Gloria Pall was an American model, showgirl, film and television actress, author and businesswoman. Pall was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an English family. During World War II, she worked as an aircraft mechanic in upstate New York at Rome Army Air Depot. On July 28, 1945 she was employed by the USO headquarters office on the 56th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City when a U.S. Army B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the 79th floor. In 1947 Gloria Pall won a beauty contest that opened the door to work as a model. She worked as a showgirl in both Reno and Las Vegas as well as in Hollywood where for a time she was chosen to be "Miss Earl Carroll" from the huge cast of beauties. This was at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Blvd. in 1952. She dated Howard Hughes for a time. Pall got her first acting job on television in 1951 and went on to a successful career as an actress for ten years, primarily in secondary and minor roles. In 1958, she was cast as Blanche Golden in "Abracadabra" of the western aviation adventure series, Sky King, starring Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters. Pall had a small role in the The Twilight Zone episode, "And When the Sky Was Opened". 

July 15th, 1929 in Brooklyn  /  Died:   Dec 30th, 2012 - Age 85