Pamela Britton

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Pamela Britton (March 19 1923, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - June 17 1974, Arlington Heights, Illinois) was an actress best known for appearing as "Lorelei Brown" in the television series My Favorite Martian (1963-1966). She also appeared in the film noir classic D.O.A. (1950). <p>Born Armilda Jane Owen, her mother was Ethel Waite Owen (1893-1997), a prominent stage, radio, and early television actress. Britton's father, Raymond G. Owen, was a doctor who died when the actress was twenty years old. She had two sisters, Virginia, an actress under contract to RKO Radio Pictures and Mary, a social worker. <p>Pamela attended State Teacher's Normal School and Holy Angels Academy in her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, taking leads in her school class plays. By the age of nine she was doing summer stock and Hollywood came calling at ten though her mother rejected the advances, saying she wanted her to be an actress, not a child star. Pamela started making the rounds at fifteen using the name Gloria...