I Hate Gale Storm

Well she's always spoken very highly of you, dear.

R1 -- Gale Storm was never supposed to be a teenager in My Little Margie. Her age was never given, but it was understood that she was at least in her early to mid-20s, and she was probably not that much oder than that in real life. Now be nice or I'll tell Mrs. Odetts what you said.

Fun Fact: Gale Storm's real name was Josephine Cottle.

Oh yeah, and I would have fucked Freddie Wilson.

OP, your comments on reasons to hate Gale Storm show you to have the depth of a pug piss puddle.

Her career - with her two series - was over by the time she was in her mid-thirties. You could at least have been accurate in your screechings. Plus you couldn't be bothered to name the song you're thinking about - lazy little twat.

I didn't like her much - limited in her range, too bubbly (the jobs did call for that) - but she hardly was the menace you pretend to care about. Another desperate attempt to get thread traffic?

Her struggle with alcoholism was bravely shared at a time when people kept such things quiet. She was a kind person. She could be attractive in a 1950s way. If anything, she was more like a sit-com version of Mitzi Gaynor.

You ought to have gone after the asshole, Charles Farrell, who played her father. Anti-semitic right-wing closet case.

[quote]lus you couldn't be bothered to name the song you're thinking about - lazy little twat. "I hear you knocking was the song and it was named." You need to learn to read. You've now discredited your entire post. Nice try though.

Dave Edmunds took it to #4 in the US and #1 in the UK. Of course Miss Storm got to #2, which shows you how she had people fooled.

Of all the things worth hating in 2016 America, Gale Storm is what you choose?!

[quote] Then she made a shit song out of the coolest song ever, later covered properly in the 70s (I hear you knocking)

Retard.

Fats Domino properly covered "I hear you knocking. "

At least you're not bitter

Where are all the Gale Harold gang?

I have always admired Gayle Storm because of her long beautiful hair that went even past her rear end! So elegant. But at the same time I don't know if I would want that type of hair (very long) for myself because it might get disgusting. My husband says he doesn't even like to think about it how disgusting hair that long might get. "Ewwwww."

Without constant washing and pampering. Girls, no one has time for that!!! I think you know what I mean.

So actually I don't know if I care for it. But I don't think it is right to be rude to her. She is just a person like the rest of us even if she has extremely long hair.

I lived across the street from Gale Storm's brother...also named Storm...in the 1950's. Her nephew Jimmy was a pal of mine. I never met Gale, but I sure enjoyed watching one of the first TV sets in rural Arizona that she gave them.

I see nothing but talent and a devoted sister here.

Gale Storm as a mystery guest on "What's My Line". At 16:00. It's an awkward segment.

Even after the panel is told she has a weekly series....even after they hear her real voice... no one has a clue as to who she is.

OP = ZaZu P?

THIS is why I come to Data Lounge!

My blood has been boiling about this very topic for 60 long years. Now I've got high blood pressure, hair loss, and all of my personal relationships have been ruined. Thanks, "Gale Storm"!!!

Wasn't she on The Love Boat?

She seemed to have tremors

It's not GAYLE, it's Gale, that's is a play on the last name Storm.

She was a horrible actress who made Ann Sothern, look like Bette Davis in the acting arena.

OP, you bitch, Gale Storm was not "like 43" when she played a teenager. As others do, I assume you mean My Little Margie. She was supposed to be 21 when the series started (June 1952). She had just turned 30 (born (April 1922).

Can you do math? Because, like, you read as if, like, you were a millennial high school drop out.

I was a fan of My little Margie so I bought Gale's autobiography. As for her cover versions, she asked the singers/writers permission and made sure they got their royalties. (She's specific about that point). She said about the actor named Freddy that he always was surrounded by "girlfriends". The poster here are right about Charles Farrell.

Future OP threads:

Little Yellow Boxes: Best generic macaroni & cheese.

Now that we've all had a good laugh, isn't it time we stopped considering cassettes as a serious competitor for the LP?

Buying a new car, is the Hyundai Excel a better deal than the Ford Escort?

Pamela Bellwood, over-the-top?

R18 If you have a garage sale, put Gale's book aside for me.

[quote] The poster here are right about Charles Farrell.

Does Gale talk about him in her book? What's the dirt?

For those of us not 100 years old....who dis woman?

R19 I fully expect to see some of those threads!

Mmmmmm. Charles Farrell. Almost.....I repeat almost....made me go straight.

LOVE her name!

[quote]Charles Farrell, who played her father. Anti-semitic right-wing closet case.

Fuck you! I was the mayor of the gayest city in the country!

I prefer her sister, Tempest.

Gale's Texas twang was most evident in her recordings. She was signed by Randy Wood for his Dot Record Label after his daughter saw her singing on a television variety show.

She never claimed to be a great actress or singer - but achieved a modicum of fame on the strength of her personality.

Gale fought with the producers of both of her television hits for better scripts/stories but didn't have the leverage to prevail. She had three children with her first husband, an insurance salesman. She was widowed in 1986 - and then remarried in 1988. She was widowed again in 1996.

I suppose there are reasons to hate Gale Storm, but I think perhaps OP's emotions are misplaced.

I can understand hating Noreen Corcoran or Elinor Donahue but not Gale Storm.

I saw her hilarious performance as the mother of the bride on a "Murder She Wrote". episode.

Grady is getting married and Gale is his fiancee's mother.

This is one of my favorite episodes and Gale is a hoot.

I remembered her from "My Little Margie" and "Oh Susannah", so when she showed up on screen in MSW, it was delightful to see her again.

And, she did not disappoint.

[quote] She was signed by Randy Wood

Great porn name!

Farrell was one of cinema's all time most beautiful men.

If you see him in any of the late silents or early talkies you know there is nothing like him in TV or movies today.

It must be something in the water.

Very good actor too, not just beefcake.

She was so annoying on "The Lucy Show," all that yelling.

Wow. She's like from my grandparents day. Do you all really remember her? How old are you guys-- 70s?

That's cool that you're on a board like this and all. The things you must have seen

Many years ago there was this typo in TV Guide magazine:

8:00 p.m. Gale Storm Show

8:15 p.m. Gale Storm Shot

I'm sure that warms the cockles of OP's heart, R34.

R33, we 70 yr olds are the ones that invented blogs like this before you were born.

Sweet R36!

Did you have a horse-drawn blog or one of those newfangled electronic ones?

She was never on "The Lucy Show."

[R37] - Darling, back in my day we called them trogs.

Oh noze! You're one of those gays who calls other guys "darling"

Can't deal, sorry.

Loved her commercial for the Raleigh Hills rehab on LA television. I suspect she probably did a lot of dinner theater.

She keecked me een zee vajeenah bone!

This rivals Pat Boone's cover of "Tutti Frutti" as the whitest cover of an R&B song ever.

My earliest childhood memory: Hearing this woman singing "They're Having a Heat Wave" on TV.

I hate Gale Storm too, OP. If we get enough of us together, we can put a stop to her.

That French who-err offering her tangerines!

I wasn't born yesterday. I didn't just fall off the pumpkin truck!

Kate, you WERE the Pumpkin truck!

Gale co-starred in one of my favorite holiday movies, [italic]It Happened on Fifth Avenue.[/italic]

r29, that episode of "Murder, She Wrote" was just on a week or so back. I was embarrassed for Storm. She looked awful and pulled out all her extremely unsubtle "Margie" schtick.

It's 5AM, I've got insomnia, I'm drinking wine to knock me out and laughing so hard reading this, chardonnay just went up my nose.

According to her Wikipedia bio, she campaigned for Barry Goldwater, which makes her a complete NUT. Also, as a child raised on all 50s black and white TV shows, my absolute ignorance of any and all shows starring Gale Storm or My Little Margie means she had no successful impact on my generation.

I remember a time when there were things like TVs, reruns and dvds and even computers where they had things like the internet, Wikipedia and youtube.

And you could find out about people who lived before you were born.

It was pretty amazing.

Gale Storm was virtually my babysitter in the 1950s when I was a pre-schooler and I got parked in front of the TV every morning to watch reruns of My Little Margie (usually followed by reruns of Private Secretary and I Love Lucy).

I adored her! She just seemed so chic. A beautiful young woman with a nifty short hairdo who never had to work for a living, rooming with her hot silver daddy, she also had an adorable boy friend she could lead around on a leash, and lived in a lovely high-rise apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. There was also that adorable old neighbor lady, what was her name....Mrs. Odets? who often seemed to be there to help Margie get out of her scrapes.

I still get chills seeing the opening credits with the two photo portraits of Gale and Charlie and that zingy theme music!

Doe anyone remember her signature "gargle" when she was caught in her misdeeds? I could mimic that back then and used the technique often.

I so looked forward to her comeback series Oh, Susannah! which I was old enough to watch first run on Sunday nights She had the impossibly glamorous role of a "social director" on an ocean liner and was joined by the incomparable silent film character actress Zasu Pitts as her sidekick Elvira ("Nugie") Nugent, the ship's manicurist and another silver daddy in the person of the ship's Captain Huxley (spacing on the actor's name!). The new series had the added bonus of Gale occasionally singing a number in the ship's night club.

She meant a lot to this little gayling in his formative years.

[quote]I so looked forward to her comeback series Oh, Susannah! which I was old enough to watch first run on Sunday nights She had the impossibly glamorous role of a "social director" on an ocean liner

Was she into the nose candy too?

I love hating dead people.

Captain Huxley was Roy Roberts....who also played an oil company exec on the early Beverly Hillbillies episodes among many other things.

Even if you hate Gale Storm you have to admit she had great taste in daddies.

Gale had her signature gargle and Lucy had her signature ewwwww.

R38 R32 hey 38, I think 32 was joking because Gale Gordon was "Mr Mooney" who was always yelling at Lucy.

She killed it in "Brian's Song"

I think Gale is still among the living.

I'm with R53, inasmuch as the first TV show I remember watching, in reruns, was My Little Margie circa 1962, first thing in the morning. A little later on I would watch The Gale Storm Show reruns, but I think I remember that more for Zasu Pitts. Anyway, I have a special place in my heart for the ladies who entertained me as a child, Gale Storm being one of them.

She's dead as a door nail for almost 10 years.

JUNE 27, 2009 TO BE EXACT.

Doh! I think you're right R59, Mea culpa.

Those glasses tho

The funny thing about My Little Margie is that its seemed to go on in morning reruns for years and years, maybe 8 or so initially when I first watched it. But I think there was really only one season, hardly a hit show. Though I guess back then a series might consist of 36 episodes which might be the equivalent of 4 seasons now.

The same with How to Marry a Millionaire.

I love that someone can post something as utterly stupid as "I Hate Gale Storm!" and that nearly 70 of my people can riff on it.

Good job, girls!

What should we riff on?

Britney Spears?

Gale Storm actually lived.

R67 "Gidget" (the ORIGINAL Sally Field Programme) only ran for one season and it's STILL being shown in syndication.

Interesting coincidence with DL fave Diane Keaton -- both she and Gale Storm mention each other in their books.

Keaton writes that she was a huge MY LITTLE MARGIE fan growing up, thay she attended acting school with one of Gale Storm's sons, and was later thrilled to have the opportunity to meet her childhood favorite. Since Keaton writes next to nothing about so many of her later costars, it was suprising she included this anecdote.

Storm writes of her son's brief interest in acting, and how he brought a friend to visit who later turned out to be Diane Keaton.

[quote]...and made sure they got their royalties.

Wow Gale spent her time doing things that would've happened, even if she hadn't wasted her time doing it.

That's like me claiming credit by saying, "And after I checked out at Walmart, I went to the manager to make sure the check out lady was getting paid."

Here's my FAVORITE episode of "My Little Margie".

Beefcake hunk Ed Fury shows up at around 1:40 and shows off his muscles.

I watched My Little Margie reruns as a kid, too. I saw an episode a few years ago and thought it was bizarre. Margie and her father acted more like a jealous couple than a normal father and daughter. And her father's boss spent the night at their apartment and shared a room with her father. But they were in twin beds, since it was the 50's.

Has there ever been a Hurricane Gale?

"Wardrobe for Gale Storm by Junior House of Milwaukee."

Right-- because Milwaukee has always been the fashion capital of the country!

The Junior House building is now apartments for tragic hipsters in Milwaukee.

The first time I'd ever even heard of "My Little Margie" was watching reruns of"Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!" One of my grandmothers was named Margie (short for Marjorie) and I was curious about the name. Around the same time another relative left a stack of 1940's comic books at her summer cottage, with several about a girl named Margie.

The Mary Hartman episode focussed on Mary and her daughter, Heather - who watched repeats of My Little Margie after school. One day Heather comes home with a spliff and Mary finds it. She chastises her and says "My Little Margie would NOT go for this!" And Mary H throws the spiff in the garbage - only to fish it out later and smoke it herself.

[quote] tragic hipsters

Redundant, like "lesbian drama."

[quote]The Junior House building is now apartments for tragic hipsters in Milwaukee.

They should have renamed it the Pfister Hipster House.

I was just reading the Wiki entry on the show provided by r17 and was surprised to see it say that the series was set in NYC.

That isn't correct, is it? I thought for sure I remembered shots of the apartment building Margie and Daddy Vern Albright lived in, surrounded by palm trees. And wasn't Vern often going off for a game of tennis in his whites?

Another surprise was that the series lasted 3 seasons, beginning on CBS as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy, but eventually moving to NBC for its 3rd and final season.

THIS is the best kind of eldergay thread. Passionate loathing (or defending) and endless debate and trivia about a completely obscure actress from the 1940s who has absolutely no relevancy today. Never head of this bitch before today. This is why I come to DataLounge!

From R49:

[quote]... pulled out all her extremely unsubtle "Margie" schtick.

So, whose "schtick" should she have pulled out?

That is what made her appearance so delightfuly.

Michael Richards said that he based his funny Kramer mouth sounds on Gale Storm's gurgle.

OK, so it should be "delightful", not "delightfuly".

For those doubting Miss Storm's fame and popularity, I will admit that you'd have to be at least 60 to know what we're talking about. But in her day she was as well-known as Lena Dunham is today.

But Lena hasn't had to wait 60 years for HER hate threads!

r5 W&W

Educating yourself, grasshopper @ R82, is the first step on the path to utter fabulousness.

R81 I think you are correct.....there were Palm Trees around the apartment building, and Vern and Roberter were always driving down to Palm Springs for the weekend.....

Of course it has been a few years since I've seen the show.....but still.....

Palm trees, eh? Just moments into the Ed Fury episode linked above, we get a long shot of New York Harbor to set the scene. No palm trees. Anywhere.

I've only seen Gale Storm in reruns and rehab commercials, but I like the comparison to Lena Durham. Both are/were pretty awful and second rate, but Durham is the only one who would be bothered by this.

Second rate? It's true that Gale was no Cara Williams, but I would hardly call her second rate!

[quote]Both are/were pretty awful and second rate

Not awful at all, she was a good sitcom actress.

And she was the only young actresses carrying a TV show in the 1950s. Actually 2 shows.

Were there really only middle-aged actresses carrying TV shows in the 1950s?

It's true. Lucy, Joan Davis, Ann Sothern, Eve Arden, Donna Reed in sit-coms and Loretta Young, Arlene Francis, Fay Emerson, Kate Smith, Dinah Shore in other genres, were all at least a generation older than Gale.

It wasn't until Marlo Thomas starred in That Girl that we once again had a young actress starring in a truly successful sit-com.

Gale Storm paved the way for Patty Duke, Marlo Thomas and Sally Field.

Did Gale Storm have stretched out distorted crazy mirror tattoos covering a body that could win the porcine first prize at the Iowa State Fair?

Eh, do some of you consider Elizabeth Montgomery a middle aged actress in the 60s? And don't tell me that was also Durwood's show.

R98 What's your point?

Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched predates Marlo Thomas in That Girl as a young woman headlining a sitcom successfully.

At least, she wasn't called Cappy Badminton!

Well R91 has answered that question for us. Thank you.

There were young heroines of sitcoms in the mid-60s. Didn't The Patty Duke Show predate both Bewitched and That Girl?

Does anyone remember Cynthia Pepper as a 1920s teenager in Margie? Not to be confused with My Little Margie.

Was Spring Byington the oldest actress to ever star in her own sitcom (December Bride)? Was she older than Peggy Wood in I Remember Mama and Gertrude Berg in The Goldbergs?

The early days of television made relatively few stars de novo. Usually they were B-movie queens like Ball, Z-movie queens like Storm, character players like William Bendix, over the hill leading men like Dick Powell or Robert Montgomery, crossovers from radio like Burns & Allen or Jack Benny, or people from vaudeville, burlesque or possibly nightclubs (Milton Berle, Morey Amsterdam, Jerry Lester, Danny Thomas). TV really didn't start making its own stars until the studios began to get into filmed tv as it moved West from NYC. The young male stars of the Warner detective and Western series probably were the first real cohort, and it took a few years before there were shows built around attractive young women, although they'd always been around as supporting players. Margie (the 20s teen show) was a flop but an Oscar for Patty Duke was enough for the networks to take a chance on someone young again.

I remember when Margie had to wait three days to get the results of her AIDS test and she all but practically said ZaSu Pitts, was a tramp so she deserved AIDS not her.

Zasu Pitts was a straight laced McCarthyite who named names. Not a nice person.

Sorry to hear that about Zasu.

She was pretty wonderful.

[quote]Was Spring Byington the oldest actress to ever star in her own sitcom (December Bride)? Was she older than Peggy Wood in I Remember Mama and Gertrude Berg in The Goldbergs?

I don't know if she was the oldest, but she was definitely the dykiest.

The Patty Duke Show began in 1963, Bewitched in 1964 and That Girl in 1966.

Margie with Cynthia Pepper began in 1961 but was a one season wonder.

Of course, before any of these, there was Meet Corliss Archer, a sitcom about an American teenager that starred Lugene Sanders and debuted in 1951 but only ran that summer. It returned briefly with a different cast in 1954

And then in 1959 there was the short-lived Peck's Bad Girl staring Patty (The Bad Seed) McCormack as the title teenager, with Wendell Corey and Marsha Hunt as her parents. I remember that one!

And I hate Buddy Ebsen.

He knows why.

Tappa tappa tappa.

R101: I agree wholeheartedly.

HEE-HEE-HEE, MY TEETH ARE ENORMOUS!

I didn't realize she had passed away until I read this.

Youngest? What about Sally Field in "Gidget"?

I've had her.

Saw a funny episode or two. In one, Dad and Boss were camping up north and Margie wanted to go to Hawaii. They told her if she could survive the camping they'd take her to Hawaii. It was they who struggled, and didn't catch any fish or game. They would come back to camp and Margie is roasting meat all comfy. What they didn't know is she had two hunky Mounties doing everything for her. She won the bet, and in Hawaii you see Margie and her two Mounties lying on the beach drinking.

The difference between all those shows (Patty Duke, etc) and That Girl: Marlo Thomas was a "career girl" living on her own (with regular interference from her father), not a teenager living at home. I think that was a first.

I was a "career girl" on my own before Marlo.

Oh, I loved Gale Storm in "My Little Margie."

Of course, I was five years old at the time.

OP, how do you feel about Rip Torn?

But why, OP? Did she rain on your parade?

Well, she was no Susan Richardson...thank goodness.

The ultra-short '50's hair-do is not attractive.

Gale on "What's My Line"

I grew up loving My Little Margie and Oh Susanna.....I have to admit, when I saw an episode not too long ago, I was shocked by Gale's dyke-iness--not just the haircut.. Any other DL fans struck by this????

Not many could pull off that haircut, but she did.

I saw her in a 1986 porn with John Holmes. She took his cock in her mouth and pussy. No anal. She played a nosy reporter in the movie.

If she were around today, they'd call her Gale "The Perfect" Storm.

True, r118, though MTM always seems to get that credit. But Ann Marie Brewster staked out that territory first. Plus she had kickier outfits!

I hope OP has gotten help since he first posted this. Imagine hating cute as a button Gale Storm. It's preposterous!

Her last name was Marie. She came from Brewster, NY.

I hate that I know that. ^^

I hate that you don't know that there was an episode where she (briefly) changed her name to Marie Brewster, r133.

no, really? the only episode i remember was the one where she had to dress in a chicken costume.

Wtf! She was a porn actress!

She almost got plucked in that episode, r135.

She sure lived to suck and fuck on screen.

I lurve the old 50s sitcoms, eveb though I saw most of them in reruns around 56-62.

The only one which was on MeTV regularly was Our Miss Brooks, and they took it off after they had shown all the seasons. I wish they would bring it and some others back. Right now I am obsessed with Peter Gunn. I know it's not a comedy, but it was created by Blake Edwards and the lead, the gorgeous Craig Stevens, had a very wry sense of humor and each episode has a comic twist to it.

OP, what are your feelings about Gale Gordon? Or Gayle Hunnicutt? Gael Garcia Bernal?

Gale force was a porn queen

SHE WAS SUCH A BITCH. WORSE THAN BEA.

GOOD RIDDANCE.

Any thoughts on April Showers?

Claude Rains?

Stormy Daniels?

Tempest Storm (Gale's first cousin)?

she sucked ass

OP, what's your beef with this dead woman? What she do to you? She seemed like a respectable broad.

Is r9 thinking of Crystal Gayle? I don't recall Miss Storm ever having long hair.

She ruined everything, especially "I Hear You Knocking"

Very controversial figure.