Brian Mc Posted November 24, 2014 Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 From a 1952 radio/tv magazine: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Mc Posted November 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 This is the correct post -- sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Mc Posted November 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2014 Was just checking out the reference to Gale's plays and found this -- The Jungle’s Claws, a play in three acts by G.Gordon D20401 copyright January 20 1933 Gale Gordon, Park Ridge Ill. 296 Catalog of Copyright Entries, Library of Congress. Could this be one of them? Was Gale ever in Illinois? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Never heard of Gale's playwriting. His given name Charles Aldrich, Jr. would seem a perfectly fine name for him. Was his vaudevillian dad so famous he didn't want the same name? Or was there some sort of rift along the way? Gordon must have been his mother's maiden name, but why would any man CHOOSE the first name Gale? (Apologies to any male Gales or Ga-males out there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Never heard of Gale's playwriting. His given name Charles Aldrich, Jr. would seem a perfectly fine name for him. Was his vaudevillian dad so famous he didn't want the same name? Or was there some sort of rift along the way? Gordon must have been his mother's maiden name, but why would any man CHOOSE the first name Gale? (Apologies to any male Gales or Ga-males out there). Charles Sr. was still very active in theatre when Charles Jr. made his stage debut "The Dancers", and was for the remainder of the 1920s. He died in 1953. I'm not sure if there was a rift, but Charles Sr. had a second family after he and Gloria split, but I have been unable to find any information on his half brothers. Theoretically a couple of them could still be alive, but there weren't any references to any of his siblings, other than his full sister Judy (nee Jewell), in Gale's obituaries. One half-brother, Atwood, died the same year as their father and is buried in the family plot. His stepmother died in 1954. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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