Virginia Belmont

{{Short description|American actress (1921–2014)}}

{{Infobox person

| image = VirginiaBelmont.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|9|20|mf=y}}

| birth_place = New York City, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|5|6|1921|9|20}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, US

| other names = Virginia E. Califano

| occupation = Film actress

}}

Virginia E. Belmont, also spelled Virginia Belmonte (September 20, 1921 – May 6, 2014), was an American film actress.

Born in New York City, she moved to California as a child. She attended San Diego High School and San Diego State College{{cite news |title=Virginia Belmont: She's Doing What She's Always Done, But the Pay Is Better |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37018100/virginia_belmont/ |access-date=October 11, 2019 |work=The Des Moines Register |date=February 18, 1945 |location=Iowa, Des Moines |page=37|via = Newspapers.com}} and graduated from UCLA and then started working as a cigarette girl at Mocambo.{{cite book|last1=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|publisher=McFarland, 2015|isbn=1476619611}} Belmont received her first acting role, uncredited, in the 1944 film Black Arrow.{{cite book|last1=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|publisher=McFarland, 2015|isbn=1476619611}} Following a number of supporting roles for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and RKO films, she was put under contract with Monogram Pictures, starring in several B-movies as the heroine opposite William Boyd, Jimmy Wakely, and Johnny Mack Brown, among others.{{cite book|last1=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|publisher=McFarland, 2015|isbn=1476619611}}

In 1941 Belmont married the native-born Italian restaurateur Albert Califano, and in the late 1940s they moved to Rome, where she continued her film career in the Italian industry, starring in a number of melodrama films, while Califano worked as a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.{{cite book|last1=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|publisher=McFarland, 2015|isbn=1476619611}}{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}} In the late 1950s she retired from acting and moved back in the U.S., where she was employed by United Airlines as a sales representative.{{cite book|last1=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2014|publisher=McFarland, 2015|isbn=1476619611}}