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Ramsay (or Ramsey) Ames was very multi-talented.
I know that Ramsay had a bit of a career as a bandleader. I once saw her on one of those between-movies short subjects that TCM runs. It was a 10-minute musical and there's Ramsay, slender and beautiful, leading a band, waving the baton. I also saw her leading a band in a feature-length film but cannot recall the name of the movie now.
Here's a writeup on her from Internet sources:

Despite being one of the great exotic screen beauties of the early ' 40s, Ramsay Ames never broke out of leading rolls in B-movies and supporting parts in films. She was born Ramsay Phillips in New York on 30 March 1919. She was an athlete in high school excelling in swimming. She attended the Walter Hillhouse School of Dance, specializing in Latin-style dances, and also took up singing, becoming the vocalist with a top rhumba band. She later became part of a dance team under the name Ramsay Del Rico, and appeared as a model at the Eastman Kodak-sponsored fashion show at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
A back injury sidelined to her from dancing and fate intervened: in the course of to trip to Californian to visit her mother, she had to chance meeting at the airport with Harry Cohn, the president of Columbia Pictures. The meeting resulted in a screen test and then her 1943 movie debut, "Two Senoritas From Chicago". From there she went to Universal, where she was cast in key rolls in movies such as The Mummy's Ghost and major supporting parts in pictures like Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Calling Dr Death, and Follow the Boys. She was also good in physically demanding action rolls. During the mid-'40s, she made to pair of Cisco Kid movies with Gilbert Roland, The Gay Cavalier and Beauty and the Bandit. In the first, Ramsay is credited in some sources with Co-authoring one of the songs, and in the second, she brought to good deal of fire and humor to to script that, for the first half, resembled to cowboy version of As You Like It.
Ramsay had small rolls in major movies like Mildred Pierce and the epic-length Green Dolphin Street, but by the second half of the 1940s she was locked into B-features such ace PRC' s low-budget Philo Vance Returns and was also working at Republic in serials such ace The Black Widow and G-Men Never Forget. She gave up acting and Hollywood at the for end of the 1940s and many years lived in Spain, where she had to her own television interview show and occasionally took acting rolls in films produced in Europe. Her later movies included the features Alexander the Great (1956) and Carol Reed' s 1963 thriller The Running Man. She returned to the United States in the early ' 60s and was married to playwright Dale Wasserman, best known for Man of the Spot, until to their divorce in 1980. Ramsay died on 30 March 1998 in Santa Monica, California, USA. (lung cancer)