Ramsay Ames
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Pin-up photo of Ramsay Ames for the May 4, 1945 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly
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| Born |
Phillips Ames March 30, 1919 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 30, 1998 (aged 79) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1943-1963 |
| Spouse(s) | Dale Wasserman (?-1980) (divorced) |
Ramsay Ames (born Phillips Ames, March 30, 1919 – March 30, 1998) was a leading 1940s American B movie actress, model, dancer,pin-up girl and television host. She appeared in the film The Mummy's Ghost (1944), where she played the Princess Ananka.
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.
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. She later appeared in a Monogram Pictures drama, Below the Deadline (1946), and in Republic serials including G-Men Never Forget (1948).
Ames had attended the Walter Hillhouse School of Dance, specializing in Latin-style dance. She later became part of a dance team under the name "Ramsay Del 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.
Athletic in high school, she excelled as a swimmer. Of Spanish/English descent, Ames first was recognized as a dancer/singer before moving into sultry-eyed 40s film roles.
She was wed to "Man of La Mancha" playwright Dale Wasserman, and the couple later lived in a villa called "La Mancha" on the Costa del Sol.
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