A major little talent, this French-American moppet star of the late '40s and early '50s was not able to parlay her precocious popularity into a sizeable adult career, but has nevertheless maintained on the fringe for decades. Gigi Perreau was born in Los Angeles to a French father, who fled his native country at the onset of WWII, and an American ...
Gina Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle Elena Bianco and Keith H. deRuelle, Gina Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle Elaina Bianco and Keith H. deRuelle
Star Sign
Aquarius
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[in an interview while a child star] I'm going to be an actress until I die.
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Fact
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When young Gigi's mother lived in Japan where she met and married Robert Perreau, who worked in a Tokyo bank, They moved to France then, when the Germans invaded in WWII, to Lisbon then onto America.and Los Angeles where Gigi was born. One day mom, accompanied by Gigi and her brother Peter stopped by Warner Brother's studio to meet a friend an agent saw the kids and within a few months they were in films, Gigi in Madame Curie and Peter in Passage to Marseilles.
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Brother Peter is 3 years older than Gigi while her sister Janine is 2 years younger.
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After a decade on Broadway, Gigi has taught drama for several years at her alma mater, Immaculate Heart High School. IHHS is a college preparatory Catholic all-girls school in Hollywood, CA. [1998]
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Mother of four - Gina Gallo Paris, Robert Anthony Gallo, Danielle Elaina Bianco, and Keith H. deRuelle.
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Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television", by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
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Appeared with Donna Reed in the film Green Dolphin Street (1947), and later served on the Board of Directors of the Donna Reed Foundation.
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Vice-President of the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California and also served on the Board of Directors for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.
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Gigi and her brother, Peter Miles, once managed a popular Los Angeles art gallery.
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