Actress Gale Storm Dies at 87

Someone--the response to my post is not listed here so I guess it was a private response--wanted to compare "stars" like Thelma Hayek and others to the "lady" of this discussion. I must admit when I first read the response I was amazed that whoever sent the reply wanted so much to defame being a "lady" as if it were something bad.

Well, we fought and won the female revolution long ago and there is no need to defend it with diatribes comparing what a "lady" was in the 50s to the females of today in the media. Yes, in the 50s women had a "place" in society and up to that time they were very comfortable with that position until their men started dying overseas for wars not our own and they had to provide for their families. Until then women struggled to be in various professions taking on many personal and professional indignities in order to set the stage for what women enjoy today.

This Lady of Television deserves more than being put down because she perservered in a time when women were often not paid for their talent, dressed up to meet the demands of a public new to an industry (TV) that was just searching for the right "hook" to separate the masses from their money and change the culture of a country.
She survived, she made history so that today's "mall stars" and "one hit wonders" (like many of the "actors" that were included in the responders name dropping) can enjoy the fruits of their labors. Show some respect.

I was a little girl watching "MY little Margie" in re-runs on daytime TV. She was in the line of what we now call "stars" like Hannah Montana and all those "gossip" stars of Disney.

TV, which call itself the information technology of the future NOW, is a wasteland is that why in Isreal the trully devote are not allowed to watch or use search engines, they know that this stuff is ruinous to societies.

This was a true lady of television. Yes, a star like all the rest of that time but unlike then people were more interested in their own lives, communities and nation than we are now so the lives of "stars" were truly a pasttime not like an extention of ourselves like the media today would have us think.

Both cream and scum float to the top. The saddest of realities when "talent" is accessed and how it can be marketed to make more money.
I gave up on prime time TV eons ago. When I "channel hop" just to see what has happened over the years, it is so depressing. Can any show survive without "tits and ass," incessant violence, and "canned" laughter?
I feel for youth being raised in a Muslim culture, I feel for youth being raise in ours. There has to be some middle ground?
Some call it "Home Schooling" That, too, is very sad.

And yet, today, we have actresses of a much lesser caliber. Tara Reid? Lindsay Lohan? Angelina Jolie? Actresses that don't have lesbian realtionships, trip over themselves during drug induced states, drink themselves into oblivion, and have illegitimate children by men who aren't married to them. (Yes, there is still objective "right" and "wrong.") Gale Storm's passing represents the passing of a different era, when actresses received more respect- they acted much more ladylike than they do today.