Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe;[citation needed] May 20, 1920 – September 14, 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.

[2] (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.

After the promotional hoopla died down, RKO had no vehicles for Vale: although her alto speaking voice and mature demeanor belied her age (19 years old), she was too young to play conventional ingenues.

PRC, the smallest of the Hollywood studios, couldn't afford star names and relied on familiar featured players.

"[8] Virginia Vale's final association with PRC was performing live at the studio for an American Legion function on September 29, 1945.