page_title: Frank Gallop
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Gallop / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Photo of announcer Frank Gallop at home.
context_page_description: Frank Gallop was an American radio and television personality.
context_section_description: In the mid 1940s, Frank Gallop met a beautiful chorus girl from Texas named Mary Lou Bentley (also Bently) who had been having a relationship with Walter Winchell.  When her presence in the columnist's life became evident to his family and she realized he would not divorce his wife, she tried ending the relationship with Winchell and became Gallop's neighbor by moving into his Park Avenue apartment building.
  A romance developed between the pair, and at some point before 1946, they were married. Winchell was unwilling to concede the end of their relationship and continued to pursue Bentley with flowers and other gifts.  Gallop became the object of his wrath.  Winchell was able to have him constantly followed by police. He also learned where Gallop was auditioning for announcing jobs and convinced radio program sponsors not to hire him.  Gallop was fired from a soap opera announcing job because of Winchell's pressure. By 1948, the couple divorced.
  Gallop liked being well-dressed, with a closet full of suits and ties for all occasions.  He contended that the very strong coffee he brewed was wonderful, while his friends would ask for tea instead after sampling it. He admitted to being somewhat superstitious in some respects such as stopping at the same newsstand after work because he had been a customer there after his first Lights Out appearance.  Gallop also said he disliked having the trait. In addition to doing his own decorating, Gallop collected art.
  Remaining active in announcing into the 1970s, Gallop divided his time between homes in New York and Palm Beach, Florida. Despite being a former investment consultant, Gallop said in a 1958 interview that he had "never made a nickel in the market in my life."
caption: Gallop at home in 1951, where he also did his own decorating.[38]
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