87 huh?

Well this was totally unexpected!

"87 huh?

Well this was totally unexpected!"

Still too soon. Storm was a class act of a kind you don't find today. She kept up with fans decades after her TV career ended.

A 'class act'....may she RIP...!!!

Gale Storm will be missed, but the fact that she lived to 87 underscores the fact that women live much longer than men and proves that the health care system discriminates against men Barry should send his civil rights storm troopers to investigate.

Keith Richards isn't dead yet.

so young. it's jut not fair.

Don't worry. With the Obama Universal Health Care proposal, she'd be denied life extending care because of budgetary contraints and "better use" for the money required, and either sent to a hospice or offered immediate euthanasia.

Ergo, she wouldn't have used resources for as long as she did.

And think of it, now she'll no longer draw Social Security.

It's a lefty's paradise.

She led an interesting life. I don't exactly remember the show, but I remember that I thought she was much younger than she was. She played what seemed to be a teenager, and I was shocked to find out she was thirty when she first started the show.

She wasn't the most famous or the most glamorous, but she gained more attention and fame than most, and outlived most. I'd say that makes her a winner.

She deserves more in passing than snide remarks from people with nowhere near the talent, brains, and guts that she displayed in her life.

Keith Richards is dead; he just doesn't know it yet.

She led an interesting life. I don't exactly remember the show, but I remember that I thought she was much younger than she was. She played what seemed to be a teenager, and I was shocked to find out she was thirty when she first started the show.

She wasn't the most famous or the most glamorous, but she gained more attention and fame than most, and outlived most. I'd say that makes her a winner.

She deserves more in passing than snide remarks from people with nowhere near the talent, brains, and guts that she displayed in her life.

#9 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2009-06-30 12:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

A decent, reasoned, thoughtful post from BB.

The end must be near.

Yes, BB, it's meant as a compliment.

Let's do a death notice every day. It's so cool.

Let's do a death notice every day. It's so cool.

#12 | Posted by Sniper at 2009-06-30 08:56AM Flag: FF

Is there anyone here who saw an episode of My Little Margie? Gale Storm seems to have outlived her fame.

Is there anyone here who saw an episode of My Little Margie? Gale Storm seems to have outlived her fame.

#14 | Posted by rcade

Yes. And The Gale Storm Show too.

Good 50's programming. Although, for some reason they didn't last as long in the syndicated rerun circuit as some of the others like Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver.

Is there anyone here who saw an episode of My Little Margie?

I remember seeing it as a kid in the very early '60s, though they were obviously re-runs. My mother liked to watch them, I think, because her name was Margery.

We also watched Topper, Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Our Miss Brooks -- all those old sitcoms.

My sitcom past extends only as far as Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched and My Three Sons. Uncle Charlie scared the shit out of me.

Uncle Charlie scared the shit out of me.

#17 | Posted by rcade

So did you know before there was Uncle Charlie, William Frawley from I Love Lucy played "Bub", Fred MacMurray's father-in-law?

weren't there two uncle charlies? The old grizzled guy and Fred Mertz from I love lucy?

answered in #18

I remember when Lucy was pregnant with Little Ricky.

I remember when Lucy was pregnant with Little Ricky.

I wonder how Lucy got pregnant since she and Ricky always slept in separate beds?

Writers

I wonder how Lucy got pregnant since she and Ricky always slept in separate beds?

#22 | Posted by goatman

You know those hot Latinos - they can be very sneaky.

We need another death notice today. Time is running short.

We need another death notice today.

Maybe if someone gave da bOoB a gun and took away his Paxil . . .

"Is there anyone here who saw an episode of My Little Margie? Gale Storm seems to have outlived her fame."

rcade:

My Little Margie was syndicated through about 1970, but it did not wear well, because it was not what most people think of as a sitcom today. It was filmed more like a movie (but much more cheaply), than like the three-camera, live-audience technique used for I Love Lucy. That made it a lot more static and less fun to watch than Lucy. In the days when local stations looked for bargain-basement daytime programming, it was reasonably acceptable, but in the '70s, you stopped seeing it. And Storm's performing style, which depended on a white-bread winsomeness, didn't hold up as well as Lucille Ball's physical comedy. Still, My Little Margie ran four seasons, and Storm went right from that into The Gale Storm Show which ran for six. In 1950s terms, she was a fairly important TV attraction, not as big as Ball, but no lightweight, either.

I have some My Little Margie eps on DVD, and they're pretty much curios today.

"She led an interesting life."

Betray your youth! Obviously, you never saw her act.