Catherine Virginia Verrill (November 20, 1916 – January 18, 1999) was a singer in the era of old-time radio and big bands.
[3] Verrill's family was friends with orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, who had Virginia sing on his bandstand when she was 3 years old.
[6] In June 1935, she was singing on the Socony Sketchbook with Johnny Green's orchestra[7] and had "a starring contract" on another show that was planned.
[8] That program debuted July 2, 1935, with Verrill as star and Mark Warnow conducting the accompanying orchestra.
"[2] When she was 13,[16] Verrill won an audition over 300 others to sing the title song in Barbara Stanwyck's Ten Cents a Dance," (1931).
[1] The two had wed on June 17, 1961, in Crystal Lake, Illinois; he was a dentist then living in nearby Woodstock who had previously taught at Northwestern University.