Ames biography ramsay pdf

Ramsay Ames born Ramsay Phillips , [ 1 ] March 30, — March 30, was a leading s American B movie actress, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] model, dancer, [ 4 ] pin-up girl and television hostess. As a dancer, she was billed as Ramsay D'el Rico.

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She is also credited as Ramsey Ames. Ames became part of a dance team under the name Ramsay D'el Rico [ 1 ] and appeared as a model at the Eastman Kodak -sponsored fashion show at the New York World's Fair. An injury forced her to alter her dance career plans. She took up singing and became the vocalist with a top rhumba band. During a trip to California to visit her mother, Ramsay had a chance meeting at the airport with Columbia Pictures President Harry Cohn.

From there, she moved to Universal Pictures , [ 10 ] where she was featured in such films as Calling Dr. Death and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. After her career subsided in the s, Ames 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. According to director William Witney , some of Republic Pictures ' stuntmen suffered more injuries running on rooftops to get a better look at Ramsay Ames walking across the backlot than were hurt performing dangerous action sequences in the studio's westerns.

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