Lina Romay
Actor
Biography
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.
(Wikipedia)
Filmography
Señor Droopy
as Herself 1949
Bathing Beauty
as Lina Romay 1944
Stage Door Canteen
as Xavier Cugat Orchestra Singer (uncredited) 1943
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
as Isobel Gonzales 1946
Adventure
as Maria 1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
as Juanita 1945
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Lina Romay 1944
The Man Behind The Gun
as Chona Degnon 1953
The Big Wheel
as Dolores Raymond 1949
The Lady Takes a Sailor
as Racquel Riviera 1949
Honeymoon
as Raquel Mendoza 1947
This Time for Keeps
1947
Embraceable You
as Libby Dennis 1948
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
1943
Joe Palooka in the Big Fight
as Maxine 1949