Gloria Pall
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Gloria Pall (born July 15, 1929) is an American model, showgirl, film and television actress, author and businesswoman.
Pall was born in Brooklyn, New York to an English family. During World War II, she worked as an aircraft mechanic in upstate New York at Rome Army Air Depot. O On July 28, 1945 she was employed by the USO headquarters office on the 56th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City when a U.S. Army B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the 79th floor.
In 1947 Gloria Pall won a beauty contest that opened the door to work as a model. She worked as a showgirl in both Reno and Las Vegas as well as in Hollywood where for a time she was she was chosen to be "Miss Earl Carroll" from the huge cast of beauties. This was at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Blvd. in 1952 She dated Howard Hughes for a time.
Pall got her first acting job on television in 1951 and went on to a successful career as an actress for ten years, primarily in secondary and minor roles. She had a small roll as the dancer whose legs only are seen in the 1957 Elvis Presley hit, Jailhouse Rock. She has appeared on the cover of several national celebrity magazines and twice was a centerfold in Esquire magazine.
In 1955 she developed a show called "Voluptua" for KABC-TV that caused a furor for what was then seen as obscenity. Cancelled after seven weeks, it got her a feature story in Life and Playboy magazines. In 1959, Gloria Pall began developing a career in real-estate career and in 1962 opened her own office on Sunset Strip. As well, in later years she turned to writing books about Hollywood, penning self-published books under Showgirl Press of Hollywood including the following:
- Voluptua: Story of a TV Love Goddess (1992)
- Cameo Girl of the 50's (1993)
- I Danced Before the King (2000)
- The Marilyn Monroe Party (2002)
[edit] Filmography
- All Ashore (1953)
- Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953)
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
- The French Line (1954)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- City of Shadows (1955)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Hot Shots (1956)
- The Garment Jungle (1957)
- This Could Be the Night (1957)
- Jailhouse Rock (1957)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
- The Crimson Kimono (1959)
- Elmer Gantry (1960)
