Virginia Vale
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 20, 1920, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Died
- September 14, 2006
- Movies
- 27
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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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1945 | Crime, Inc. | Trixie Waters |
| 1942 | Broadway Big Shot | Betty Collins |
| 1941 | Blonde Comet | Beverly Blake |
| 1941 | The Gay Falcon | Hysterical Woman (uncredited) |
| 1941 | A Panic in the Parlor | Mrs. Vivian Errol |
| 1941 | South of Panama | Janice 'Jan' Martin, aka Dolores Esteban |
| 1941 | Robbers of the Range | Alice Tremaine |
| 1941 | Red Skins and Red Heads | Virginia (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Repent at Leisure | Elevator Girl |
| 1940 | Triple Justice | Lorna Payson |
| 1940 | Stage to Chino | Caroline McKay |
| 1940 | Millionaires in Prison | May Thomas |
| 1940 | Prairie Law | Priscilla Brambull |
| 1940 | You Can't Fool Your Wife | Sally |
| 1940 | Bullet Code | Molly Matthews |
| 1940 | Legion of the Lawless | Ellen Ives |
| 1939 | The Marshal Of Mesa City | Virginia King |
| 1939 | Three Sons | Phoebe Pardway |
| 1939 | Unmarried | Betty (as Dorothy Howe) |
| 1939 | Persons in Hiding | Flo |
| 1939 | Disbarred | Airline Stewardess |
| 1938 | King of Alcatraz | Dixie (as Dorothy Howe) |
| 1938 | Cocoanut Grove | Hazel De Vore |
| 1938 | Her Jungle Love | Eleanor Martin |
| 1938 | The Big Broadcast of 1938 | Joan Fielding |
| 1937 | True Confession | Brunette Girl (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Night Club Scandal | Marsh's Maid |
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