Gail Gilmore(1937-2014)
- Actress
- Executive
A cute blonde with an unconventional personality, hence the name
changes, Gail Gerber (a.k.a. Gail Gilmore, a.k.a. Gale Gerber, a.k.a.
Gail Gibson) came to Hollywood in 1963 after a successful career as a
ballet dancer and TV actress in Canada. Betweeen 1964 and 1965, she
appeared in six movies leaving an indelible impression on fans of
teenage drive-in movies. Gilmore co-starred with
Elvis Presley twice, playing a vacationing
coed in Girl Happy (1965) and a
dancing gypsy in
Harum Scarum (1965). She then
frolicked on the seashores of sunny Southern California in
The Girls on the Beach (1965)
and Beach Ball (1965) before growing
to gigantic proportions along with five other delinquent teenagers who
terrorize a town in
Village of the Giants (1965).
Gilmore met writer Terry Southern on the
set of The Loved One (1965) and
abandoned Hollywood in 1966 to live with him in New York then
Connecticut where she remained his longtime companion until his death
thirty years later.
