Gale Robbins was a Forties singer and actress who grew to become a preferred pin-up lady
She was born Betty Gale Fields on Might 7, 1921 in Mitchell, Indiana. Gale was the youngest of 5 youngsters. When she was younger her household moved to Chicago, Illinois and her mother and father divorced. On the age of seventeen she gained the Miss Chicago Magnificence Contest. Then she enrolled on the Vera Jones modeling college. She shortly grew to become a profitable mannequin and appeared on a number of journal covers. In 1940 she began singing with Phil Levant’s band. Gale additionally sang with Jan Garber’s band and appeared on Ben Bernie’s radio present. On November 8, 1943 she married her childhood sweetheart Robert Olson. She was signed by twentieth Century Fox and made her movie debut within the 1944 drama In The Meantime Darling. The gorgeous blonde posed for Yank journal and have become one a preferred World Warfare 2 pin-up lady.
Gale had small elements within the movies My Expensive Secretary, The Windjammer, and Race Avenue. She obtained the possibility to sing a number of songs within the 1949 musical The Barkley Of Broadway. Sadly she by no means obtained any main film roles. Gale and her husband had two daughters – Victoria and Cynthia. Through the Nineteen Fifties she appeared on quite a few tv exhibits together with Mister Ed, 77 Sundown Strip, and Perry Mason. She additionally recorded an album known as I am A Dreamer. Gale stopped appearing within the early Nineteen Sixties so she may deal with her household. Tragically in 1967 her husband Robert was killed in a building accident. She started working as an inside designer and infrequently sang in nightclubs. In 1975 she appeared on stage in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Firm. Sadly on February 12, 1980 she died from lung most cancers. Gale was solely fifty-eight years outdated. She was buried at Forest Garden Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.
