Babe Name: Jo Morrow Profession: Actress Feature Dancer: No Ethnicity: Caucasian Country of Origin: United States Province / State: TX - Texas Place of Birth: Cuero Date of Birth: November 1, 1939 Astrological Sign: Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Brown Height: 170 cm - 5 feet and 7 inches Weight: 55 kg - 121 lbs Measurements: 34-24-36 Fake boobs: No Career Status: Unknown Career Start And End 1958 - 1976 (18 Years In The Business)
Jo Morrow, is an American film actress. Through a "Be a Star" contest she won a film contract with 20th Century Fox in 1958. After only one film with 20th Century-Fox she moved to Columbia Pictures, 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, in which she played Alec Guinness' daughter Milly. In 1963 she married Jack Barnett, songwriter for Jimmy Durante. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced her to give up movies for motherhood. She had a brief comeback in a few exploitation films and TV series episodes in the 1970s
Born in Cuero, Texas, Jo Morrow was still a baby when her parents took her to San Diego, where her father worked in aircraft manufacture and her mother encouraged Jo's acting aspirations. Entering a "Be A Star" contest which Morrow feels started out as a sham, she actually won a 20th Century-Fox contract (film-debuting in Gary Cooper'sTen North Frederick (1958), and from there moved to Columbia. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced Morrow to choose between movies and motherhood; the latter won out, although she made a comeback of sorts in 1970s exploitation fare like Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973) and Terminal Island (1973). The birth of a deaf daughter forced her semi-retirement (1964) Was signed by 20th Century-Fox after winning a talent contest. (1958) Met Fidel Castro while making Our Man in Havana (1959) in Cuba. She told The Daily Mirror (London, UK) that Castro wanted to know the number of her hotel room so he could send flowers, but she never got them. (1959) In July 2005, she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Ty Hardin, Donna Douglas, Ed Nelson, Richard Anderson, Elena Verdugo, Henry Darrow and Lorna Gray. Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks" (McFarland & Co., 1998). Lives in Medford, Oregon. Converted to Judaism to marry Jack Barnett. She did not make herself too popular on the set of "The Three Worlds Of Gulliver" when she allegedly remarked that Alec Guinness and Noel Coward had recently co-starred with her in "Our Man In Havana". Peter Bull, who had a supporting part in the Gulliver film, attributed this remark (in his autobiographical book, "I Say - Look Here!") to an actress he referred to as "Marj Smith", but it was made pretty clear that he meant Morrow. (There is no "Marj Smith" in the cast-list of either film, and Morrow was the only American actress in both).
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