Billie Seward Real name: Rita Ann Seward 1912 or 1914 - 1982 Billie Seward's career lasted less than ten years, from the mid 1930s through the early 1940s. As a contract player at Columbia, she was featured with Tim McCoy in five westerns and one non-western. She also was the lead in one of the Kermit Maynard 'mountie' films, TRAILS OF THE WILD (Ambassador-Conn, 1935).  Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Billie Seward: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0786538/ |  (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above, Billie Seward and Tim McCoy in LAW BEYOND THE RANGE (Columbia, 1935). |
 (Courtesy of Minard Coons) Joyce Compton 1907 - 1997 In the photo above are pretty blonde Joyce Compton and Tim McCoy in FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE (Columbia, 1932). Compton had a smooth and sweet Southern drawl and wound up specializing in playing ditzy blondes and second female leads. One of my favorite Compton films is CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (Warners, 1945), which starred Barbara Stanwyck, with Joyce playing the lovesick nurse to Dennis Morgan. A 1926 WAMPAS Baby Star, her career began at Fox in the mid 1920s, and she was still doing films in the late 1950s. Matt Hinrichs' Joyce Compton Shrine website has a variety of photos of Joyce: http://www.scrubbles.net/jc/gallery.html Jim Tipton's Find A Grave website has photo of the grave marker for Joyce Compton at Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20029 Classic Images has an article about Joyce Compton at: http://www.classicimages.com/1998/january98/compton.html Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Joyce Compton: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0174049/ |
Virginia Vale Real name: Dorothy Howe 1920 - 2006 Virginia Vale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1920. Vale's career spanned from the mid 1930s through WW2, and she was the main heroine to George O'Brien in his westerns for RKO as well as the western musical shorts starring Ray Whitley. After retiring from the screen, Vale worked 30+ years for Lockheed and was also an ice skating judge. Dale Crawford and Jim Sorensen e-mailed with additional info on Virginia. She passed away on September 14, 2006 in Burbank, California at Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center from congestive heart failure. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California. Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Virginia Vale: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0883922/ |  |  |
 (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above from L-to-R are O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Charles 'Slim' Whitaker and Howard Hickman during the gunfight in BULLET CODE (RKO, 1940). |