Nina Vale

Anne Bradshaw Hunter (August 12, 1918 – January 30, 1964), billed alternately as Anne Hunter, Ann Hunter, or Nina Vale was an American actress and dancer, who had three leading roles in films of the 1940s, most notably in the 1945 noir, Cornered, opposite erstwhile crooner turned private eye/tough guy Dick Powell.

Early years Born Anne Bradshaw Hunter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Arlington, Vail was one of four daghters born to Nova Scotia natives Bertha Jean (née Bradshaw) and Clarence David Hunter.

Stage Vale was a dramatics student of Benno Schneider in New York. Her work on stage there included acting in The Women. Later, she played a Russian sniper in a road-show production of Doughgirls. In 1949, she co-starred in a production of the comedy Reunion in Vienna.

In 1959, she was billed as Anne Hunter in a performance of Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction.

Film Vale's first film was The Gay Falcon for RKO Pictures.