Virginia Belmont

Virginia E. Belmont, also spelled Virginia Belmonte (September 20, 1921 – May 6, 2014), was an American film actress.

Virginia Belmont
Born	(1921-09-20)September 20, 1921 New York City, US
Died	May 6, 2014(2014-05-06) (aged 92) Hollywood, California, US
Other names	Virginia E. Califano
Occupation	Film actress

Born in New York City, she moved to California as a child. She attended San Diego High School and San Diego State College^[1] and graduated from UCLA and then started working as a cigarette girl at Mocambo.^[2] Belmont received her first acting role, uncredited, in the 1944 film Black Arrow.^[2] Following a number of supporting roles for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and RKO films, she was put under contract with Monogram Pictures, starring in several B-movies as the heroine opposite William Boyd, Jimmy Wakely, and Johnny Mack Brown, among others.^[2]

In 1941 Belmont married the native-born Italian restaurateur Albert Califano, and in the late 1940s they moved to Rome, where she continued her film career in the Italian industry, starring in a number of melodrama films, while Califano worked as a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.^[2][3] In the late 1950s she retired from acting and moved back in the U.S., where she was employed by United Airlines as a sales representative.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Night Taxi (1950)
• The Mysteries of Venice (1951)
• Beauties on Motor Scooters (1952)
• Silent Conflict (1948)
• Oklahoma Blues (1948)
• The Rangers Ride (1948)
• Courtin' Trouble (1948)
• Prairie Express (1947)