Gale Storm
Gale Storm ( born: Josephine Owaissa Cottle, born April 5, 1922 in Bloomington, Victoria County, Texas, † June 27, 2009 in Danville, California ) was an American actress and singer.
The first years
The father of Gale, William Walter Cottle already died when she was 13 months old. Her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, then had to try to raise her five children alone. She dabbled in sewing, then opened a millinery salon near McDade, but had no success. Then the family moved to Houston.
Josephine was an accomplished skate rider and dancer. In junior high and high school, she attended acting group. When she was 17 years old and the last year in high school, they drove two of her teachers at, the " Gateway to Hollywood Contest", organized by the CBS Radio station in Hollywood to participate, because the first price a one year contract with a film studio had. Finally she won and was now called to " Gale Storm", while her performance partner Lee Bonnell from South Bend, whom she later married, Terry was Belmond.
Career advancement
After winning the competition, she became an American icon of the 50s. They played a total of nearly 50 films and finished second in two highly successful TV shows the starring role.
From 1952 to 1955 she played very successfully in My Little Margie, which ran 126 episodes long. Immediately after the end of the series was followed by The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh! Susanna ), which ran for a total of 143 episodes from 1956 to 1960. Both shows were later repeated several times on American television.
In 1954, Randy Wood, president of Dot Records, attentively on Gale Storm, when his ten year old daughter saw a Sunday night comedy show in which sang this song. Randy Wood liked the song so much that he took it quickly under contract (supposedly he called during the show with her on ).
Their first record, " I Hear You Knocking " (a cover of a rhythm and blues hit song by Smiley Lewis, whose song is in turn based on the old Buddy Bolden 's classic " The Bucket 's Got A Hole In It " ) has sold over a million copies. In 1957 a ballad about lost love, Dark Moon, the 100 debuted at number four on the Billboard Hot. In her career, Gale Storm had several top 10 songs and performed in numerous stage plays.
In 1981, she published her autobiography, " I Is not Down Yet", which describes among other things also their struggle against alcoholism. Gale Storm has four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their achievements for radio, music, television and the cinema. She was twice married and leaves behind four children.
Singles
Awards
- Four stars on the Walk of Fame