Kathie Browne

Kathie Browne (September 19, 1929 – April 8, 2003) was an American stage, film and television actress. She played a showgirl in an episode of the television show Banacek. Early life She was born Jacqueline Sue Browne on September 19, 1929, in Humansville, Missouri, to Winn Roscoe Browne and Erma Mae Wood. Her family later moved to San Luis Obispo, California, then when she turned ten, to Los Angeles, where she went to city schools. She received her first social security card at age 13 during April 1943. After high school, she studied drama at Los Angeles City College (LACC), where she won a best acting award. Tustin Playbox May Rose Borum, a drama teacher at LACC, founded a community theatre called the Tustin Playbox in June 1952. As "Cathy Browne" (her first stage name; she does not appear to have used "Kathie Browne" until March 1959), Browne was active in this theater for many years, both as performer and co-producer with her first husband, Sherwood Price.