Ramsay Ames

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American actress (1919–1998)

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::summary American actress (1919–1998) ::

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nameRamsay Ames
imageRamsay Ames AAFPOABrief.jpg
altPin-up photo of Ramsay Ames for the April 10, 1945 issue of Brief, a United States Army Air Forces Pacific Oceans Areas (AAFPOA) magazine fully staffed by military personnel.
captionAmes in 1945
birth_nameRamsay Phillips
birth_date
birth_placeLong Island, U.S.
death_date
death_placeSanta Monica, California, U.S.
occupationActress, model
years_active1943–1963
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| name = Ramsay Ames | image = Ramsay Ames AAFPOABrief.jpg | alt = Pin-up photo of Ramsay Ames for the April 10, 1945 issue of Brief, a United States Army Air Forces Pacific Oceans Areas (AAFPOA) magazine fully staffed by military personnel. | caption = Ames in 1945 | birth_name = Ramsay Phillips | birth_date = | birth_place = Long Island, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | occupation = Actress, model | years_active = 1943–1963 | spouse =

Ramsay Ames (born Ramsay Phillips, March 30, 1919 – March 30, 1998) was a leading 1940s American B movie actress, model, dancer, pin-up girl and television hostess. As a dancer, she was billed as Ramsay D'el Rico.

She is also credited as Ramsey Ames.

Career

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Of Spanish/English descent, Ames was born on Long Island. Athletic in high school, she excelled as a swimmer. Ames first was recognized as a dancer/singer before moving into sultry-eyed 1940s film roles.

Ames became part of a dance team under the name Ramsay D'el 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. 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. The meeting resulted in a screen test and then her movie debut in Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943).

From there, she moved to Universal Pictures, where she was featured in such films as Calling Dr. Death and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. In 1944, she appeared in the film The Mummy's Ghost, where she played a young woman possessed by the soul of an Egyptian princess. She later appeared in a Monogram Pictures drama, Below the Deadline (1946), and in Republic serials including The Black Widow (1947) and G-Men Never Forget (1948).

After her career subsided in the 1940s, 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.

Personal life

Ames was wed to Man of La Mancha playwright Dale Wasserman, a Tony Award-winning musical writer., and the couple later lived in a villa called "La Mancha" on the Costa del Sol. She later divorced him.

Selected filmography

**Soundtrack (5 credits) **

**Archive footage (5 credits) **

Pictorials

  • Yank (USA) 24 December 1943
  • Yank (USA) 20 April 1945
  • Yank (USA) 4 May 1945

References

References

  1. (December 10, 1943). "Hollywood: Pin-Up Queen's Portrait". The Ithaca Journal.
  2. (1944-01-17). "Ramsay Ames Heads Bond Sllers Here". Eugene Register-Guard.
  3. (1944-06-12). "Inside Perelman". Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
  4. (1943-06-26). "Hollywood Sights and Sounds". Prescott Evening Courier.
  5. "AFI{{!}}Catalog".
  6. (February 24, 1956). "Actress Ramsay Ames Finds Her Shangri-La in Spain". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  7. Rainey, Buck. (2005). "Serial Film Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1912-1956". McFarland.
  8. Reeder, Thomas. (October 6, 2019). "Stop Yellin' - Ben Pivar and the Horror, Mystery, and Action-Adventure Films of His Universal B Unit". BearManor Media.
  9. "Ramsay Ames | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos".
  10. (December 29, 1943). "This Is the Story of Ramsay Ames -- Who's No Gentleman". The Des Moines Register.
  11. "Ramsay Ames".
  12. Kiser, Brett. (October 2, 2013). "The Pin-Up Girls of World War II". BearManor Media.
  13. filesofjerryblake. (2013-11-16). "The Vigilante".
  14. (January 7, 2009). "Dale Wasserman: Playwright who adapted 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's".
  15. (2009-01-07). "Dale Wasserman: Playwright who adapted 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's".

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