Talia Shire

She is the mother of actors Jason and Robert Schwartzman and aunt to actor Nick Cage. Gale Storm has three Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Radio, Music, and Television. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Godfather, Part II and for the Best Actress in a Leading Role for Rocky. In 1981, she published her autobiography, I Ain’t Down Yet, which described, among other things, her battle with alcoholism. Shire became famous for her roles as the wife of boxer Rocky Balboa in the Rocky movies, and for her role in The Godfather and its sequels. In her career, Gale Storm had several top ten songs, headlined in Las Vegas, and appeared in numerous stage plays. Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola. It was followed by the haunting ballad of lost love, "Dark Moon".

Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress. 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. 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. 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. 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.