Born in Cuero, Texas, Jo Morrow was still a baby when her parents took her to San Diego, where her father worked in aircraft manufacture and her mother encouraged Jo's acting aspirations. Entering a "Be A Star" contest which Morrow feels started out as a sham, she actually won a 20th Century-Fox contract (film- debut ing in Gary Cooper 's Ten North Frederick (1958)), and from there moved to Columbia. The 1964 birth of a deaf daughter forced Morrow to choose between movies and motherhood; the latter won out, although she made a comeback of sorts in 1970s exploitation fare like Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (1973) and Terminal Island (1973).
The birth of a deaf daughter forced her semi-retirement (1964)Was signed by 20th Century-Fox after winning a talent contest. (1958)Met Fidel Castro while making Our Man in Havana (1959) in Cuba. She told The Daily Mirror (London, UK) that Castro wanted to know the number of her hotel room so he could send flowers, but she never got them. (1959)In July 2005, she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Ty Hardin , Donna Douglas , Ed Nelson , Richard Anderson , Elena Verdugo , Henry Darrow and Lorna Gray .Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks" (McFarland & Co., 1998).
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Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.