Gale Page

Born: 1913-07-29

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gale Page (born Sally Perkins Rutter July 29, 1910 – January 8, 1983) was an American singer and actress. Page was the daughter of R.L. and Isabel (Gale) Rutter of Spokane. Her aunt and uncle were Elizabeth Gale Page (1866-1929) and Miles Poindexter, a U.S. senator from Washington and later U.S. Ambassador to Peru. She was also the great-granddaughter of Joseph Gale, the first governor of Oregon. Page was a radio actress and singer before being signed to a Hollywood film contract by Warner Brothers in 1938. She sang on a Spokane station before getting a job on KYW radio in Chicago, Illinois, subsequently moving to NBC, where her network activities included singing on Fibber McGee and Molly. Page was cast as blues singer Gertrude Lamont in the 1935 soap opera Masquerade. Beginning on May 27, 1936, she played Gloria Marsh on the soap opera Today's Children. In the summer of 1939, she co-starred with Jim Ameche on Hollywood Playhouse. She made her film debut in Crime School (1938) with Humphrey Bogart and also appeared in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) before winning the role of the fourth daughter in Four Daughters (1938). She co-starred in this with the Lane Sisters and was the only film "daughter" not played by one of the Lanes. She appeared in three other films with the Lane sisters: Daughters Courageous (1939) and the two "Four Daughters" sequels: Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941). Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including Heart of the North (1938), You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939), Naughty but Nice (1939), They Drive by Night (1940), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), The Time of Your Life (1948), and Anna Lucasta (1949). Page was a semi-regular performer on the television series Robert Montgomery Presents from 1954 until 1957. Page died in Santa Monica, California, aged 72, from lung cancer.


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They Drive by Night

as Pearl Fabrini
Released: 1940-07-26

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small...

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Nurse Randolph
Released: 1938-07-20

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by...

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Knute Rockne All American

as Bonnie Skiles Rockne
Released: 1940-10-05

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

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Four Daughters

as Emma Lemp
Released: 1938-08-09

Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live...

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The Time of Your Life

as Mary
Released: 1948-09-03

Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once...

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You Can't Get Away with Murder

as Madge Stone
Released: 1939-03-23

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun...

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Daughters Courageous

as Cora Masters
Released: 1939-06-23

Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam...

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Anna Lucasta

as Katie
Released: 1949-07-11

A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law...

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Four Mothers

as Emma Lemp Talbot
Released: 1941-01-04

Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.

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Crime School

as Sue Warren
Released: 1938-05-10

In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a...

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A Child Is Born

as Miss Bowers
Released: 1939-12-07

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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Four Wives

as Emma Lemp Talbot
Released: 1939-12-22

In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as...

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Naughty But Nice

as Linda McKay
Released: 1939-06-23

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and...

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Indianapolis Speedway

as Lee Mason
Released: 1939-08-05

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...

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Heart of the North

as Elizabeth Spaulding
Released: 1938-12-10

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound...

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