Virginia Lee jazzes up D.O.A.

In the classic 1950 Film Noir D.O.A. gorgeous blonde actress VIRGINIA LEE has a small but very important role, playing a jazz-club-regular-debutante named Jeanie, taking star Edmond O’Brien’s attention off the bar: where an enigmatic villain spikes his drink with deadly poison, that he spends the rest of the movie drying from while trying to find out who it was, which is a shame since he’d gotten Jeane’s number to hang around longer that evening: talk about the one that got away.

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