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Lina Romay Edit Profile

Actor singer jazz musician

Maria Elena "Lina" Romay was a Mexican-American actress and singer.

Background

She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Los Angeles She was the third wife of Jay Gould III (son of Jay Gould II), whom she married on 30 June, 1953.

Career

She appeared in both photoreal and live-action form in the Droopy cartoon "Senor Droopy" (1949). She performed for a time with Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She died, at age 91, on December 17, 2010, from natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California, United States.