Gloria Pall (July 15, 1927 — December 30, 2012) 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.