Gale Storm

Gale Storm has three Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Radio, Music, and Television.
. In 1981, she published her autobiography, I Ain’t Down Yet, which described, among other things, her battle with alcoholism. The Knack (and how to get it) was filmed in the Southam Street area of Notting Hill. In her career, Gale Storm had several top ten songs, headlined in Las Vegas, and appeared in numerous stage plays. She was an icon of 1960s Britain, and was popularised again in the 1980s by Morrissey. It was followed by the haunting ballad of lost love, "Dark Moon". She had memorable performances in The Leather Boys (1963), The Knack...And How to Get It (1965) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Her first record, "I Hear You Knockin' " (a cover version of a rhythm and blues hit by Smiley Lewis, in turn based on the old Buddy Bolden standard "The Bucket's Got A Hole In It") sold over a million copies. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey in 1961, the groundbreaking movie of the British realist tradition. From 1952 to 1955, My Little Margie, originally a summer replacement for I Love Lucy, ran for 126 episodes and was immediately followed by The Gale Storm Show (aka Oh! Susanna), that ran for 143 episodes between 1956 and 1960. She was born on 14 March 1940 in Liverpool, and started her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. After winning, she went on to become an American icon of the 1950s, performing in more than thirty-five motion pictures and starring in two highly successful television shows. Rita Tushingham is an English actress. 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.

In Junior High and High School she performed in the drama club. Born in Bloomington, Texas, her father passed away before she was a year old and her mother struggled to raise five children alone. Josephine Owaissa Cottle (born April 5, 1922), better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress/singer.