Actor
Virginia Vale
May 20, 1920 · Dallas, Texas, USA
Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, 20 May 1920 – 14 Sep 2006) was an American film actress. She starred in a number of B-movie Westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver.
Vale was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Howe. Before becoming a professional actor, she was a switchboard operator in Dallas, Texas, and honed her acting skills in productions at a little theater in Dallas. After a representative of Paramount Pictures saw her in a leading role, he invited her to make a screen test, which led to a contract. (Another source says that Howe was working at the switchboard in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Dallas office, where a talent scout for Paramount found her and signed her to a contract.
Notable work
Often works with
Lynne Overman
5 titles together
The Big Broadcast of 1938, True Confession, Night Club Scandal
George O'Brien
4 titles together
Bullet Code, Legion of the Lawless, Stage to Chino
J. Carrol Naish
4 titles together
Night Club Scandal, Persons in Hiding, King of Alcatraz
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Phil Warren
4 titles together
Unmarried, Persons in Hiding, King of Alcatraz
Richard Cramer
3 titles together
Millionaires in Prison, Legion of the Lawless, Night Club Scandal
Slim Whitaker
3 titles together
Bullet Code, Legion of the Lawless, Prairie Law
Full filmography · 28
Crime, Inc.
as Trixie Waters
1945
Broadway Big Shot
as Betty Collins
1942
Blonde Comet
as Beverly Blake
1941
The Gay Falcon
as Hysterical Woman (uncredited)
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A Panic in the Parlor
as Mrs. Vivian Errol
1941South of Panama
as Janice 'Jan' Martin, aka Dolores Esteban
1941
Robbers of the Range
as Alice Tremaine
1941Red Skins and Red Heads
as Virginia (uncredited)
1941
Repent at Leisure
as Elevator Girl
1941
Triple Justice
as Lorna Payson
1940
Stage to Chino
as Caroline McKay
1940
Millionaires in Prison
as May Thomas
1940