She became a producer at the Kennedy Center in the 1970s.
In the 1960s, she managed a clothing store and interviewed celebrities on a local radio station in California. She married Milton Rackmil, the founder of Decca Records and the president of Universal Pictures.
Gladys' first show-business job was on the staff of "Queen for a Day", a 1940s radio game show.
Her father was an Englishman who worked in advertising, and her mother was from Romania.