Gale Storm was another native Texas actress that we lost (Houston: credit, high school)

[gy2020]

Gale Storm
Birth Date: April 5, 1922 / Age: 87
Birth Place: McDade, Texas, USA
Also Credited as: Gail Storm
Biography: Josephine Owaissa Cottle (born April 5, 1922), better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress/singer. Born in Bloomington, Texas, her father, William Walter Cottle, passed away when she was 13 months old and her mother, Minnie Corina Cottle, struggled to raise five children alone. Minnie took in sewing, then opened a millinery shop in McDade, Texas, which failed, and then moved to Houston. Josephine learned to be an accomplished skater and dancer, and in Junior High and High School she performed in the drama club. When she was a 17-year-old senior in high school, two of her teachers urged her to enter the Gateway to Hollywood Contest held at the CBS Radio Studio in Hollywood, California where first prize was a one-year contract with a movie studio. She won and was given the name "Gale Storm," while her performing partner, Lee Bonnell from South Bend, Indiana (whom she later married) became Terry Belmont. [/SIZE][/left]
Classic TV & Movie Hits - Gale Storm

[doctorjef]

The Gale Storm Show was some of the first tv I can recall watching, I guess at about age 4 in Preston Hollow, Dallas. I'm slightly too young to remember her first show, My Little Margie. I saw the obit in our local paper today -- quite sad to learn of her passing, though I'd not heard or thought of her, truthfully, for years.

[love roses]

I know where McDade is. It's not far from me here, near Bastrop. Sad, sad week

[Canine*Castle]

I loved, "My Little Margie."

[catman]

Me too. There were so many deaths recently (including one that is being relentlessly exploited by the media) that Gale Storm's passing was hardly noticed. She was quite a TV star in her day.