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Gale Storm
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-04-05,Bloomington, Texas, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955. When Storm was 17, two of her teachers urged her to enter a contest on Gateway to Hollywood, broadcast from the CBS Radio studios in Hollywood. First prize was a one-year contract with a movie studio. She won and was immediately given the stage name Gale Storm. Her performing partner (and future husband), Lee Bonnell from South Bend, Indiana, became known as Terry Belmont. Storm had a role in the radio version of Big Town. After winning the contest in 1940, Storm made several films for the RKO Radio Pictures studio. Her first was Tom Brown's School Days, playing opposite Jimmy Lydon and Freddie Bartholomew. She worked steadily in low-budget films released during this period. In 1941, she sang in several soundies, three-minute musicals produced for "movie jukeboxes". She acted and sang in Monogram Pictures' Frankie Darro series, and played ingénue roles in other Monogram features with the East Side Kids, Edgar Kennedy, and the Three Stooges, most notably in the film Swing Parade of 1946. Monogram had always relied on established actors with reputations, but in Gale Storm, the studio finally had a star of its own. She played the lead in the studio's most elaborate productions, both musical and dramatic. She shared top billing in Monogram's Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher, opposite Edgar Kennedy, Richard Cromwell, and Frank Graham in the role of Jones, a character derived from network radio. Storm starred in a number of films, including the romantic comedies G.I. Honeymoon and It Happened on Fifth Avenue, the Western Stampede, and the 1950 film-noir dramas The Underworld Story and Between Midnight and Dawn. U.S. audiences warmed to Storm and her fan mail increased. She performed in more than three dozen motion pictures for Monogram, experience which made possible her success in other media. In the 1950s, she made singing appearances on such television variety programs as The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. In 1950, Storm made her television debut in Hollywood Premiere Theatre on ABC. From 1952 to 1955, she starred in My Little Margie, with former silent film actor Charles Farrell as her father. The series began as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy on CBS, but ran for 126 episodes on NBC and then CBS. The series was broadcast on CBS Radio from December 1952 to August 1955 with the same actors. Her popularity was capitalized on when she served as hostess of the NBC Comedy Hour in the winter of 1956. That year, she starred in another situation comedy, The Gale Storm Show (Oh! Susanna), featuring another silent movie star, ZaSu Pitts. The show ran for 143 episodes on CBS and ABC between 1956 and 1960. Storm appeared regularly on other television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. She was both a panelist and a "mystery guest" on CBS's What's My Line?

Filmography

6.2

Abandoned
1949-10-26

Revenge of the Zombies

5.2

Revenge of the Zombies
1943-09-17

The Underworld Story

6.1

The Underworld Story
1950-07-26

Tom Brown's School Days

7.2

Tom Brown's School Days
1940-06-26

Between Midnight and Dawn

5.8

Between Midnight and Dawn
1950-10-01

Swing Parade of 1946

4.2

Swing Parade of 1946
1946-03-19

The Kid from Texas

5.3

The Kid from Texas
1950-03-01

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

7.1

It Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947-04-17

Gambling Daughters

5

Gambling Daughters
1941-08-01

5.5

Stampede
1949-05-01

4

Foreign Agent
1942-10-09

4.5

Campus Rhythm
1943-11-19

Rim of the Wheel

0

Rim of the Wheel
1951-07-04

6

Smart Alecks
1942-08-07

Red River Valley

7.7

Red River Valley
1941-12-12

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

5

Al Jennings of Oklahoma
1951-01-17

He Plays Gin Rummy

0

He Plays Gin Rummy
1942-01-19

Man from Cheyenne

7.5

Man from Cheyenne
1942-01-16

One Crowded Night

4

One Crowded Night
1940-08-09

0

Glamour Girl
1943-12-13

Penthouse Serenade

0

Penthouse Serenade
1941-05-05

0

I'm a Shy Guy
1943-12-27

Let's Get Away from It All

0

Let's Get Away from It All
1941-05-19

I Know Somebody Who Loves You

0

I Know Somebody Who Loves You
1941-02-16

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

4

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943-01-29

The Merry-Go-Roundup

0

The Merry-Go-Roundup
1941-12-15

Freckles Comes Home

5

Freckles Comes Home
1942-01-02

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

6.3

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950-05-25

6

Uncle Joe
1941-10-18

Where Are Your Children?

4

Where Are Your Children?
1943-11-26

Nearly Eighteen

5

Nearly Eighteen
1943-11-12

City of Missing Girls

4.1

City of Missing Girls
1941-03-27

5

Sunbonnet Sue
1945-10-05

Let's Go Collegiate

5

Let's Go Collegiate
1941-09-12

The Texas Rangers

5.7

The Texas Rangers
1951-06-03

The Dude Goes West

5.8

The Dude Goes West
1948-05-30

Jesse James at Bay

5

Jesse James at Bay
1941-10-17

0

Rhythm Parade
1942-12-11

0

Saddlemates
1941-05-15

Lure of the Islands

5

Lure of the Islands
1942-07-03

0

G.I. Honeymoon
1945-04-06

0

Forever Yours
1945-01-26

Woman of the North Country

4.5

Woman of the North Country
1952-07-23

How to Go Places

0

How to Go Places
1954-01-01

Walk a Crooked Mile

5.8

Walk a Crooked Mile
1948-09-02

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

6

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

The Colgate Comedy Hour

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10

My Little Margie

3

My Little Margie
1952-06-16

The Gale Storm Show

5.5

The Gale Storm Show
1956-09-29

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

5.3

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956-10-05

Robert Montgomery Presents

5.2

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30

Celebrity Playhouse

0

Celebrity Playhouse
1955-09-27

The Ford Television Theatre

7

The Ford Television Theatre
1952-10-02

The NBC Comedy Hour

0

The NBC Comedy Hour
1956-01-08

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

This Is Your Life

6.3

This Is Your Life
1952-10-01

6.266

The Love Boat
1977-09-24

The Bob Hope Show

7

The Bob Hope Show
1950-04-09

6

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

6.266

The Love Boat
1977-09-24

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Wonderful World of Disney

7.6

The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02