Lina Romay (singer)

Red-haired Lina Romay was an American actress, model, and musician whose career spanned several decades. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began singing with Horace Heidt's orchestra, billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman. Later, she performed with Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, appearing with them on the Cugat Rumba Revue on NBC radio in the early 1940s.

Romay's film credits include You Were Never Lovelier (1942), Bathing Beauty (1944), and The Big Wheel (1949), all with Cugat and his orchestra. She was also a pin-up girl for Yank, the Army Weekly. Romay married John Lawrence Adams, and later became the third wife of Jay Gould III, marrying him on June 30, 1953. She died of natural causes at a hospital in Pasadena, California, on December 17, 2010, at age 91.