Virginia Dale

This article is about the actress named Virginia Dale. For the small town in Colorado, see Virginia Dale, Colorado.

Virginia Dale
File:Virginia Dale Argentinean Magazine AD.jpg Virginia Dale, c. 1939
Born	Virginia Paxton (1917-07-01)July 1, 1917 Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Died	Burbank, California, USA
Other names	Phyllis Randall
Occupation	Actress, dancer
Years active	1938–1958, 1982–1987

Virginia Dale (July 1, 1917 – October 3, 1994) was an American actress and dancer.

She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. While working as one of the dancing Paxton Sisters in New York City, she was discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a contract with 20th Century Fox. She appeared in a number of movies in the late 1930s and 1940s, including Holiday Inn (1942), and became particularly associated with musicals. In the 1950s, she worked mainly in television series such as The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1952), Highway Patrol (1957), and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957–1958). She left the movie business in 1958, but returned to acting for a few films in the 1980s. She died in Burbank, California.

Selected filmography

• Death of a Champion (1939)
• Idiot's Delight (1939)
• Parole Fixer (1940)
• Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
• The Quarterback (1940)
• The Singing Hill (1941)
• Holiday Inn (1942)
• The Hucksters (1947)
• Dragnet (1947)
• Fall Guy (1947)
• Docks of New Orleans (1948)
• That's Entertainment! (1974)

External links

• Virginia Dale at the Internet Movie Database
• Virginia Dale at the Internet Broadway Database
• Virginia Dale at Find a Grave

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Phyllis Dobson	Miss California 1937	Succeeded by Claire James