BIOGRAPHY OF STARS
PAMELA BRITTON— "TIIE DIMPLES" Scrcen newcomer Pamela Britton. wlio makes her screen debut in .he M.-G.-M. technicolour musical, •Anchors Aweigh," wcnt to Hoilywood from the stage. Born ana raised in the American Middic West, she made her stage debut at Ihe age of twelve and her radio debut one year later* She was discovered for the screen while appearing in the hit stage production. "Oklahoma." Although she sang and danced on the stag'\ she plays a straight comedy role in "Anchors Aweigh." She is married lo Captain Arthur Steele, at prescnt on duty in Hawaii. Dimpled, blue-eycd, golden-hair-ed — she'll win your heart. V/hen her fan-mail arrives, such a cryptic address as "The Dimplcs" finds her. So that's another of those titles which keeps cropping up in Hollywood. Add it to "The Look, | "The Voice," "The Legs," and "The Face." After appearing in the hit stage production, "Oklahoma," every | critic who mentioned Pamela Britton (and all of them did) mentioned the dimples, too. And no wonder! She uses no make-up co accentuate them, but to the onlooker they are very visible. It was as "the blonde with the. dimples" that she first attracted the attention of Hollywood.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1946, Page 7
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