Virginia Hunter

Virginia Hunter, an American model and actress, spent most of her career in 1940s films. She was born in Springfield and spent her childhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, relocating with her family to Los Angeles in 1940. She signed with Columbia Pictures, where she danced in the Jack Cole Dance group before turning to acting, and she appeared in more than 20 films over the decade. Matinee crowds of the era knew her from four pictures in the Durango Kid series, and she played a supporting part in The Mating of Millie (1948) opposite Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes. She was the Muse Clio in Down to Earth (1947), with Rita Hayworth. Modern viewers know her for Shemp Howard era Three Stooges shorts such as Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947), I'm a Monkey's Uncle and Fiddlers Three, along with their remakes. After leaving Columbia she also did modeling work and managed a store.