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Gail Kobe (born Gabriella Kieliszewski;[2][3] March 19, 1932[1] – August 1, 2013) was an American actress and television producer.
Early years
Kobe was born Gabriella Kieliszewski in Hamtramck, Michigan (within Detroit), the younger child of Benjamin and Theresa Kieliszewski, who later Americanized their surname. She had one sibling, an older sister, Beatrice (later Mrs. Walter Adamski), who predeceased her. Kobe graduated from UCLA earning a fine arts degree in theatre and dance.[4] Kobe had polio as a child and began dancing as a form of therapy. A heart murmur that she developed in her high school years caused her to cease dancing.[2] She graduated from Hamtramck High School.[5]
Early career
Kobe portrayed Penny Adams on the TV series Trackdown.[6] She appeared on the Alcoa Theatre in a 1958 episode titled "Disappearance" starring Jack Lemmon and Joan Blackman. In 1965 she portrayed Doris Schuster on TV's Peyton Place.[2] She also appeared on daytime television in the NBC serial Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–1972).[7]
On February 17, 1959, Kobe was cast in the episode "Disaster Town" of the series Rescue 8 in the role of Ellen Mason, a mother looking for her son in a western ghost town.
In the series, Laramie, Kobe played a saloon girl in the episode "Gun Duel" (aired December 25, 1962).
Later career
Kobe began to work behind the camera as supervising producer and associate producer on such daytime programs as CBS's The Edge of Night and NBC's Return to Peyton Place. From 1981 to 1982, its final year on the air, Kobe became executive producer of the NBC soap opera, Texas. From 1983 to May 1986, she was the executive producer of CBS's Guiding Light (for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award) and then served as a producer on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful from its debut in 1987 through the early 1990s.[8]
Kobe was a member of St. Louis Church. She volunteered many hours to Eisenhower Medical Center and the Palm Springs Art Museum while she lived in Palm Springs. While she resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund Home in Woodland Hills, California, she organized the program, We've Got Mail, which airs on cable Channel 22.[citation needed]
Honors
In 2008, a Golden Palm Star on the Walk of Stars was dedicated in Kobe's honor.[10]
(1) Season 1 Episode 1: "The Marple Brothers" (1957) (2) Season 1 Episode 23: "The House" (1958) (3) Season 1 Episode 24: "The Boy" (1958) (4) Season 1 Episode 25: "The Pueblo Kid" (1958) (5) Season 1 Episode 29: "The Jailbreak" (1958) (6) Season 2 Episode 12: "Sunday's Child" (1958)
^According to the 1940 United States census records, her name is listed as "Gabriella Kobe" and her age is eight years old, indicating 1932 year of birth; it is unclear when her parents, listed as Benjamin and Theresa Kobe, changed the original surname (Kieliszewski). Source Information: Ancestry.com. California, Divorce Index, 1966–1984 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: State of California. California Divorce Index, 1966–1984. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
