was Gloria Jean Schoonover was born on April 14, 1926 in Buffalo, New York. 

 At age twelve, Gloria was taken to an audition by Universal director Joe Pasternak, who was looking for a new child singer to star in a movie. Gloria won the audition over many other girls and she and her mother were soon on their way to Hollywood. Gloria's first film, in 1939, was "The Under-Pup", a typical Little Miss Fix-it story. 

 Her next movie, "A Little Bit of Heaven", was arguably Gloria's best. Surrounded by veteran actors such as Eugene Pallette, C. Aubrey Smith, Bob Cummings, a young Robert Stack, and Nan Grey, Gloria sang her way into the hearts of moviegoers everywhere.  Her next picture,, "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break," with W.C. Fields in 1941, is the one in which she is most seen today. 

 "What's Cooking", "Get Hep to Love", "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and "It Comes Up Love," were all shot in 1942. "Mr. Big," and "Moonlight in Vermont" followed in 1943. All of the above were stock B films which appealed to teenagers of the time.

. Groucho Marx got her a role in his picture "Copacabana", in which she got to sing one song. Two mediocre pictures, "I Surrender, Dear" and "Manhattan Angel", followed this. Then she appeared in "An Old Fashioned Girl," an excellent and underrated movie. The rather awful "There's a Girl in My Heart" followed.

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