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Noreen Nash(1924-2023)

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Noreen Nash
LOVE SEX GOD is a 2 part documentary. 

Part 1:  What fuels an AWAKENING WORLD?  That's what filmmaker Sebastian Siegel sets out to uncover by exploring questions at the core of human fulfillment from "what is love?" to "what is the purpose of life?".  Through woven and scored interviews with acclaimed artists, best selling authors, globally recognized leaders and extraordinary personalities, AWAKENING WORLD inspires interpersonal connection and advocates a methodology to perpetuate widespread human joy.

Part 2: SPIRIT OF EVOLUTION is the 2nd installment of the documentary, LOVE SEX GOD. This film delves into Religions, Spirituality and God.  Through further interviews and research we explore the gifts of religion, the limitations of its dogma, the many beliefs that make up our ideas of God, how our ideas have changed and influenced our lives, and the emerging path of evolutionary spirituality. SPIRIT OF EVOLUTION examines perennial keys of depth fulfillment.
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Brunette, blue-eyed Noreen Nash was born Norabelle Jean Roth in Wenatchee, Washington. Her father was Albert Roth, owner of a Coca Cola bottling plant, her mother Gail was a teacher. At the age of eighteen, Noreen was crowned 'Apple Blossom Queen' in her home town and sent to Washington to promote apples on radio. Though this attracted the attention of a Warner Brothers talent scout, Noreen spurned her first chance to be screen tested and instead completed her secondary education. Before long, she was noticed again, this time at the iconic Brown Derby restaurant, by Bob Hope's agent Louis Schurr. Signed under a stock contract by M-G-M, she first appeared on screen billed as Noreen Roth.

In October 1942, Noreen met Dr. Lee Edward Siegel, a physician, sixteen years her senior, who held the sobriquet of 'doctor to the stars' on the 20th Century Fox lot. Siegel was also a close friend of studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck. Following a whirlwind romance, she married Siegel in Las Vegas just six weeks later. The union proved to be a happy one, enduring until his death 47 years later.

Noreen's tenure at M-G-M, meanwhile, turned out to be rather desultory, consisting of nothing more than ornamental, non-speaking, bit parts. Leaving for greener pastures in 1944, her first break in pictures came courtesy of French director Jean Renoir who cast her as Becky in Etelän mies (1945), a rural drama about a struggling family of cotton farmers in 1940s Texas. It won Renoir his only Oscar nomination. Noreen had by now adopted her new stage moniker 'Nash', acting on the suggestion of her agent.

For much of the succeeding decade and a half, Noreen toiled in what she later described as 'forgettable' films at Poverty Row studios like PRC (Producer's releasing Corporation) and Eagle Lion. She commanded leads in juvenile melodrama (The Devil on Wheels (1947)), assorted crime pictures (The Big Fix (1947), Assigned to Danger (1948), The Checkered Coat (1948)), and a slew of westerns directed by the veteran Lesley Selander (Punainen ori (1947), Storm Over Wyoming (1950), Road Agent (1952)). However, none of these were career enhancers, nor was Phantom from Space (1953), a ludicrous low budget science fiction effort, much of it filmed at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. While it may have sparked Noreen's interest in astronomy, it is fair to say that even "Chubby Rain" (see Koukkusormi (1999)) would have been a preferable entertainment...

The most prestigious motion picture Noreen appeared in was Jättiläinen (1956), though she later recollected not her small part as the actress Lona Lane, but only the friction that existed on the set between the director George Stevens and James Dean. From 1952 until her retirement from acting ten years later, Noreen also featured in a fair number of early television episodes, including Dragnet (1951), Yksityisetsivät (1958) and Yancy Derringer (1958). On the advice of her son, she decided to quit show biz in 1962 and went back to study, enrolling at UCLA and graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor's Degree in history. In 1980, she published her first novel, 'By Love Fulfilled', set in the 16th century and following the life of a physician at the court of Catherine de Medici. This was followed by 'Agnès Sorel, Mistress of Beauty' in 2013 and an autobiographical work of recollections, 'Titans of the Muses: When Henry Miller Met Jean Renoir' in 2015.

In 2001, Noreen married the actor James Whitmore. At the time of her death on June 6 2023 at the venerable age of 99, she was known as Noreen Siegel Whitmore. She had two sons from her first marriage: Lee Siegel Jr, an author and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Robert James Siegel, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.
BornApril 4, 1924
DiedJune 6, 2023(99)
BornApril 4, 1924
DiedJune 6, 2023(99)
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Tim Holt, Richard Martin, and Noreen Nash in Road Agent (1952)
Joy Durden, Linda Hutchings, Don Knotts, Noreen Nash, and Dick Shawn in Riemuhotelli (1960)
Tim Holt, Richard Martin, and Noreen Nash in Road Agent (1952)
Noreen Nash
Noreen Nash in Phantom from Space (1953)
Turhan Bey, Lucille Bremer, Arturo de Córdova, and Noreen Nash in Casanovan seikkailut (1948)
Rudolph Anders, Harry Landers, Noreen Nash, Sandy Sanders, and Dick Sands in Phantom from Space (1953)
Mike Ragan, Tim Holt, Richard Martin, and Noreen Nash in Storm Over Wyoming (1950)
Tim Holt, Noreen Nash, Dorothy Patrick, and Robert J. Wilke in Road Agent (1952)
Tim Holt, Richard Martin, and Noreen Nash in Road Agent (1952)
Noreen Nash and Robert Paige in Punainen ori (1947)
Noreen Nash and Robert Paige in Punainen ori (1947)

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Noreen Nash in Phantom from Space (1953)
Phantom from Space
4.1
  • Barbara Randall
  • 1953
James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson in Jättiläinen (1956)
Jättiläinen
7.6
  • Lona Lane
  • 1956
Robert Arthur, James Cardwell, Sue England, Darryl Hickman, Terry Moore, and Noreen Nash in The Devil on Wheels (1947)
The Devil on Wheels
5.3
  • Sue Tanner
  • 1947
Noreen Nash and Gene Raymond in Assigned to Danger (1948)
Assigned to Danger
5.7
  • Bonnie Powers
  • 1948

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Actress

  • Dick Powell esittää (1961)
    Dick Powell esittää
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Woman #1
    • 1962
  • Ernie Kovacs, Margo Moore, Dick Shawn, and Jack Warden in Riemuhotelli (1960)
    Riemuhotelli
    6.3
    • Marge Brubaker
    • 1960
  • Ronald Reagan in Se parhaiten nauraa... (1953)
    Se parhaiten nauraa...
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Carol
    • 1960
  • X Brands and Jock Mahoney in Yancy Derringer (1958)
    Yancy Derringer
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Agatha Colton
    • 1958–1959
  • Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in Yksityisetsivät (1958)
    Yksityisetsivät
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Lisa Reynolds
    • 1959
  • The Lineup (1954)
    The Lineup
    8.0
    TV Series
    • 1956–1958
  • Clayton Moore, Lisa Montell, and Jay Silverheels in Yksinäinen Ratsastaja ja kadonnut kultakaupunki (1958)
    Yksinäinen Ratsastaja ja kadonnut kultakaupunki
    6.4
    • Frances Henderson
    • 1958
  • Rod Cameron in State Trooper (1956)
    State Trooper
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Cynthia Hayes
    • 1957
  • Hal Baylor, Hans Conried, and Chuck Hicks in Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Mary Gerski
    • 1955–1957
  • James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson in Jättiläinen (1956)
    Jättiläinen
    7.6
    • Lona Lane
    • 1956
  • The Charles Farrell Show (1956)
    The Charles Farrell Show
    7.2
    TV Series
    • Doris Mayfield
    • 1956
  • Frances Bavier, William Bishop, and Michael O'Shea in It's a Great Life (1954)
    It's a Great Life
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Thelma Adams
    • 1956
  • Dragnet (1951)
    Dragnet
    7.5
    TV Series
    • 1956
  • Charles Farrell and Gale Storm in My Little Margie (1952)
    My Little Margie
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Countess Louise DuBois
    • 1955
  • Aitiopaikka (1952)
    Aitiopaikka
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Kathy
    • Leonora
    • Salesgirl
    • 1952–1955
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  • Born
    • April 4, 1924
    • Wenatchee, Washington, USA
  • Died
    • June 6, 2023
    • Sherman Oaks, California, USA
  • Spouses
      James WhitmoreAugust 7, 2001 - February 5, 2009 (his death)
  • Other works
    Novel: "By Love Fulfilled".
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    • 1 Interview
    • 1 Pictorial

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    After winning a beauty contest in her home state of Washington, she was invited to take a screen test in Hollywood, playing a number of decorative roles in late 1940s and 1950s films.

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