Noreen Nash Profile

Noreen Nash

	(Norabelle Jean Roth)
4 April 24	is born in Wenatchee, Washington. Her father owns a Coca-Cola bottling plant; her mother is a teacher.
36	on a cruise to Honolulu, she meets actor Charles Boyer
42	is "Apple Blossom Queen" in Wenatchee
42	is spotted by Warner Brothers talent scout Solly Biano at age 17, while promoting Washington apples in Hollywood
?	is accepted at Stanford University at the time Bob Hope’s agent, Louis Schurr, sees her at the Brown Derby and signs her
October 42	meets and starts a whirlwind romance with Dr. Lee Siegel, the medical doctor at 20th Century-Fox
November 42	marries Siegel six weeks after meeting him, in Las Vegas, shortly before he is drafted
c. 43	models with young Marilyn Monroe
	becomes close friends on the MGM lot with Kay Williams (Spreckles), who will later marry Clark Gable
45	changes her professional name while filming The Southerner
c. 45	her first son is born
47	shoots The Adventures of Casanova at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City
Early 50s	her family and the Zanucks go to Palm Springs every weekend
80	writes By Love Fulfilled, a historical novel
c. 89	becomes the widow of Siegel after 47 years of marriage
7 August 01	marries the ex of actress Audra Lindley, actor James Whitmore, at Whitmore’s home in Malibu, California
6 June 23	as Noreen Siegel Whitemore, she dies at age 99 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles

Sources: Giseld Dervishi, Screen Sirens Scream! by Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell, Ladies of the Western by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers
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