-year career as a film and television actress, died here on Dec. 17. She was 91.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Jay Gould.
The daughter of a Mexican diplomat, Ms. Romay was born in Brooklyn in 1919 and began her entertainment career by touring as the Cugat orchestra’s lead singer.
A performance with the orchestra in the 1942 film “You Were Never Lovelier,” starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, led to roles in about a dozen other films, including “Week-End at the Waldorf” in 1945 and “Love Laughs at Andy Hardy” in 1946. She also appeared on “The Milton Berle Show,” “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet,” ”The Red Skelton Show” and other TV programs.
She also appeared on Broadway as part of the revue “Michael Todd’s Peep Show,” which opened in 1950 and ran for eight months.
Her movie career ended in 1953, and after a few television appearances she abandoned show business entirely in 1957. From the late 1970s into the 1980s, she worked as a Spanish-language radio announcer for horse races at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Information on survivors was not immediately available.
Long after Ms. Romay’s film career ended, a Spanish movie actress, some 35 years her junior, took Lina Romay as her stage name.
Lina Romay, Singer and Actress, Dies at 91
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 27, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Lina Romay, who sang with the Xavier Cugat orchestra in the early 1940s before beginning a 15-year career as a film and television actress, died here on Dec. 17. She was 91.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Jay Gould.
The daughter of a Mexican diplomat, Ms. Romay was born in Brooklyn in 1919 and began her entertainment career by touring as the Cugat orchestra’s lead singer.
A performance with the orchestra in the 1942 film “You Were Never Lovelier,” starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, led to roles in about a dozen other films, including “Week-End at the Waldorf” in 1945 and “Love Laughs at Andy Hardy” in 1946. She also appeared on “The Milton Berle Show,” “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet,” ”The Red Skelton Show” and other TV programs.
She also appeared on Broadway as part of the revue “Michael Todd’s Peep Show,” which opened in 1950 and ran for eight months.
Her movie career ended in 1953, and after a few television appearances she abandoned show business entirely in 1957. From the late 1970s into the 1980s, she worked as a Spanish-language radio announcer for horse races at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Information on survivors was not immediately available.
Long after Ms. Romay’s film career ended, a Spanish movie actress, some 35 years her junior, took Lina Romay as her stage name.