Nancy Westbrook Profile

Nancy Westbrook

	(Nanon Mathicakis)
24 October 32	is born in Gary, Indiana at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital to Georgia Mathicakis and Lonnie Glover
?	is adopted by her stepfather Grover Westbrook
23 July 36	is severely injured as a result of an automobile crash
?	graduates from Froebel High School
?	declines a scholarship to New York University so she could pursue acting
?	marries
53	is signed by RKO Pictures, where she will appear in Son of Sinbad (1955)
13 August 53	is featured in Jet, where it's written that "Hollywood observers claim that some actresses are more suited for three-dimensional movies than others, which may mean a big break soon for curvaceous Nancy Westbrook of Los Angeles"
March 54	is profiled by The Hollywood Reporter in an article titled Nancy Westbrook Picked
1 April 54	is featured in Jet
15 April 54	is featured in Jet
?	is asked by Salvador Dali to pose for a portrait
May 56	is featured in Gala
8 May 57	according to columnist Jane Allison, she has reportedly appeared in 14 movies
21 May 57	columnist Danton Walker reports that "Nancy Westbrook, one of the Ziegfeld Follies beauties, being screen-tested by Universal-International."
2 July 57	columnist Walter Winchell reports that "industrialist Fred Grey, who sends nightly orchids to showgirl Nancy Westbrook, broke the monotony by dispatching a pink mink stole"
June 58	is crowned June Swimsuit Queen
5 December 60	columnist Earl Wilson reports that "beautiful Nancy Westbrook, McClelland model, owns the figure in those Butterfield 8 ads, transposed onto Liz Taylor's face."
May 62	as Creta Margos, she stars in Strangers in the City (1962)
22 July 95	as Nancy Sheryle Westbrook, dies in New York City, New York

Sources: Daily Record, San Francisco Examiner, The Miami Herald, Daily News, The Indianapolis Star, The Times (Munster, Indiana), Ancestry.com, Joyce Crenshaw, Glamour: Models, Mannequins, and Pinups of the 1950s by Samuel Claesson
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