Best known as Mrs. Oscar Levant and for the acute tabloid problems that accompanied that title, gorgeous blonde actress June Gale started things off in a vaudeville sister act that led to her becoming a Broadway and second-string movie actress of the 1930s. June began life as twin Doris Gilmartin on July 6, 1911 in San Francisco along with her ...
Her eldest daughter, Marcia Ann (1940-2006) married journalist Jerry Tallmer.
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In an article by Laura Wagner for Films of the Golden Age, Issue #79, Winter 2014/2015, June was extremely intimidated by and felt out of place with the genius of her husband and his intellectual circle of friends, including Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. When she complained to Oscar begging him to hang out with their more "ordinary" friends, he instead bought her books and scolded her for wanting to be "a baby doll" all her life.
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Singer, dancer and actress, who began her career in vaudeville. Later performed with her sisters at the Paramount and Palace Theaters in New York and in George White's "Scandals" on Broadway.
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When June was performing with her twin sister Jean Gale and her other two sisters, Joan Gale and Jane Gale [also twins], they were billed as quadruplets instead of two sets of twins.
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Had three daughters with husband Oscar Levant: Marcia, Lorna, and Amanda.
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