Veda Ann Borg
Veda Ann Borg (January 11, 1915 – August 16, 1973) was an American film actress.Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Gottfried Borg, a Swedish immigrant and Minna Noble, Veda Ann Borg became a model in 1936 before winning a contract at Paramount Pictures. A car crash in 1939 required drastic reconstruction of her face by plastic surgery. She appeared in more than one hundred films, including Mildred Pierce, Chicken Every Sunday, Love Me or Leave Me, Guys and Dolls, Thunder in the Sun, and The Alamo (1960) in which she was excellent playing the blind Nell Robertson.Borg began accepting parts in television when the new medium opened up. From 1952 through 1961, she appeared on shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, General Electric Theater, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, The Abbott and Costello Show, The Restless Gun, Bonanza, The Red Skelton Show, Adventures of Superman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Mr. & Mrs. North, among many others. In 1953-54, she substituted for Gloria Blondell as "Honeybee Gillis" in The Life of Riley TV series.
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Birth date | January 11, 1915 |
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Date of death | August 16, 1973 |
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