- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 5, 1922
- Place of Birth
- Bloomington, Texas, USA
- Died
- June 27, 2009
Gale Storm
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 To…
Filmography
movieAbbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994 · Girl in TV Skit About Door Frame (uncredited)
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Maisie Mayberry
tvThe Love Boat
1977 · Gale Storm, Rose Kennycott
tvBurke's Law
1963 · Honey Feather Leeps, Dr. Nonnie Harper
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
movieThe All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Self
tvThe Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
The Gale Storm Show
tvThe Gale Storm Show
1956 · Susanna Pomeroy
The NBC Comedy Hour
tvThe NBC Comedy Hour
1956
Celebrity Playhouse
tvCelebrity Playhouse
1955
tvThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Self
tvThe Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Hope Foster
tvThis Is Your Life
1952 · Self
movieWoman of the North Country
1952 · Cathy Nordlund
tvMy Little Margie
1952 · Margie Albright
Rim of the Wheel
movieRim of the Wheel
1951 · Virginia Sutton
movieThe Texas Rangers
1951 · Helen Fenton
movieAl Jennings of Oklahoma
1951 · Margo St. Claire
movieBetween Midnight and Dawn
1950 · Katharine 'Kate' Mallory
tvThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
movieThe Underworld Story
1950 · Catherine Harris
movieCurtain Call at Cactus Creek
1950 · Julie Martin
tvThe Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self
movieThe Kid from Texas
1950 · Irene Kain
tvWhat's My Line?
1950 · Self
tvRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
movieAbandoned
1949 · Paula Considine
movieStampede
1949 · Connie Dawson
movieWalk a Crooked Mile
1948 · Voice on Tape Recorder
tvThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
movieThe Dude Goes West
1948 · Liza Crockett
movieIt Happened on Fifth Avenue
1947 · Trudy O'Connor
movieSwing Parade of 1946
1946 · Carol Lawrence
movieSunbonnet Sue
1945 · Sue Casey
movieG.I. Honeymoon
1945 · Ann Gordon
movieForever Yours
1945 · Joan Randall
I'm a Shy Guy
movieI'm a Shy Guy
1943
Glamour Girl
movieGlamour Girl
1943
movieWhere Are Your Children?
1943 · Judy Wilson
movieCampus Rhythm
1943 · Joan Abbott, aka Susie Smith
movieNearly Eighteen
1943 · Jane Stanton
movieRevenge of the Zombies
1943 · Jennifer Rand
movieCosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
1943 · Susan Fleming
movieRhythm Parade
1942 · Sally Benson
Foreign Agent
movieForeign Agent
1942 · Mitzi Mayo
movieSmart Alecks
1942 · Ruth Stevens
movieLure of the Islands
1942 · Maui
movieHe Plays Gin Rummy
1942 · Singer
movieMan from Cheyenne
1942 · Judy Evans
movieFreckles Comes Home
1942 · Jane Potter
The Merry-Go-Roundup
movieThe Merry-Go-Roundup
1941
movieRed River Valley
1941 · Kay Sutherland
movieUncle Joe
1941 · Clare Day
movieJesse James at Bay
1941 · Jane Fillmore, 'St. Louis Journal' Reporter
movieLet's Go Collegiate
1941 · Midge Lawrence
movieGambling Daughters
1941 · Lillian Harding
Let's Get Away from It All
movieLet's Get Away from It All
1941
movieSaddlemates
1941 · Susan Langley
moviePenthouse Serenade
1941
movieCity of Missing Girls
1941 · Mary Phillips
I Know Somebody Who Loves You
movieI Know Somebody Who Loves You
1941
movieOne Crowded Night
1940 · Annie Mathews
movieTom Brown's School Days
1940 · Effie