Virginia Belmont

Virginia E. Belmont, also spelled Virginia Belmonte (September 20, 1921 – May 6, 2014), was an American 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 and graduated from UCLA where she studied Italian and then started working as a cigarette girl at Mocambo. Belmont received her first acting role, uncredited, in the 1944 film Black Arrow. 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.

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. 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.

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)