PAULA WINSLOWE

March 23, 1910

Paula Winslowe was born

Winifred Margaret Reyleche in Grafton, North Dakota. She was sometimes billed as Paula Winslow. 

On radio, she played Peg Riley on “The Life of Riley” from 1944 to 1951. On television, the role was played by Rosemary DeCamp (1948), and then Marjorie Reynolds (1953). 

Her first experience in Hollywood was voicing Bambi’s Mother and the Pheasant in Disney’s Bambi.

Winslowe played the role of Mrs. Martha Conklin in “Our Miss Brooks,” starring Eve Arden, on both radio and television. Martha was the wife of the character played by Gale Gordon. From 1952 to 1955, she did nine TV episodes as the character. In 30 episodes over the same time period, the role was also played by Gordon’s real-life wife, Virginia Gordon. The show was filmed at Desilu Studios. 

On “I Love Lucy” she was one of the many passengers on the S.S. Constitution in “Second Honeymoon” (ILL S5;E14).  

That same year she did an episode of Desilu’s “December Bride” titled “Matt’s Movie Career”. 

From 1959 to 1962, she did three episodes of Desilu’s “The Real McCoys” all as different characters. 

From 1953 to 1965, Winslow appeared in sixteen episodes of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett” as various characters.

She was later seen in an episode of “The Lucy Show” titled Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale” (TLS S2;E14) on January 6, 1964. 

She played Mrs. Edwards, a patient that is mistaken for Lucy in an elaborate hospital-wide chase sequence. 

Her final screen role was a September 1966 episodes of NBC’s “Run For Your Life.”

She was married to John Elliott Sutherland and William Nettles Goodwin. She had four children. Winslowe died on March 7, 1996 in Los Angeles at age 85. 

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