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Virginia Vale
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Virginia Vale
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-05-20,Dallas, Texas, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Career Several of Vale's early films were made using her birth name. The name Virginia Vale had been chosen in advance for the female winner of the 1939 Gateway to Hollywood contest, a nationwide talent search sponsored by producer Jesse Lasky -- as noted (somewhat indignantly) then by another Virginia Vale a syndicated columnist covering the film industry. Vale edged out Rhonda Fleming in the 1939 contest. After her film career, she became an executive secretary at Lockheed and also a competition judge for the US Figure Skating Association. She was eventually honored by the USFSA for 50 years of service in that role. Before becoming a judge, she'd also briefly been a competition skater. Her life in film and skating was featured at the 2002 U.S. figure skating championships and a memorial trophy for "most outstanding performance" was given in her name at the 2007 California Championships.

Filmography

True Confession

5.8

True Confession
1937-12-24

4.2

Crime, Inc.
1945-04-15

5.6

Bullet Code
1940-04-12

Broadway Big Shot

0

Broadway Big Shot
1942-02-06

5.2

Blonde Comet
1941-12-26

You Can't Fool Your Wife

4.5

You Can't Fool Your Wife
1940-05-21

Her Jungle Love

6.2

Her Jungle Love
1938-04-15

0

Cocoanut Grove
1938-05-20

6

Disbarred
1939-01-06

The Big Broadcast of 1938

5.9

The Big Broadcast of 1938
1938-02-11

Millionaires in Prison

6

Millionaires in Prison
1940-07-12

Red Skins and Red Heads

0

Red Skins and Red Heads
1941-04-15

6

Triple Justice
1940-09-22

The Marshal Of Mesa City

8

The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939-11-03

Robbers of the Range

7

Robbers of the Range
1941-04-17

Night Club Scandal

4

Night Club Scandal
1937-11-11

3

Unmarried
1939-05-20

Legion of the Lawless

5.2

Legion of the Lawless
1940-01-05

South of Panama

6

South of Panama
1941-05-02

3.2

Three Sons
1939-10-13

A Panic in the Parlor

0

A Panic in the Parlor
1941-06-27

Persons in Hiding

3.5

Persons in Hiding
1939-02-10

Repent at Leisure

5.7

Repent at Leisure
1941-04-04

4.8

Stage to Chino
1940-07-26

King of Alcatraz

5.7

King of Alcatraz
1938-09-30

5.5

Prairie Law
1940-06-14

6.2

The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24

8.4

New Amsterdam
2018-09-25