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Gale Storm dead.
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An immensely talented singer and actress. She has four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Radio, Music, Television and Motion Pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Storm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Storm
Storm starred in "My Little Margie" and "Oh, Susanna"(aka "The Gale Storm Show").
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gale-storm29-2009jun29,0,7502329.story
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gale-storm29-2009jun29,0,7502329.story
I liked "My Little Margie". Good show in it's day.
cyberdad said:
Not only that but now what's Freddie gonna do? How do you think Mrs O'Detts feels?
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radioman148 said:
it is sad to hear this. as i remember she was a Lucille Ball (wannabe) and in her day she was very cute, and had a couple of hit records too. but her career didn't last much beyond the 1950's, at the time she made "Margie" she was in her early 30's.
short career.
cspotrun said:
"My Little Margie" was a summer replacement for I Love Lucy in 52. From what I read by 53 it was popular enough in it's own right that Gale Storm was voted 2nd right behind Lucille Ball for top female in a TV show. Unfortunately her run was way too short.
How is the crew of the S.S. Ocean Queen taking it?
No one has mentioned her other series "Oh, Susanna,"
a/k/a "The Gale Storm Show" (CBS, 1956-59, ABC, 1959-60).
She played the cruise director on a luxury liner and ZaSu
Pitts her friend and cohort in her schemes (shades of Ethel
Mertz).
Ironically, her first television appearance in more than 20
years (after her battle with alcoholism) was on "The Love
Boat" in the early '80s. It was one of the highest ratings--
if not the highest rating--that show ever got; people tuned
in out of curiosity, to see how she looked after all those years
(or maybe just to revisit an old friend).
One of her hit songs, "Dark Moon," was a favorite of mine
when I was a kid. Unfortunately for the mentality of teenagers,
she was 35 when she recorded it (1957), making her over the
hill in teen minds. She did, however, continue singing after her
television-series days were over. And I never missed either "My
Little Margie" or "The Gale Storm Show."
A lot of us remember you, Gale.
No one has mentioned her other series "Oh, Susanna,"
a/k/a "The Gale Storm Show" (CBS, 1956-59, ABC, 1959-60).
She played the cruise director on a luxury liner and ZaSu
Pitts her friend and cohort in her schemes (shades of Ethel
Mertz).
Ironically, her first television appearance in more than 20
years (after her battle with alcoholism) was on "The Love
Boat" in the early '80s. It was one of the highest ratings--
if not the highest rating--that show ever got; people tuned
in out of curiosity, to see how she looked after all those years
(or maybe just to revisit an old friend).
One of her hit songs, "Dark Moon," was a favorite of mine
when I was a kid. Unfortunately for the mentality of teenagers,
she was 35 when she recorded it (1957), making her over the
hill in teen minds. She did, however, continue singing after her
television-series days were over. And I never missed either "My
Little Margie" or "The Gale Storm Show."
A lot of us remember you, Gale.
bpatrick said:
Her version of "I Hear You Knockin" was good too.
Wish I had known she appeared on the Love Boat. I missed that one.
LynnW said:
I like them both. Different strokes for different folks.
cyberdad said:
I thought Charles Farrell was from Massachusetts? I know he ended up spending many years in Palm Springs, Ca.
I thought Honeywell & Todd ended up with TARP money ;D
Farrell definitely seemed to have an Eastern accent....so you may be correct. I had heard he was from Chicago. Maybe he lived and worked in Chicago for a while or there was some other connection.
I'm more comfortable in assuming your correct about Honeywell & Todd getting bailed out with government money. ;D
I'm more comfortable in assuming your correct about Honeywell & Todd getting bailed out with government money. ;D
cyberdad said:
Farrell was originally from Massachusetts, where his father had been a talent agent....guy was a definite "Boston brahmin" type....sounded, looked, and acted it! In later viewings, I always had the impression that to do Vern Albright he didn't have to act- that was just who he was, especially when he addressed Gale Storm's character as "Maahgee".
To this day, I can't think of that show without the cute little theme running through my brain.
R.I.P. Josephine Owaissa Cottle... say hello to Mrs. Odets for me...
cyberdad said:
Farrell definitely had that New England accent.
I can still hear him calling "Mahgee"
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