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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1915-01-11 (110 years old)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Veda Ann Borg

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.

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Known For

Acting

1992

John Wayne's 'The Alamo' as Blind Nell Robertson

1961

1960

The Alamo as Blind Nell Robertson

1959

Thunder in the Sun as Marie (uncredited)
Bonanza as Beulah

1958

The Fearmakers as Vivian Loder

1957

Sugarfoot as Flo McGuire

1956

Naked Gun as Susan Stark
Frontier Gambler as Francie

1955

1954

Bitter Creek as Whitey

1953

1952

1951

1950

The Kangaroo Kid as Stella Grey
Rider from Tucson as Gypsy Avery

1949

Chicken Every Sunday as Rita Kirby
One Last Fling as Gaye Lardner
Mississippi Rhythm as Jeanette
Forgotten Women as Clair Dunning

1948

1947

Mother Wore Tights as Rosemary Olcott
Blonde Savage as Connie Harper
The Pilgrim Lady as Eve Standish

1946

Big Town as Vivian LeRoy
Accomplice as Joyce Kimball Bonniwell
Wife Wanted as Nola Reed
Avalanche as Claire Jeremy

1945

Mildred Pierce as Miriam Ellis
Fog Island as Sylvia Jordan
Scared Stiff as Flo Rosson
Jungle Raiders as Cora Bell
What a Blonde as Pat Campbell
Rough, Tough and Ready as Lorine Gray
Don Juan Quilligan as Beattle LaRue

1944

The Falcon in Hollywood as Billie Atkins
The Big Noise as Mayme Charlton
Detective Kitty O'Day as Georgia Wentworth
The Girl Who Dared as Cynthia Harrison / Sylvia Scott
Marked Trails as Blanche / Mary Conway / Susanna
Irish Eyes Are Smiling as Belle La Tour
Standing Room Only as Peggy Fuller

1943

Murder in Times Square as Fiona Maclair
The Unknown Guest as Helen Walker
The Girl from Monterrey as Flossie Rankin
Revenge of the Zombies as Lila Warrington von Aldermann
Smart Guy as Lee
False Faces as Joyce Ford

1942

About Face as Daisy, Blonde Hustler
Lady in a Jam as Dr. Enright’s Patient (uncredited)
She's in the Army as Diane Jordan
Duke of the Navy as Maureen

1941

Honky Tonk as Pearl
I'll Wait for You as Manicurist (uncredited)
Arkansas Judge as Hetty Huston
The Penalty as Julie Jackson
The Penalty as Julie
The Pittsburgh Kid as Barbara Ellison
Down in San Diego as Cashier (uncredited)

1940

The Shadow as Margo Lane
Bitter Sweet as Manon
Behind the News as Newspaper Receptionist
Melody Ranch as Receptionist
Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess
Glamour for Sale as Lucille

1939

1938

Over the Wall as Maxine

1937

Kid Galahad as The Red Head
Confession as Xenia
Men in Exile as Rita Crane
Marry the Girl as Nurse with cartoon on uniform
She Loved a Fireman as Betty Williams
Public Wedding as Bernice
Varsity Show as Passerby
San Quentin as Helen
Missing Witnesses as Miss Friday (uncredited)
Submarine D-1 as Dolly
Alcatraz Island as The Red Head