[3] She performed onstage, and took tap dance classes, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s was first cast in Western films such as Driftwood (1947) and El Paso (1949), and in such television series as The Lone Ranger, The Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show.

Winters played the blonde, baby-faced, perky but earnest, and helpful teenage niece, Penny King, who lived with her uncle at the Flying Crown Ranch and often became involved in his varied adventures.

[citation needed] During the run of Sky King, Winters and Kirby Grant performed as a song-and-dance team as headliners on the state fair circuit.

[3] Winters married Dean Stevens Vernon, a sound engineer on Sky King,[1] and gave up acting following a 1960 appearance on Hugh O'Brian's ABC western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

In the interim, Winters had guest roles in series, including the anthology Death Valley Days, The Jack Benny Program, Richard Diamond, Private Detective; Racket Squad;[2] The Gene Autry Show, in which she made her singing debut in the 1951 episode "Warning!

On Jim Davis' Stories of the Century anthology series, Winters played the teenaged bandit Little Britches, opposite James Best as the outlaw Dave Ridley, with whom she is smitten.