Jo Morrow

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-debuting in Gary Cooper's Ten North Frederick (1958)), and from there moved to Columbia.

Met Fidel Castro in 1959 while making Our Man in Havana (1959) in Cuba. She told The Daily Mirror (London, UK) that he wanted to know the number of her hotel room so he could send flowers, but she never got them.

Did not make herself too popular on the set of The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) when she allegedly remarked that Alec Guinness and Noël Coward had recently co-starred with her in Our Man in Havana (1959). Peter Bull, who had a supporting part in the "Gulliver" film, attributed this remark (in his autobiographical book, "I Say - Look Here!") to an actress he referred to as "Marj Smith", but it was made pretty clear that he meant Morrow--there is no "Marj Smith" in the cast list of either film, and Morrow was the only American actress in both.

The birth of a deaf daughter in 1964 forced her into semi-retirement.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks" (McFarland & Co., 1998).

In July 2005 she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, NC, along with Ty Hardin, Donna Douglas, Ed Nelson, Richard Anderson, Elena Verdugo, Henry Darrow and Lorna Gray.