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Gale Storm‌

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Female

Birthday

calendar1922-04-05

Popularity

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Gale Storm

Bloomington, Texas, USA

Gale Storm

Bloomington, Texas, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1922-04-05

Popularity

star5.4

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?

Movie Credits

Abandoned

Abandoned‌
star6.2
calendar 1949

Revenge of the Zombies

Revenge of the Zombies‌
star5.2
calendar 1943

The Underworld Story

The Underworld Story‌
star6.1
calendar 1950

Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days‌
star7.2
calendar 1940

Between Midnight and Dawn

Between Midnight and Dawn‌
star5.8
calendar 1950

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946‌
star4.2
calendar 1946

The Kid from Texas

The Kid from Texas‌
star5.3
calendar 1950

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue‌
star7.1
calendar 1947

Gambling Daughters

Gambling Daughters‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

Stampede

Stampede‌
star5.5
calendar 1949

Foreign Agent

Foreign Agent‌
star4.0
calendar 1942

Campus Rhythm

Campus Rhythm‌
star4.5
calendar 1943

Rim of the Wheel

Rim of the Wheel‌
star0.0
calendar 1951

Smart Alecks

Smart Alecks‌
star6.0
calendar 1942

Red River Valley

Red River Valley‌
star7.7
calendar 1941

Al Jennings of Oklahoma

Al Jennings of Oklahoma‌
star5.0
calendar 1951

He Plays Gin Rummy

He Plays Gin Rummy‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Man from Cheyenne

Man from Cheyenne‌
star7.5
calendar 1942

One Crowded Night

One Crowded Night‌
star4.0
calendar 1940

Glamour Girl

Glamour Girl‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

Penthouse Serenade

Penthouse Serenade‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

Let's Get Away from It All

Let's Get Away from It All‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

I'm a Shy Guy

I'm a Shy Guy‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

I Know Somebody Who Loves You

I Know Somebody Who Loves You‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher‌
star4.0
calendar 1943

The Merry-Go-Roundup

The Merry-Go-Roundup‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

Freckles Comes Home

Freckles Comes Home‌
star5.0
calendar 1942

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek‌
star6.3
calendar 1950

Uncle Joe

Uncle Joe‌
star6.0
calendar 1941

Where Are Your Children?

Where Are Your Children?‌
star4.0
calendar 1943

Nearly Eighteen

Nearly Eighteen‌
star5.0
calendar 1943

City of Missing Girls

City of Missing Girls‌
star4.1
calendar 1941

Sunbonnet Sue

Sunbonnet Sue‌
star5.0
calendar 1945

Let's Go Collegiate

Let's Go Collegiate‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

The Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers‌
star5.7
calendar 1951

The Dude Goes West

The Dude Goes West‌
star5.8
calendar 1948

Jesse James at Bay

Jesse James at Bay‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

Rhythm Parade

Rhythm Parade‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Saddlemates

Saddlemates‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

Lure of the Islands

Lure of the Islands‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Forever Yours

Forever Yours‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

G.I. Honeymoon

G.I. Honeymoon‌
star0.0
calendar 1945

Woman of the North Country

Woman of the North Country‌
star4.5
calendar 1952

How to Go Places

How to Go Places‌
star0.0
calendar 1954

Walk a Crooked Mile

Walk a Crooked Mile‌
star5.7
calendar 1948

Tv Credits

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote‌
star7.6
calendar 1984

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Colgate Comedy Hour‌
star7.0
calendar 1950

My Little Margie

My Little Margie‌
star3.0
calendar 1952

The Gale Storm Show

The Gale Storm Show‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show‌
star4.0
calendar 1956

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents‌
star4.3
calendar 1950

Celebrity Playhouse

Celebrity Playhouse‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

The NBC Comedy Hour

The NBC Comedy Hour‌
star0.0
calendar 1956

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show‌
star4.8
calendar 1961

This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life‌
star6.4
calendar 1952

The Love Boat

The Love Boat‌
star6.3
calendar 1977

The Bob Hope Show

The Bob Hope Show‌
star7.0
calendar 1950

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show‌
star6.5
calendar 1948

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

The Love Boat

The Love Boat‌
star6.3
calendar 1977

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Wonderful World of Disney‌
star7.6
calendar 1954

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950