"[4] A 1932 newspaper article about an Easter program at Robert E. Lee School noted, "Nancy Gates, presenting a soft-shoe number, will open the style show.

[6] In 1935,[7] she appeared in the production A Kiss for Cinderella, which starred Brenda Marshall, and a minstrel show that included Ann Sheridan, both of whom were from Denton.

[9] Musically oriented, Gates was featured as a singer in a 1942 concert by the North Texas State Teachers College stage band.

[13] A February 21, 1944, newspaper article noted that Gates would "appear in a series of air programs for the RKO Studios beginning Feb.

"[14] In 1951, she starred on Screen Director's Playhouse opposite William Holden in Remember the Night[15] and on Lux Radio Theatre in a supporting role in Sunset Boulevard.

In 1965 she again played the role of Perry's client, this time as Claire Armstrong, the title character, in "The Case of the Candy Queen".

She was married to Hollywood attorney and business manager J. William Hayes, whom she met when he was a commercial pilot and she was a passenger on one of his flights.