Biography for
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Date of Birth

1 November 1939, Cuero, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Beverly Jo Morrow

Mini Biography

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's Ten 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).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>

Spouse

Jackie Barnett

(29 June 1963 - 13 April 1984) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

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).

Where Are They Now

(2003) Lives in Medford, Oregon.