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Gale Robbins is a Actor American born on 7 may 1921 at Chicago (USA)
Gale Robbins (born Betty Gale Robbins, May 7, 1921 - February 18, 1980) was an American actress and singer.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robbins graduated from high school in June 1939 and began her career with the Phil Levant band in 1940. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Olson, in November 1944 when he was in the Air Force.
Starting as a model and nightclub singer she made her film debut in In the Meantime, Darling in 1944. She appeared in several films, such as Calamity Jane and My Dear Secretary, and briefly sang parts of two songs in The Barkleys of Broadway, playing Shirlene May, the potential understudy to Ginger Rogers' character. Robbins sang another song, "All Alone Monday," in another Fred Astaire vehicle, 1950's Three Little Words.
Robbins entertained at many military bases with a troupe led by Bob Hope. She later focused on TV, hosting Hollywood House from 1949 to 1950. She released the album I'm a Dreamer, backed by Eddie Cano and his orchestra, in 1958. She made three guest appearances on The Bob Cummings Show between 1955-1958. Gale appeared on The Untouchables, in the episode "The Antidote." She also had roles in such popular series as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip and Mister Ed.
Robbins died of lung cancer at the age of 58.
Outre un ultime film sorti en 1972, elle apparaît à la télévision entre 1955 et 1966, dans vingt-cinq séries américaines, dont Les Incorruptibles (un épisode, 1960), Perry Mason (un épisode, 1965) et Gunsmoke (un épisode, 1966).
Gale Robbins meurt prématurément à 58 ans, en 1980, d'un cancer du poumon.
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Birth name Betty Gale Robbins
Nationality USA
Birth 7 may 1921 at Chicago (USA)
Death 12 february 1980 (at 58 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 7 may 1921 at Chicago (USA)
Death 12 february 1980 (at 58 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Robbins graduated from high school in June 1939 and began her career with the Phil Levant band in 1940. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Olson, in November 1944 when he was in the Air Force.
Starting as a model and nightclub singer she made her film debut in In the Meantime, Darling in 1944. She appeared in several films, such as Calamity Jane and My Dear Secretary, and briefly sang parts of two songs in The Barkleys of Broadway, playing Shirlene May, the potential understudy to Ginger Rogers' character. Robbins sang another song, "All Alone Monday," in another Fred Astaire vehicle, 1950's Three Little Words.
Robbins entertained at many military bases with a troupe led by Bob Hope. She later focused on TV, hosting Hollywood House from 1949 to 1950. She released the album I'm a Dreamer, backed by Eddie Cano and his orchestra, in 1958. She made three guest appearances on The Bob Cummings Show between 1955-1958. Gale appeared on The Untouchables, in the episode "The Antidote." She also had roles in such popular series as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip and Mister Ed.
Robbins died of lung cancer at the age of 58.
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Au cinéma, Gale Robbins débute dans In the Meantime, Darling d'Otto Preminger (avec Jeanne Crain et Frank Latimore), sorti en 1944. Suivent dix-huit autres films américains jusqu'en 1958, dont les comédies musicales Entrons dans la danse de Charles Walters (1949 avec Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers) et Trois petits mots de Richard Thorpe (1950, avec Fred Astaire et Vera-Ellen), ainsi que le western musical La Blonde du Far-West de David Butler (1953, avec Doris Day et Howard Keel).Outre un ultime film sorti en 1972, elle apparaît à la télévision entre 1955 et 1966, dans vingt-cinq séries américaines, dont Les Incorruptibles (un épisode, 1960), Perry Mason (un épisode, 1965) et Gunsmoke (un épisode, 1966).
Gale Robbins meurt prématurément à 58 ans, en 1980, d'un cancer du poumon.
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Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Jackie Cooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jacqueline Bisset, Stella Stevens, Gary Lockwood, Lee Purcell, Loretta Swit, Héctor Elizondo
Roles uncredited
Rating45%
, 1h49Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Glenda Farrell, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Roles Gwen Arden
Rating63%
The film relates the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit. Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film.
Double Jeopardy (1955)
, 1h10Directed by R. G. Springsteen
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Rod Cameron, Gale Robbins, Allison Hayes, Jack Kelly, John Litel, Robert Armstrong
Roles Marge Baggott
Rating62%
Calamity Jane (1953)
, 1h41Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Dick Wesson
Roles Adelaid Adams
Rating71%
Calamity Jane (Doris Day) rides into Deadwood, South Dakota as shotgun messenger on the stagecoach. The local saloon bar, the Golden Garter, sends for beautiful women to appear on the stage and entertain the residents of a town with few females. Unfortunately, the men are anything but pleased when the latest "woman" turns out to be a man named Francis Fryer (Dick Wesson), who does a stage act in drag (reluctantly) and goes under the name Frances Fryer. The saloon owner was misled by the girlish-sounding name when reading an advertisement in the newspaper. The men begin to storm out. Calamity, thinking quick in all the panic, vows to get them the one woman they are all drooling over: singer Adelaid Adams (Gale Robbins), who is in Chicago. Francis Fryer points out that Adams wouldn't be seen dead in that town but Calamity is still determined to bring her. Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) laughs at the idea and tells Calamity that the night Adams steps on the stage, he will come to the opening dressed as a Sioux squaw lugging a papoose.
The Belle of New York (1952)
, 1h21Directed by Charles Walters, Robert Alton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice Pearce, Christian Rub
Roles Dixie 'Deadshot' McCoy
Rating60%
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, wealthy playboy Charles Hill (Fred Astaire) is causing difficulties for his guardian, Aunt Lettie (Marjorie Main) and lawyer, Max (Keenan Wynn). Prone to fall in love then ditching his showgirl brides-to-be at the altar, the compensation bills are mounting. After the most recent episode, he hears Angela (Vera-Ellen) leading a Salvation Army band in song. He falls in love at first sight and when she scoffs at him, telling him that if he were in love his feet would leave the ground, he promptly floats high into the air. He pursues her, even vowing to do an honest day's work for the first time in his life. After various attempts to convince her, Angela's feeling finally cause her feet to leave the ground. After a couple of misunderstandings are resolved, they float into the air together, to a chorus of well-wishers below.
The Brigand (1952)
, 1h33Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance, Anthony Quinn, Gale Robbins, Carl Benton Reid, Ron Randell
Roles Countess Flora
Rating59%
A rogue exile impersonates a King and a virtuous person wants to be so because he is the rightful heir to the throne.
Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Beverly Garland, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins, Maria Palmer
Roles Marie Donnelly
Rating57%
In New York in the 1920s, amorous opera star Augustino "Gus" Caraffa (Ezio Pinza) crosses paths with Isabelle Perry (Janet Leigh), a naive music student from Mississippi who is his biggest fan. When a news photographer catches them in a kiss, it is proposed that they get married in name only to avoid a scandal. Isabelle, who is in love with Gus, agrees to the charade, hoping that he will eventually fall in love with her.
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Red Skelton, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins, Jeff Donnell
Roles Ruby Rawlings
Rating65%
Sally (Lucille Ball) et son petit ami Humphrey (Eddie Albert), se trouvent mêlés à la mort de M Simpson, la femme de leur patron Harvey Simpson (Jerome Cowan).
Three Little Words (1950)
, 1h42Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins
Roles Terry Lordel
Rating68%
Bert Kalmar (Fred Astaire), danseur et prestidigitateur, doit abandonner la scène après une mauvaise fracture du genou. C’est sa rencontre avec un pianiste inconnu, Harry Ruby (Red Skelton), qui va lui permettre de remonter la pente. De cette rencontre, naît une amitié sincère ponctuée de hauts et de bas qui débouche, après dix années de collaboration, sur la création d’une chanson « Three Little Words ».
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
, 1h29Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins, Anthony Ross
Roles Terry Romaine
Rating64%
Childhood friends Rocky Barnes (Stevens) and Dan Purvis (O'Brien) are Los Angeles prowl car cops on night duty. Barnes is easygoing while Purvis is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum. Both men are attracted to radio communicator Kate Mallory (Storm) but she is reluctant to get involved with policemen, her cop father having been killed in the line of duty.
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
, 1h49Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Betty Blythe, Gale Robbins
Roles Shirlene May
Rating69%
Josh and Dinah Barkley (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) are a husband-and-wife musical comedy team at the peak of their careers. After finishing a new show, Dinah meets serious French playwright Jacques Pierre Barredout (Jacques François), who suggests that Dinah should take up dramatic acting. Dinah tries to keep the suggestion a secret from Josh, but when he finally discovers Dinah hiding a script for Jacques' new show from him, the couple splits up.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)
, 1h33Directed by John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mark Stevens, June Haver, Edward Clark, John Davidson, S.Z. Sakall, James Griffith
Roles Marie Carle
Rating59%
The film is a fictionalized biography of Fred Fisher, a German-born American writer of Tin Pan Alley songs. Tin Pan Alley promoter (Mark Stevens) turns serious composer Fred Breitenbach (S.Z. Sakall) into songwriter Fred Fisher. Fred Fisher is his assumed name in real life and Breitenbach is his birth surname. In the film, many Fisher songs were given a symphonic arrangement that was performed at Aeolian Hall. Among the Fisher songs heard were:
My Girl Tisa (1948)
, 1h35Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lilli Palmer, Sam Wanamaker, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Hale, Hugo Haas, Gale Robbins
Roles Jenny Kepes
Rating65%
Race Street (1948)
, 1h19Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Russell Hicks
Roles Elaine Gannin
Rating64%
When his bookie pal Hal is killed, nightclub owner Dan Gannin intends to do something about it. His police pal Lt. Runson warns him not to take the law into his own hands.
My Dear Secretary (1948)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallée, Florence Bates
Roles Dawn O'Malley
Rating57%
Successful novelist and playboy Owen Waterbury (Kirk Douglas) hires aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord (Laraine Day) as his secretary; a dream come true for Steve who admires Owen and his work. Steve soon finds out that the egomaniacal Owen has gone through a series of secretaries who have left when they are fed up with his behaviour. He is constantly in debt and cannot begin to write a contracted novel that will pay his bills including a lucrative advance by his publisher. Steve perseveres until the novel, based on the events of Steve's life and that mentions a character based on his publisher shown in an unflattering light, is refused publication.