Gail Storm

Gail Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars, has died at age 87. The actress died Saturday at a convalescent hospital in Danville, said her son, Peter Bonnell. He says she died of natural causes. Storm was a Texas high schooler named Josephine Owaissa Cottle when she won a talent contest for a radio show called "Gateway to Hollywood" on New Year's Day 1940.

Soon she was in Los Angeles, making movies with Jackie Cooper, Eddie Albert and Audie Murphy. In 1952 she landed the starring role in "My Little Margie," which quickly became an audience favorite and ran until 1955. Ed McMahon was the first one to go. Farrah Fawcett died the morning after, and then Michael Jackson passed away, shockingly. Today even, it was not only Billy Mays who left this earth. Actress Gail Storm, from the 1950s shows My Little Margie and The Gail Storm Show, died of natural causes at 87 years old.

The death of Billy Mays after a tough landing in Tampa, and a bump on the head, was certainly unexpected. The cause of his death is still undetermined officially, but last night he spoke to a Fox reporter and said, "All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head." Sadly, however, he did not wake up this morning.