Gail Gerber, a free-spirited blonde with a penchant for unconventional personas, arrived in Hollywood in 1963, having previously enjoyed a successful career as a ballet dancer and television actress in Canada.
Between 1964 and 1965, Gerber made a lasting impression on fans of teenage drive-in movies, appearing in six films.
During this period, she co-starred with the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, in two notable films: Girl Happy (1965),where she played a vacationing coed, and Harum Scarum (1965),in which she portrayed a dancing gypsy.
Gerber's subsequent film roles included a frolicking stint on the sun-kissed shores of California in The Girls on the Beach (1965) and Beach Ball (1965).
In Village of the Giants (1965),she took on a new challenge, growing to gigantic proportions alongside five other delinquent teenagers who terrorized a small town.
Gerber's life took a dramatic turn when she met writer Terry Southern on the set of The Loved One (1965). The two left Hollywood in 1966 to live together in New York and later Connecticut, where Gerber remained Southern's longtime companion until his passing thirty years later.
