Josephine Owaissa Cottle (natural April 5, 1922), better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress/singer. Natural within Bloomington, Texas, her father, William Walter Cottle, passed away when she was Xiii months old & her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, struggled to raise 5 youngsters alone. Minnie took around sewing, so opened the millinery shop inside McDade, Texas, which failed, and then moved to Houston. Josephine learned to become an accomplished skater & dancer, & inside Junior High & High School she performed in the drama club. While she was a 17-season-old senior within high school, deuce of her teachers urged her to enter a Gateway to Hollywood Contest held at the CBS Radio Studio in Hollywood, California where first prize was the 1-annual locate the moving picture studio. She won & was given a title "Gale Storm," when her performing partner, Lee Bonnell from either South Bend, Indiana (whom she later married) became Terry Belmont.

Fallowing winning, she went withinside to be an Our contries icon of the Fifties, performing in additional than thirty-5 motion pictures & starring in 2 extremely successful television program.

From either 1952 to 1955, My Little Margie, originally a summertime replacement for I Love Lucy, ran for 126 episodes and was immediately followed by The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh! Susanna), that run 143 episodes between 1956 & 1960.

Within Gallatin, Tennessee, the 10-year-old girl, Linda Wood, was watching Gale Storm in a Sunday nighttime television comedy show hosted by Gordon MacRae in 1954, singing one of the popular songs of the day. Linda's father, hearing a singing, asked Linda world health organization was singing & was told it was Gale Storm from either The Little Margie. Linda's father was Randy Wood, president of Dot Records, and he liked a healthy therefore swell that he known as to sign Gale Storm prior to a prevent of the tv show. Her number 1 record, "I Hear You Knockin' " (the cover version of a rhythm and blues hit by Smiley Lewis, in turn according to a old Buddy Bolden standard "The Bucket's Got A Hole In It") sold above the million copies. It was followed inside 1957 per haunting ballad of misplaced love, "Dark Moon" that went to There is no. Quadruplet on the Billboard Hot 100. Inside her career, Gale Storm experienced many top decade songs, headlined around Las Vegas, and appeared within many stage plays.

Around 1981, she published her autobiography, ''I Own't Down However'', which described, among more items, her battle by having alcoholism.

Gale Storm has terzetto Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Radio, Music, and Television.

Recordings

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