Gale Robbins

Here is a famous standard by the lovely Gale Robbins.
Little known singer/actress Gale Robbins was a knockout-looking blue-eyed redhead who made a slight dent in post-war Hollywood. Born in Mitchell, Indiana (some say Chicago, Illinois) in 1921 (some say 1924), Gale had a natural flair for music and appeared in glee clubs and church choirs in the early days. She started out in entertainment as a model, but her singing talents soon took over. Signed by a talent agency, she teamed with some male singers for a swing band and called themselves The Duchess and Her Dukes. She went on to work with some of the top radio and live big bands of that era. 20th Century-Fox caught sight of this looker and quickly signed her up, her first film being the pleasant time-filler In the meantime, darling (1944). A popular cheesecake pin-up, Gale appeared on the cover of Yank, The Army Weekly in 1944 and toured with Bob Hope in Europe the next year. Gale's better known film work includes Race street (1948), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), Three little words (1950), The Fuller brush girl (1950) and Calamity Jane (1953). She hosted the Hollywood House TV program in 1949 and appeared on The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1951. In the late 1950s the gal with the smooth and sexy vocal style put out an easy-listening album (I'm a dreamer) for the Vik Label. After her last film Quantrill's raiders (1958) and some additional TV parts, Gale decided to phase her career out to focus full-time on raising her family. When her husband was tragically killed in a building accident, Gale decided to make a comeback of sorts. Besides appearing in nightclubs, she was glimpsed in the film Stand up and be counted (1972) and appeared on stage in Stephen Sondheim's musical Company in 1975. She died of lung cancer in 1980.
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