Gale Storm

Personal Info

Birthday

April 5, 1922

Day of Death

2009-06-27

(87 years old)

Place of Birth

Bloomington, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Gail Storm

Josephine Owaissa Cottle

Gale Storm

Biography

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.

Known For

Murder, She Wrote

The Love Boat

Burke's Law

The Ford Television Theatre

My Little Margie

The Gale Storm Show

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

The Texas Rangers

Filmography

1994
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
as Girl in TV Skit About Door Frame (uncredited)
1954
How to Go Places
as Herself
1952
Woman of the North Country
as Cathy Nordlund
1951
Rim of the Wheel
as Virginia Sutton
The Texas Rangers
as Helen Fenton
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Margo St. Claire
1950
Between Midnight and Dawn
as Katharine 'Kate' Mallory
The Underworld Story
as Catherine Harris
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
as Julie Martin
The Kid from Texas
as Irene Kain
1949
Abandoned
as Paula Considine
Stampede
as Connie Dawson
1948
Walk a Crooked Mile
as Voice on Tape Recorder
The Dude Goes West
as Liza Crockett
1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Trudy O'Connor
1946
Swing Parade of 1946
as Carol Lawrence
1945
Sunbonnet Sue
as Sue Casey
G.I. Honeymoon
as Ann Gordon
Forever Yours
as Joan Randall
1943
Where Are Your Children?
as Judy Wilson
Campus Rhythm
as Joan Abbott, aka Susie Smith
Nearly Eighteen
as Jane Stanton
Revenge of the Zombies
as Jennifer Rand
Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
as Susan Fleming
1942
Rhythm Parade
as Sally Benson
Foreign Agent
as Mitzi Mayo
Smart Alecks
as Ruth Stevens
Lure of the Islands
as Maui
He Plays Gin Rummy
as Singer
Man from Cheyenne
as Judy Evans
Freckles Comes Home
as Jane Potter
1941
Red River Valley
as Kay Sutherland
Uncle Joe
as Clare Day
Jesse James at Bay
as Jane Fillmore, 'St. Louis Journal' Reporter
Let's Go Collegiate
as Midge Lawrence
Gambling Daughters
as Lillian Harding
Saddlemates
as Susan Langley
City of Missing Girls
as Mary Phillips
1940
One Crowded Night
as Annie Mathews
Tom Brown's School Days
as Effie