1. Pamela Britton's mother was Ethel Waite, a stage, radio, and early television actress who played Ralph Kramden's mother-in-law in the Honeymooners TV show of the 1950s.
11 Facts About Pamela Britton
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Pamela Britton had two sisters: Virginia, who was an actress for RKO Radio Pictures; and Mary, a social worker.
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Pamela Britton's mother rejected the advances, saying she wanted her to be an actress, not a child star.
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Pamela Britton found that as soon as people knew who her mother was, they expected her to be as accomplished an actress.
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Pamela Britton used a pseudonym to audition, choosing Pamela and Britton.
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Courtesy of MGM, Pamela Britton helped entertain the troops in November 1944 at Camp Roberts, California, starring in The New Moon along with Joseph Sullivan.
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Pamela Britton went on hiatus to play the comic role of Meg Brockie in the original 1947 production of Brigadoon on Broadway.
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Pamela Britton made her third film of the year in the Red Skelton vehicle, Watch the Birdie.
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Pamela Britton portrayed the title role of the TV version of the Chic Young newspaper comic strip Blondie, opposite Arthur Lake as her husband, Dagwood Bumstead.
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Pamela Britton reprised her role in Brigadoon in 1954, appeared in Annie Get Your Gun at the Santa Barbara Bowl, and then returned to Broadway to replace an ailing Janis Paige in Guys and Dolls.
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Pamela Britton was married on April 8,1943, in Texas, to Captain Arthur Steel after they met on a blind date arranged by one of her sisters.