Gloria Winters

Gloria Winters
Winters as Penny King (1952)
Born	November 28, 1931 Los Angeles, California, USA
Died	August 14, 2010(2010-08-14) (aged 78) Vista, San Diego County, California
Occupation	Actress, author
Spouse(s)	Dean Vernon

Gloria Winters (November 28, 1931,Los Angeles, California – August 14, 2010, Vista in San Diego County, California) was an actress most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny King, in the 1950s-1960s American television series Sky King.

Gloria Winters grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, but later moved to Hollywood with her family. A child actor, she made her debut, she said in a mid-2000s radio interview, "when I was about five," with a small role in a Shirley Temple movie. "I came running out to Shirley Temple, and she was supposed to help me, like I had just gone to the little girls' room." (One source says she had appeared as a baby in the 1932 Carole Lombard film Virtue.)

Winters went on to a Pete Smith movie short, in a scene of her coming down a slide to the grass, where a black Scottie dog licked her face. She also appeared in an Our Gang feature. She performed onstage, and took tap dance classes, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s was first cast in Western films such as Driftwood (1947) and El Paso (1949), and in such television series as The Lone Ranger and The Range Rider. Her roughly 20 films, mostly Westerns, include The Lawless (1950) and Gambling House (1950).