She was born in 1919 in
Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the
Mexican Consulate in
Los Angeles. Romay performed for a time with
Xavier Cugat before eventually retiring. She was featured on
Cugat Rumba Revue on
NBC radio in the early 1940s. In her films, Romay often appeared with Cugat and his orchestra. Prior to singing with Cugat, she had sung with
Horace Heidt's orchestra, billed as Josette, a Frenchwoman. She was married to John Lawrence Adams, and later was the third wife of Jay Gould III, whom she married on 30 June 1953. Romay died at age 91 on December 17, 2010, of natural causes at a hospital in
Pasadena, California. ==Filmography==