Dale Austen
Toronto Daily Star, November 21 1927
Dale Austen (1910-??) won her beauty pageant crown at the age of 17. Her prize for becoming Miss New Zealand was a trip to Hollywood and an opportunity to star in movies there.
Unfortunately, she did not manage to become a star. She did appear in some movies in the late 1920s, but her Internet Movie Database entry only lists three roles for her. In 1933, she moved to Australia and married another New Zealand expatriate, a man named Robert Ivan Nicholson. After that, she appears to have disappeared from the public eye. Her date of death is not known.
Created October 6, 2025.