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JULY 6, 2009
Josephine Cottle

      It seems sad to me somehow that the death of The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, June 26th, overshadowed the passing of some other celebrities this past week. Perhaps lesser known, but stars in their own right...Farrah Fawcett, Karl Malden, and one, who started life as Josephine Cottle. Cottle, better known to many as Gale Storm, died June 27th at the age of 87 (obituary at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/arts/television/30storm.html). A Queen of Comedy she shared this title with the likes of Joan Davis and Lucille Ball.

As a kid I laughed and watched her antics in the popular tv comedy My Little Margie. In the series, which aired from 1952 to 1956, Ms. Storm played the part of Margie Albright, the 21 year old daughter of Vernon Albright (Charles Farrell), an investment counselor of the firm Honeywell & Todd. Vernon, a widower and Margie resided on 5th Avenue, New York. Margie's main purpose in life was to help her father out, usually resulting in quite the opposite outcome and always with good, clean fun and humor. The show has been compared to other sitcoms of that era, I Married Joan, Life With Elizabeth, all inspired by the success of I Love Lucy. She went on to play in another series comedy, The Gale Storm Show-Oh Susanna, where she played Susanna Pomeroy, the social director of the ocean liner S.S. Ocean Queen.
 
I loved the musical theme of the show, Bows and Strings In Teasing, composed by Alexander Lazlo. That and the invariable ending when Albright would nod his head and sigh, "Well, That's my little Margie!".
 
You can find many of the old episodes on the net and can read more about Ms. Storm and sitcom series in these books:

Castleman, Harry, and Walter J. Podrazik. Harry and Walter's Favorite Shows: A Fact-Filled Opinionated Guide to the Best and Worst on TV. New York: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Mitz, Rich. The Great TV Sitcom Book. New York: Perigee, 1983.

Storm, Gale. I Ain't Down Yet. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1981.

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