Gail Boggs

Gail Charlene Boggs (born August 10, 1951) is an American actress. She played Louise Brown in the 1990 film Ghost.

Career

title = [Boggs] is a zesty belter in the theatrical pop-soul mold of Donna Summer and Irene Cara. — Stephen Holden

In a 1975 interview, she reported that a chance meeting with Todd Rundgren at an intersection in Manhattan led her to singing backup alongside her friend Darcy Miller and Laura Nyro on Felix Cavaliere's second album, Destiny, before singing with Hall & Oates on War Babies as well as with Carly Simon on Spy and Come Upstairs. During the mid-1970s, Boggs provided vocals and percussion as a member of "The Striders" alongside "The Original Flying Machine"-alum Joel "Bishop" O'Brien and Robbie Dupree. Boggs was also a vocalist in David Sancious's short-lived band "Tone".

In 1984, Boggs starred in the one-woman cabaret nightclub act The Gail Boggs Show at "Upstairs at Greene Street". The show ran weekly for the next year and a half. Boggs was one of the first to hear a recording of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and she pushed Grammy Award-winning writer and producer Nile Rodgers to release the song as the first single off Madonna's then-upcoming album. Images of Boggs are found in the Martha Swope archive at the New York Public Library.

Personal life Boggs was married to Eric Larson, a voice actor and music editor.

Acting 1971: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia) 1972: Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers 1972: Mother Earth at the Belasco Theatre 1974: Candide (Penitente / Whore / Houri) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 1979: Ain't Misbehavin' 1982: Elizabeth Swados's Lullabye and Goodnight (Velvet Puppy) 1987: The Bronx Zoo (Roz Hemphill) 1988: And God Created Woman (Denise) 1989: The Boss (Luanda) 1990: Ghost (Louise Brown, sister of Ode Mae Brown played by Whoopi Goldberg) 1991: Curly Sue (Anise Hall) 1993: Cancelled Lives: Letters from the Inside 1995: Get Smart (2nd nurse) 1995: Boy Meets World (nurse) 1999: EDtv 2020: Better Things