Maria Elena "Lina" Romay (January 16, 1919 - December 17, 2010) was a Mexican-American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. She appeared in both photoreal and live-action form in the Droopy cartoon "Senor Droopy" (1949). Romay performed for a time with Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She was featured on Cugat Rumba Revue on NBC radio in the early 1940s. Along with Cugat and his orchestra, she appeared in the films You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and Bathing Beauty (1944). Prior to singing with Cugat, she had sung with Horace Heidt's orchestra, when she was billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman. She was married to John Lawrence Adams and later was the third wife of Jay Gould III (son of Jay Gould II), whom she married on 30 June 1953. Doña Romay died, at age 91, on December 17, 2010, from natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California, U.S. (Wikipedia)

Filmography

• 1953The Man Behind The Gun — Chona Degnon
• 1949Cheyenne Cowboy — Kate Harmon
• 1949Flamingo Road
• 1949Joe Palooka in the Big Fight — Maxine
• 1949The Big Wheel — Dolores Raymond
• 1949The Lady Takes a Sailor — Racquel Riviera
• 1948Embraceable You — Libby Dennis
• 1947Honeymoon — Raquel Mendoza
• 1947This Time for Keeps — (uncredited)
• 1946Love Laughs at Andy Hardy — Isobel Gonzales
• 1945Adventure — Maria
• 1945Week-End at the Waldorf — Juanita
• 1944Bathing Beauty — Lina Romay
• 1944Two Girls and a Sailor — Lina Romay
• 1943Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• 1943Stage Door Canteen — Xavier Cugat Orchestra Singer (uncredited)
• Shining Sex — Cynthia

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1949Señor Droopy — Herself