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Ethel Owen
Ethel Owen (March 30, 1893—February 16, 1997) was an American actress with a lengthy career on stage as well as radio and television. In her early sixties, during the mid-1950s, she had a memorable recurring TV role on ''The Honeymooners'', playing Mrs. Gibson, Ralph Kramden's sharp-tongued, interfering mother-in-law.
==Early years, marriage and three daughters==
Born in Chicago, Ethel Waite started performing around the time of her fourteenth birthday in 1907. Although she is credited with appearances on a number of vaudeville circuits, her primary venue was the legitimate stage, mostly as a member of regional touring theatre groups. Following marriage, in her early twenties, to a Wisconsin physician, Raymond G. Owens, she had three daughters, and while the eldest, Mary, would move to Texas, upon deciding on a career as a social worker in Fort Worth, the younger girls, Virginia and Armilda Jane, followed their mother into show business as actresses.
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 mother's 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 Temple's 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 co-starring roles on Broadway and in a few films, including two classics, the 1945 musical ''Anchors Aweigh'', playing Frank Sinatra's Brooklyn-accented girlfriend, and the 1950 noir, ''D.O.A.'', eventually moving to TV sitcoms as the scatterbrained title character in 1957's ''Blondie'' and, from 1963 to 1966, as the inquisitive landlady, Mrs. Brown, in ''My Favorite Martian''.〔("Pamela Britton, 'Blondie' Star, Actress in Musicals, Is Dead; Appeared With Sinatra". ''The New York Times'' (June 19, 1974) )〕
The middle daughter, Virginia, proceeded in her mother's footsteps by retaining her own given name and likewise adopting "Owen" as a stage surname. Put under contract with RKO Pictures, she was mentioned in Louella Parsons' November 26, 1946 column, regarding "an interesting announcement" soon to be made concerning "William Hornstein, a Los Angeles business executive",〔("Hollywood---By Louella O Parsons" (''The Milwaukee Sentinel'', November 25, 1946) )〕 but no further details were revealed until over three years later, when another story described Virginia's 1950 marriage to University of North Carolina graduate William A. Loock, Jr.〔("Virginia Owen Speaks Vows at Bronxville, N.Y." (''The Milwaukee Journal'', March 5, 1950) )〕 During her brief 1946–48 sojourn into film acting at RKO, the sole on-screen credit she received was for playing dance-hall girl Ginger Kelly, fifth-billed second female lead in Zane Grey-based ''Thunder Mountain'', the first of 29 entries in Tim Holt's 1947–52 B-western series.
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