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Christine Norden
Actress
Female
Born
Dec 28, 1924
Hometown
England
Died
Sep 21, 1988
Death Place
Isleworth
Other Names
Mary Lydia Thornton
Christine Norden was a British actress.
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on December 28, 1924.
TWENTIES
1947
22 Years Old
Her screen debut was as a nightclub singer in the 1947 film Night Beat.
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Her best-known appearances were in An Ideal Husband, Mine Own Executioner and the 1949 film Saints and Sinners.
1952
27 Years Old
After appearing in ten films within five years, Norden left Britain for America in 1952, where she settled in New York and married her third husband, US Air Force sergeant Mitchell Dodge.
THIRTIES
1960
35 Years Old
She went on to become an American citizen in 1960, starring on Broadway in the musical Tenderloin at around the same time.
FORTIES
1967
42 Years Old
She also caused a sensation in 1967, when she became the first actress to appear topless on Broadway, in the comedy Scuba Duba.
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FIFTIES
1977
52 Years Old
Norden married five times, the first to bandleader Norman Cole, by whom she had a son, Michael. Her other husbands included British film director Jack Clayton and musician Herbert Hect. Her 1977 biography, The Champagne Days Are Over, also detailed other romantic links.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1988
64 Years Old
Following her death, part of the planet Venus was named after her in 1988, as a tribute to her reputation of Britain's first postwar sex symbol.
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