Georgia Ellis

Born Georgia Blanche Hawkins on March 12, 1917, in Ventura, California. Source: Wikipedia: Georgia Ellis

She was on Gunsmoke from its first broadcast, "Billy the Kid" on April 26, 1952, but not yet as Kitty: she played Francie Richards, a former girlfriend of Matt Dillon. Source: Wikipedia: Gunsmoke (radio series)

Miss Kitty first turned up two weeks later, in the May 10, 1952 episode "Jaliscoe"; the radio series ran until June 18, 1961. Source: Wikipedia: Gunsmoke (radio series)

She played Kitty Russell, Matt Dillon's saloon-girl confidant, for nine years. Source: Jim Ramsburg, Gold Time Radio: Gunsmoke's First Family

From sometime in 1959, Gunsmoke billed her as Georgia Hawkins rather than Georgia Ellis. Source: Wikipedia: Gunsmoke (radio series)

She was in the cast of Escape's Christmas story "The Cave" on CBS, December 24, 1950, with John Dehner and Antony Ellis. Source: RadioGOLDINdex: Escape, "The Cave"

She starred in Escape's "I Saw Myself Running," broadcast February 22, 1953 as the series' 171st episode and written by her husband, Antony Ellis. Source: Tangent Online: Escape, "I Saw Myself Running"

Her other radio work included the cast of Rogers of the Gazette and appearances on CBS Radio Workshop. On screen she debuted in The Light of Western Stars (1940) and later took small parts on TV's Dragnet. Source: Wikipedia: Georgia Ellis

She died on March 30, 1988, in Woodland Hills, California, aged 71. Source: Wikipedia: Georgia Ellis