Gale Robbins was a knockout-looking hazel-eyed redhead who made a modest dent in post-war Hollywood films. Gale had a natural flair for music and appeared in glee clubs and church choirs in the early days. She graduated from her Chicago high school in 1939.

She started out in entertainment as a model in Chicago, but her singing talents soon took over. Signed by a talent agency, she sang with Phil Levant’s outfit in 1940 and later teamed with some male singers for a swing band that called themselves “The Duchess and Her Dukes.”

20th Century-Fox spotted her while she was singing for Ben Bernie’s outfit and quickly signed her up, her first film being the pleasant time-filler In the Meantime, Darling (1944). A semi-popular cheesecake pin-up, Gale appeared on the cover of “Yank, The Army Weekly” in 1944, was heard on radio, and toured with Bob Hope in Europe the next year. Her post-war parts, mostly sultry second leads, were typically lightweight in nature. She was often lent out to other studios and not always in a singing mode. 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).

Gale went on to host the Hollywood House (1949) and also appeared on The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). In the late 50s she released an easy-listening album (“I’m a Dreamer”) for the Vik Label backed by Eddie Cano & His Orchestra. She covered such standards as “Them There Eyes” and “What Is This Thing Called Love.” After her final film appearance in Quantrill’s Raiders (1958) and a few additional TV parts on such programs as “Bourbon Street Beat,” “77 Sunset Strip,” “The Untouchables,” “Perry Mason” and “Mister Ed,” Gale phased out her career in 1972 to focus full-time on raising her family.

She passed away at 58 from Lung Cancer