Gale Storm
Actor
Born April 5, 1922 in Bloomington, Texas, USA
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".
Filmography
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Girl in TV Skit About Door Frame (uncredited)
Murder, She Wrote
Maisie Mayberry
The Love Boat
Gale Storm
Burke's Law
Honey Feather Leeps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
The Ford Television Theatre
Hope Foster
This Is Your Life
Self
Woman of the North Country
Cathy Nordlund
My Little Margie
Margie Albright
The Texas Rangers
Helen Fenton
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Margo St. Claire
Between Midnight and Dawn
Katharine 'Kate' Mallory
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Underworld Story
Catherine Harris
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
Julie Martin
The Bob Hope Show
Self
The Kid from Texas
Irene Kain
What's My Line?
Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
Abandoned
Paula Considine
Stampede
Connie Dawson
Walk a Crooked Mile
Voice on Tape Recorder
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Dude Goes West
Liza Crockett
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Trudy O'Connor
Swing Parade of 1946
Carol Lawrence
Sunbonnet Sue
Sue Casey
G.I. Honeymoon
Ann Gordon
Forever Yours
Joan Randall
Where Are Your Children?
Judy Wilson
Campus Rhythm
Joan Abbott, aka Susie Smith
Nearly Eighteen
Jane Stanton
Revenge of the Zombies
Jennifer Rand
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Susan Fleming
Rhythm Parade
Sally Benson
Smart Alecks
Ruth Stevens
Lure of the Islands
Maui
He Plays Gin Rummy
Singer
Man from Cheyenne
Judy Evans
Freckles Comes Home
Jane Potter
Red River Valley
Kay Sutherland
Uncle Joe
Clare Day
Jesse James at Bay
Jane Fillmore, 'St. Louis Journal' Reporter
Let's Go Collegiate
Midge Lawrence
Gambling Daughters
Lillian Harding
Saddlemates
Susan Langley
Penthouse Serenade
City of Missing Girls
Mary Phillips
One Crowded Night
Annie Mathews
Tom Brown's School Days
Effie