[4] She appeared on Broadway with her sisters in Flying High (1930) and George White's Scandals (1931).

[5] In the early 1930s, she made her first films in Hollywood originally as a Goldwyn Girl in Roman Scandals,[6] and gradually she rose to more notable parts, generally in B movies after signing with Fox in 1936.

[7] In December 1939, Gale married Oscar Levant in Fredericksburg, Virginia,[8] and they remained wed until his death in 1972.

[9][10] Gale died of pneumonia on November 13, 1996, aged 85, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

[11] She was buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.