Alta Gwendolyn Gaze (6 September 1915[2] – 29 August 2010)[3] was an American-based film actress (1937–1943), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Gaze was a graduate of Pasadena Junior College in California and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.

[4] Gaze was signed by Universal Pictures, making her film debut opposite John Wayne in I Cover the War (1937).

Her first Hoppy film, Partners of the Plains, offered one of her strongest characters as domineering English girl, Lorna Drake.

[citation needed] She is perhaps best remembered as the ingenue in the 1938 serial The Secret of Treasure Island opposite action star Don Terry.