Veda Ann Borg
Born January 11, 1915 (Age: 111)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Veda Ann Borg (January 11, 1915 – August 16, 1973) was an American film actress. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Borg was the daughter of Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble. She became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 necessitated drastic reconstruction of her face by plastic surgery. She appeared in more than one hundred films, including Mildred Pierce, Chicken Every Sunday, Love Me or Leave Me, Guys and Dolls, Thunder in the Sun, and The Alamo (1960). Borg began accepting parts in television when the new medium opened up. From 1952 through 1961, she appeared on shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, The Abbott and Costello Show, The Restless Gun, Bonanza, The Red Skelton Show, Adventures of Superman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Mr. & Mrs. North, among many others. In 1953-54, she substituted for Joan Blondell as "Honeybee Gillis" in The Life of Riley TV series.[1] Borg was married to Paul Herrick (1942) and to director Andrew McLaglen (1946–1958) and had three children, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, and Andrew Victor McLaglen II. She died of cancer in Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veda Ann Borg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Veda Ann Borg (January 11, 1915 – August 16, 1973) was an American film actress.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Borg was the daughter of Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble. She became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 necessitated drastic reconstruction of her face by plastic surgery. She appeared in more than one hundred films, including Mildred Pierce, Chicken Every Sunday, Love Me or Leave Me, Guys and Dolls, Thunder in the Sun, and The Alamo (1960).
Borg began accepting parts in television when the new medium opened up. From 1952 through 1961, she appeared on shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, The Abbott and Costello Show, The Restless Gun, Bonanza, The Red Skelton Show, Adventures of Superman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Mr. & Mrs. North, among many others. In 1953-54, she substituted for Joan Blondell as "Honeybee Gillis" in The Life of Riley TV series.[1]
Borg was married to Paul Herrick (1942) and to director Andrew McLaglen (1946–1958) and had three children, Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, and Andrew Victor McLaglen II.
She died of cancer in Hollywood.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Veda Ann Borg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
The Alamo
1960
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as Blind Nell Robertson
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Age: 45
Thunder in the Sun
1959
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as Marie (uncredited)
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Age: 44
Guys and Dolls
1955
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as Laverne
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Age: 40
Mildred Pierce
1945
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as Miriam Ellis
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Age: 30
Lady in a Jam
1942
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as Dr. Enright’s Patient (uncredited)
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Age: 27
She's in the Army
1942
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as Diane Jordan
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Age: 27
About Face
1942
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as Daisy, Blonde Hustler
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Age: 27
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
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as Bubbles
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Age: 27
Duke of the Navy
1942
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as Maureen
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Age: 27
The Corsican Brothers
1941
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as Maria
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Age: 26
Honky Tonk
1941
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as Pearl
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Age: 26
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
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as Barbara Ellison
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Age: 26
Down in San Diego
1941
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as Cashier (uncredited)
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Age: 26
I'll Wait for You
1941
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as Manicurist (uncredited)
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Age: 26
Arkansas Judge
1941
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as Hetty Huston
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Age: 26