Gloria Winters

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Gloria Winters (born November 28, 1932, in Los Angeles, California) is an actress most noted for playing Penny in the 1950s-1960s American television series Sky King.

She was a child actor, having starred as a baby in Virtue, with Carole Lombard. She was in about twenty films and also appeared on stage.

In 1949-1950, she played "Babs Riley" on The Life of Riley, This was the first, less successful, version with Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp. A second version with an entirely different cast appeared several years later with William Bendix in the title role.

Her signature role was that of "Penny", the niece of the title character on the TV show Sky King, which was filmed 1951-52, 1955-56 and 1957-62, as sponsors changed. It ran in syndication after that, but the actors did not receive residuals.

Winters appeared in a number of other television shows including Wild Bill Hickok, The Lone Ranger, The Roy Rogers Show, The Dick Powell Theatre, The Jack Benny Show, The Bob Hope Show, The Gene Autry Show and Death Valley Days.

In 2002 she won a Golden Boot Award as a Sweetheart of the West.

In 1964, she also wrote Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity (Prentice Hall), an etiquette book aimed at young girls, which inspired the band Nada Surf for its 1996 hit-single Popular.