Jo Morrow is an American film actress. Through a "Be a Star" contest she won a film contract with 20th Century-Fox (with Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...

 in Ten North Frederick

Ten North Frederick

Ten North Frederick is a 1955 novel by John O'Hara. It focuses on the life of an ambitious American named Joe Chapin, who desires to become President of the United States. The novel tells Chapin's story along with those of his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress. It won the 1956...

) in 1958.. After only one film with 20th Century-Fox she moved to Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

, allegedly because a producer at 20th Century Fox tried to make a pass at her.

At Columbia she made some ten films and a dozen TV series episodes between 1958 and 1963, the most notable being Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Our Man In Havana is a novel by British author Graham Greene, where he makes fun of intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants....

, in which she played Alec Guiness' daughter Milly.

In 1963 she married Jack Barnett, songwriter for Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced her to choose between movies and motherhood; she chose motherhood. She had a brief comeback in a few exploitation films and TV series episodes in the 1970s.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1958	Ten North Frederick Ten North Frederick Ten North Frederick is a 1955 novel by John O'Hara. It focuses on the life of an ambitious American named Joe Chapin, who desires to become President of the United States. The novel tells Chapin's story along with those of his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress. It won the 1956...	Waitress
1959	Juke Box Rhythm	Princess Ann
1959	Gidget Gidget Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach at Malibu. The name Gidget is a portmanteau of "girl and midget"...	Mary Lou
1959	The Legend of Tom Dooley The Legend of Tom Dooley The Legend of Tom Dooley is a 1959 western film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Landon and is based on the song Tom Dooley...	Laura Foster
1959	Our Man in Havana Our Man in Havana (film) Our Man in Havana is a 1959 film directed and produced by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Graham Greene...	Milly Wormold
1960	13 Ghosts 13 Ghosts 13 Ghosts is a 1960 horror film directed by William Castle and written by Robb White. To the dismay of some of the cast members, Castle gave top billing to 12-year-old Charles Herbert. It was remade in 2001 under the title of Thirteen Ghosts, directed by Steve Beck.-Plot:When occultist uncle Dr...	Medea Zorba
1960	The 3 Worlds of Gulliver	Gwendolyn
1962	Brushfire Brushfire Brushfire may refer to:* Brushfire Records, a record label* Brushfire , a fictional supervillain* Brushfire Fairytales, an album by Jack Johnson* Brushfire Inc., an advertising agency in Cedar Knolls, NJ* Brush fire, a wild fire...	Mary Carter
1963	Sunday in New York Sunday in New York Sunday in New York, filmed in Metrocolor, is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Peter Tewksbury and starring Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Rod Taylor. It was one of Fonda's earliest films, and she was called "the loveliest and most gifted of all our new young actresses" by Newsday...	Mona Harris
1964	He Rides Tall	Kate McCloud
1973	Blume in Love Blume in Love Blume in Love is a 1973 film written and directed by Paul Mazursky. It starred George Segal and Susan Anspach. Also in the cast were Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason and Shelley Winters.-Plot:...	Bar Hostess
1973	Terminal Island Terminal Island Terminal Island is an island located in Los Angeles County, California between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor. Originally a mudflat known to the Spanish as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, and later called Rattlesnake Island, it has officially been Terminal Island since 1918...	Newswoman
1973	Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls	Laura Sanders

External links

• Glamour Girls of the silver screen: Jo Morrow biography Retrieved 2011-09-22