Gloria Pall

Gloria Pall (born Gloria Pallatz; July 15, 1927 – December 30, 2012) was an American model, showgirl, actress, author and businesswoman. Biography Gloria Pallatz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927. She attended the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics to learn to be an aircraft mechanic and work on war planes. During World War II, she worked as an aircraft mechanic in upstate New York at the 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. Fourteen people were killed; she narrowly escaped. In 1947, she entered and won a "Miss Flatbush" contest which 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.