"[4] That exit occurred when blood poisoning in one of her feet required grafting lamb's skin over the top of the foot.

That introduction to Carroll helped Dale and her sister, Frances, who danced as a team, to perform in New York City.

[5] While they were in New York City, Dale was discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a contract with 20th Century Fox.

[1] She appeared in a number of movies in the late 1930s and 1940s, including Holiday Inn (1942), in which she dances and sings with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby,[6] and she 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).