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Looking for reviews of Lina Romay movies? Cinafilm has a total of 51 reviews across 10 movies.
Movies starring Lina Romay have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
Flamingo Road - released in 1949 - is Lina Romay's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 11 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Lina Romay is The Big Wheel - released in 1949 - with a score of 42% based on 5 reviews.
Maria Elena "Lina" Romay (January 16, 1919 - December 17, 2010) was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. She appeared in both photoreal and live-action form in the Droopy cartoon "Senor Droopy" (1949).
Romay performed for a time with Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She was featured on Cugat Rumba Revue on NBC radio in the early 1940s. Along with Cugat and his orchestra, she appeared in the films You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and Bathing Beauty (1944).
Prior to singing with Cugat, she had sung with Horace Heidt's orchestra, when she was billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman.
She was married to John Lawrence Adams and later was the third wife of Jay Gould III (son of Jay Gould II), whom she married on 30 June 1953.
Doña Romay died, at age 91, on December 17, 2010, from natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California, U.S.
Lina Romay has acted in films with Xavier Cugat, Thomas Mitchell, Ray Teal and Morris Ankrum.
Lina Romay has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Richard Thorpe, Victor Fleming and George Sidney.
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