Gale Page

Gale Page (born Sally Perkins Rutter; July 29, 1910 – January 8, 1983) was an American singer and actress.

Early life Page was the daughter of R.L. and Isabel ( Gale) Rutter of Spokane, Washington. Her aunt and uncle were Elizabeth Gale Page 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.

Career

Radio 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. 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.

On August 17, 1942, a pianist and composer. In 1943, they had twins, Marina Francesca and Luchino Giovanni. By this marriage the actress acquired the title Countess Solìto de Solis. The count died in 1973, a decade before his wife.