GALE STORM IT HAPPENED ON 5TH MOVIE

When it became popular with audiences, the show moved to its own slot on NBC that fall. He costars include Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Eddie Albert, Audie Murphy, George Montgomery and cowboy star Roy Rogers.Īs her film options dwindled, she segued into television with the CBS comedy My Little Margie, which debuted in 1952 as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy. Renamed Gale Storm, she made low-budget movies for RKO, Monogram and Universal. The contest also selected a male winner-a man named Lee Bonnell, who later became her husband.

GALE STORM IT HAPPENED ON 5TH MOVIE

She made the finals, which were held in Los Angeles, where she charmed the radio audience and was awarded a movie contract. In 1940, as a high school student, she entered a talent contest for a radio show called Gateway to Hollywood. Her mother supported five children by taking in sewing. After The Gale Storm Show ended in 1960, she continued to perform as a singer and as an occasional guest performer on television.īorn Josephine Owaissa Cottle on April 5, 1922, in Bloomington, Texas, Storm was only 13 months old when her father died. She came to television in 1952, with My Little Margie, after a successful career in movies and radio. Storm, who had been in failing health in recent years, died Saturday, June 27, at a convalescent hospital in Danville, California. Actress Gale Storm, who became one of the biggest stars in the early days of television through her work on the comedy series My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show, has died at age 87.

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