Ethel Owen

Ethel Owen was an American actress with a lengthy career on stage as well as radio and television. In her early sixties, during the mid1950s, she had a memorable recurring TV role on The Honeymooners, playing Mrs. Gibson, Ralph Kramdens sharptongued, interfering motherinlaw.

While raising a family, Ethel Waite continued to maintain her career and adopted Ethel Owen, the shortened version of her married surname, as a new stage name. She continued to perform in summer stock, and Armilda Jane, born in Milwaukee in 1923, began as a child actress in her mothers plays. Well known in summer stock by her tenth birthday, she was even offered a film contract at a time when the success of Shirley Temples first starring films in 1934 caused studios to conduct searches for other talented performing youngsters, but her mother decided against the move. In succeeding years, she became a teenage performer in musical comedy and, changing her stage name to Pamela Britton, had costarring roles on Broadway and in a few films, including two classics, the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh, playing Frank Sinatras Brooklynaccented girlfriend, and the 1950 noir, D.O.A., eventually moving to TV sitcoms as the scatterbrained title character in 1957s Blondie and, from 1963 to 1966, as the i

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