Trivia

Gale's husband of 25 years, Robert Olson, a building contractor, was killed in 1967 when he fell off a wall in an Encino parking lot. He was also survived by their two children.

Once chairwoman of the Asthmatic Foundation in Arizona. She also was a fundraiser for such charities as the City of Hope.

In the late 1940s, she was offered a long-term contract from MGM, but she turned it down and remained a freelancing talent.

Turned down a lead role on Broadway in "Finian's Rainbow" in favor of a support role in the film My Dear Secretary (1948) at RKO.

According to Laura Wagner in her full-length article on Gale, the actress/singer once was supposed to replace actress Rose Marie in the Broadway hit "Top Banana" but had to drop out due to illness. She later turned down a lead role with Alfred Drake in the Broadway musical "Kismet" because she did not want to commit to a year's contract.

In The Girl on Cloud Nine (1959), she sings the French song "C'est si bon" which was written in 1947 by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics).

Daughter of Rex Oswalt Fields and Blanche Marie Burton. Her parents divorced, and her mother married Arthur Robbins, whose name she used professionally.