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Virginia Carroll

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2 दिसंबर 1913 · लॉस एंजेल्स, कैलिफोर्निया, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका
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23 जुलाई 2009 · सैंटा बारबरा, कैलिफोर्निया, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका (प्राकृतिक कारणों)
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Virginia Evangeline Carroll
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5′ 5″ (1.65 मी)

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Sister of L.A. newscaster Frank Carroll.
"B" leading lady in westerns and bit player in others during the late 1930s and 1940s. She was a Los Angeles department store model before landing in films as a fashion model in Roberta (1935).
Has a daughter Carroll Byrd Evangeline.
Her first western co-star role was in the Jack La Rue film A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936), which also featured first husband Ralph Byrd.
As of July 2009, she was retired, living in Santa Barbara, CA (per issue #57, Summer 2009 of "Films of the Golden Age").

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[on how she broke into the film industry] A man came into I. Magnin's [a department store section of Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel], where I was working as a model, and asked if I'd be interested in being in the movies--that I should go to RKO tomorrow. I asked him, "How much would it pay?". When he said, "About $75 a week", I immediately said, "I'll be there!".
[on Don 'Red' Barry] Don Barry was very difficult. A little man; a short man, with a very big disposition! He used to stand on a box when we did our scenes together! One day he didn't have the box and I asked, '"Where's your box?" Now I didn't mean anything by it; I just wondered where it was, so we could shoot the scene. Don stormed to the main office, up to [Herbert J. Yates]' office, the head of Republic [and said], "That Miss Carroll doesn't take her work very seriously", to which Yates replied, "Don't ever worry about Virginia Carroll". I was married to Ralph Byrd, a big star for Republic at the time! . . . It struck me so funny. I didn't get mad about it! But that was Don Barry!
[on Johnny Mack Brown] Johnny Mack was a wonderful guy; there was no trouble; he was extremely nice; very easy to work with!
[on Milburn Stone] Milburn was one of the funniest men you'd ever know. This was before he became famous on Gunsmoke (1955). He'd wait until I would get ready for my closeup. Then he'd make faces; cross his eyes and roll his eyes, making them go around and around like Harry Ritz! He'd break me up! And I was supposed to be crying or doing something serious! Years later, I saw Milburn at a party and he was still doing those things!