10 Facts About Gloria Winters

Gloria 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.

Gloria Winters performed onstage, and took tap dance classes, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s was first cast in Western films such as Driftwood and El Paso, and in such television series as The Lone Ranger, The Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show.

Gloria Winters portrayed daughter Babs Riley in the first season of the NBC sitcom The Life of Riley, starring Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp.

Gloria Winters played the blonde, baby-faced, perky but earnest, and helpful teenage niece, Penny King, who lived with her uncle at the Flying Crown Ranch and often became involved in his varied adventures.

Gloria Winters played the role in seventy-two episodes from 1952 to 1959.

Gloria Winters recalled a State Fair of Texas in Dallas in which the two signed autographs.

Gloria Winters married Dean Stevens Vernon, a sound engineer on Sky King, and gave up acting following a 1960 appearance on Hugh O'Brian's ABC western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

On Jim Davis' Stories of the Century anthology series, Gloria Winters played the teenaged bandit Little Britches, opposite James Best as the outlaw Dave Ridley, with whom she is smitten.

Gloria Winters died in 2001, and Winters succumbed nine years later of complications from pneumonia at her home.

Gloria Winters was survived by her sister-in-law Phyllis DeCinces and was interred alongside her husband at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.