Noreen Nash

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Noreen Nash (* 4. April 1924 in Wenatchee , Washington as Nora Belle Jean Roth ) is an American actress , who participated from 1943 to 1962 in more than forty films and television series. She gained fame through her roles in film noirs , westerns and as Lona Lane in the 1956 drama Giganten .

Life

Noreen Nash was born Norabelle Jean Roth in Wenatchee, Washington state in 1924. Her mother worked as a teacher, her father owned a bottling plant operated by Coca-Cola . Nash's career began in 1942 when she was named Apple Blossom Queen in her hometown and thus the advertising figure for a Wenatchee-based apple brand. The talent agent Solly Biano, who worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , discovered her during a subsequent advertising tour in Hollywood . However, no cooperation developed from this. It was only through a talent agent working for Bob Hope that Nash was invited to an audition at Warner Brothers . Her first small film role was in Girl Crazy a year later . Nash's sponsors included actress Paulette Goddard . She got her stage name based on the actor J. Carrol Naish .

Nash received his first major film role in 1945 as Becky Devers in The Man from the South . She starred in several dozen films and television series over the course of her film career, including as a leading actress in several film noirs. She had one of her most famous film appearances apart from these films in 1956 in a small supporting role as film star Lola Lane in Giants at the side of James Dean . She was also featured in a short dream sequence in We're Not Married at All in 1952 , but was not featured in the credits.

In addition to her film career, Noreen Nash was also seen as a guest actress in television series. Among other things, she played the role of Agatha Colton in two episodes of Yancy Derringer in 1958 and 1959 . In 1962, Nash ended her career as an actress. After her film career, she worked as a writer and published the novel Love Fulfilled in 1980 . In 2012, Nash was interviewed in the documentary Awakening World , in which other actors from different generations appeared alongside her.

Nash was from 1942 until his death in 1990 with Dr. Lee Siegel married. The couple had two children. In 2001 she married the actor James Whitmore , with whom she stayed together until his death in 2009. Nash is a member of the Democratic Party and supported its candidate Adlai Ewing Stevenson junior in the 1952 presidential election .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1943: Girl Crazy
  • 1944: Meet the People
  • 1944: Maisie Goes to Reno
  • 1945: The Man from the South ( The Southerner )
  • 1946: With brush and sword ( Monsieur Beaucaire )
  • 1947: The Devil on Wheels
  • 1947: The Big Fix
  • 1947: Pauline, stop kissing ( The Perils of Pauline )
  • 1947: The Red Devil ( The Red Stallion )
  • 1948: The Tender Years
  • 1948: Adventures in Sicily ( Adventures of Casanova )
  • 1948: Assigned to Danger
  • 1948: The Checkered Coat
  • 1950: Charlie's Haunt
  • 1950: Storm over Wyoming
  • 1952: Aladdin and His Lamp
  • 1952: Road Agent
  • 1952: We're Not Married ( We're Not Married! )
  • 1953: Phantom from Space
  • 1953: The Body Beautiful
  • 1954: The Abbott and Costello Show (TV series, episode)
  • 1956 giant ( Giants )
  • 1958: The hero with the mask ( The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold )
  • 1958/1959: Yancy Derringer (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1959: 77 Sunset Strip (TV series, one episode)
  • 1960: Unshaven and far from home ( Wake Me When It's Over )

literature

  • Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers: Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . McFarland, Jefferson 2015, ISBN 978-1-4766-0796-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noreen Nash. In: glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers: Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . Jefferson 2016, p. 189.
personal data
SURNAME Nash, Noreen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Norabelle Jean (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wenatchee , Washington , United States