Storm Gale

American actress and wholesome leading lady of minor films in the 40s. She received her start in Hollywood after winning a high school contest and soared into stardom on the TV series of the 50s as "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show." During the same period she recorded several records, six of which made the top ten between 1955 and 1957. She made a long and happy marriage to former actor Lee Bonnel, they had four children together and he died in 1986. Storm married Paul Masterson on 23 April 1988, he died of cancer in May 1996. During the 1970s she battled alcoholism and wrote about it in her 1981 memoir, "I Aint Down Yet." She fell December 1996 and required hip replacement surgery. Through all of her life in and out of Hollywood, the challenges of her personal life, she relied on a strong religious faith. She died on 27 June 2009 in Danville, California, aged 87. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less