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{{Short description|American actress (1913–1983)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name           = Gale Page
| image          = Gale Page in Four Daughters trailer.jpg
| caption        = [[Trailer (promotion)|Trailer]] for ''[[Four Daughters (1938 film)|Four Daughters]]'' (1938)
| birth_name     = Sally Perkins Rutter
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1910|07|29|mf=yes}}
| birth_place    = 
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1983|1|08|1910|7|29|mf=yes}}
| death_place    = 
| occupation     = Actress
| years_active   = 1934&ndash;1964
| spouse         = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Frederick M. Tritschler|<!--unknown?-->|1939|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Aldo Solito de Solis|1942|1973|reason=died}}
}}
| children       = 3  
}}

'''Gale Page''' (born '''Sally Perkins Rutter''';<ref name=fga>{{cite journal|last1=Wagner|first1=Laura|title=Gale Page: "The Fourth Lane Sister"|journal=Films of the Golden Age|date=Fall 2016|issue=86|pages=77–78}}</ref> July 29, 1910<ref name=fga/><ref>[http://death-records.mooseroots.com Sally R. Desolis death record] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224033607/http://death-records.mooseroots.com/ |date=2018-02-24 }}, mooseroots.com; accessed February 1, 2017.</ref> &ndash; January 8, 1983) was an American singer and actress.<ref name=mj>{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Edgar A.|title=Gale Page Fulfills an Ambition|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19390702&id=H4dSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3048,3825955&hl=en|accessdate=July 12, 2015|agency=The Milwaukee Journal|date=July 2, 1939|page=14}}{{deadlink|date=July 2023}}</ref>

==Early life==
Page was the daughter of R.L. and Isabel ({{nee}} Gale) Rutter of [[Spokane, Washington]].<ref name=drnh>{{cite news|title=Gale Page Wed In Idaho To Count Aldo Solito De Solis|newspaper=Del Rio News Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2797099/del_rio_news_herald|agency=Del Rio News Herald|date=August 18, 1942|page=3|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> Her aunt and uncle were Elizabeth Gale Page and [[Miles Poindexter]], a U.S. senator from [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and later U.S. Ambassador to Peru.<ref name=ose>{{cite news|title=Gale Page Wins Divorce|newspaper=The Ogden Standard-Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2796045/the_ogden_standardexaminer|agency=The Ogden Standard-Examiner|date=October 22, 1939|page=12|via= Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> She was also the great-granddaughter of [[Joseph Gale]], the first governor of Oregon.<ref>{{cite news|title=Radio News Notes|newspaper=The Circleville Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2797172/the_circleville_herald/|agency=The Circleville Herald|date=August 8, 1944|page=7|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>

==Career==
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===Radio===
Page was a radio actress and singer<ref>{{cite book|last1=Caffery|first1=Joshua Clegg|title=Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings|date=2013|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=9780807152027|page=287|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbxKAQAAQBAJ&q=%22Gale+Page%22+actress&pg=PA287|accessdate=23 November 2016|language=en}}</ref> before being signed to a Hollywood film contract by [[Warner Brothers]] in 1938.

She sang on a [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]] station before getting a job on [[KYW (AM)#Origin in Chicago (1921)|KYW]] radio in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], subsequently moving to NBC, where her network activities included singing on ''[[Fibber McGee and Molly]]''.<ref name=mj/> Page was cast as blues singer Gertrude Lamont in the 1935 soap opera ''Masquerade''.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Masquerade,+soap+opera+Broadcast+history+April+8+June+28,+1935%22+%22Gale+Page%22&pg=PA442 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Masquerade |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=442 |edition=Revised |access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref> Beginning on May 27, 1936,<ref>{{cite news|title=Singer Gale Page|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2795427/carroll_daily_herald/|agency=Carroll Daily Herald|date=May 30, 1936|page=3}}</ref> she played Gloria Marsh on the soap opera ''[[Today's Children]]''. In the summer of 1939, she co-starred with [[Jim Ameche]] on ''[[Hollywood Playhouse]]''.<ref name=mj/>

===Film===
Page made her film debut in ''[[Crime School]]'' (1938)<ref name=fga/> with [[Humphrey Bogart]] and also appeared in ''[[The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse]]'' (1938) before winning the role of the fourth daughter in ''[[Four Daughters (1938 film)|Four Daughters]]'' (1938). She co-starred in this with the [[Lane Sisters]] and was the only film "daughter" not played by one of the Lanes. Page appeared in three other films with the Lane sisters: ''[[Daughters Courageous]]'' (1939) and the two "Four Daughters" sequels: ''[[Four Wives]]'' (1939) and ''[[Four Mothers]]'' (1941).

Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including ''[[Heart of the North]]'' (1938), ''[[You Can't Get Away with Murder]]'' (1939), ''[[Naughty but Nice (1939 film)|Naughty but Nice]]'' (1939), ''[[They Drive by Night]]'' (1940), ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'' (1940), ''[[The Time of Your Life (film)|The Time of Your Life]]'' (1948), and ''[[Anna Lucasta (1949 film)|Anna Lucasta]]'' (1949).

===Television===
Page was a semi-regular performer on the television series ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]'' from 1954 until 1957.

==Personal life==
Page was first married to Frederick M. Tritschler, with whom she had a son.<ref>{{cite news|title=Actress Gale Page Gives Birth to Twins|newspaper=The Decatur Daily Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2795954/the_decatur_daily_review|agency=The Decatur Daily Review|date=February 26, 1943|page=25|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref name=ose/> They divorced on October 20, 1939.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Hollywood Marriages Fail|newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2796002/the_san_bernardino_county_sun|agency=The San Bernardino County Sun|date=October 21, 1939|page=1|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>

On August 17, 1942,<ref name=drnh/> Page married Count Aldo Solìto de Solis,<ref name="countess">{{cite news|title=Gale Page, Count de Solis To Present Famed Popular Music|newspaper=The van Nuys News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2795553/the_van_nuys_news/|agency=The Van Nuys News|date=August 25, 1949|page=1|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> a pianist and composer.<ref name="varietycelebritylist">{{cite news|title=Famous Pianist-Composer, Solito de Solis Added to Valley Celebrity List|newspaper=The van Nuys News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2795676/the_van_nuys_news|agency=Van Nuys News|date=February 16, 1948|page=5|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=July 12, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> In 1943, they had twins, Marina Francesca and Luchino Giovanni. By this marriage the actress acquired the title '''Countess Solìto de Solis'''. The count died in 1973, a decade before his wife.<ref name="varietycelebritylist"/><ref name="countess"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|id=0656175|name=Gale Page}}

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[[Category:1910 births]]
[[Category:1983 deaths]]
[[Category:Countesses]]
[[Category:20th-century American actresses]]
[[Category:American film actresses]]
[[Category:American television actresses]]
[[Category:American radio actresses]]
[[Category:Deaths from lung cancer in California]]
[[Category:Actresses from Spokane, Washington]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. contract players]]