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| name = Christine Norden | image = Christine_Norden.jpg | caption = | birthname = Mary Lydia Thornton | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|12|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sunderland, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|09|21|1924|12|28|df=yes}} | death_place = Isleworth, Middlesex, England | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1939–1988 | spouse = Norman Cole (1944-1947; divorced); 1 child Jack Clayton (1947-1953; divorced) Mitchell Dodge (1953-1955; divorced) Herbert Hecht (1956-1961; divorced) George Heselden (1980-1988; her death) | children = Michael Cole}} Christine Norden (28 December 1924 – 21 September 1988) was a British actress. CareerBorn Mary Lydia Thornton in Mowbray Terrace, Sunderland, she was the daughter of a bus driver.[1] Her childhood home was in Chester Road, Sunderland, and she was educated at Chester Road Primary School and Havelock School.[2] Norden gained experience singing and dancing while performing in wartime ENSA concerts and variety shows as a teenager. One claim to fame was that she was the first entertainer to land on Normandy beaches after D-Day. At the age of 20 she was "discovered" in a cinema queue and given a screen test by Sir Alexander Korda. Her screen debut was as a nightclub singer in the 1947 film Night Beat. In an interview with the Sunderland Echo on 3 June 1952 she said: "Please don't refer to me as the girl who was discovered in a cinema queue. I'm so tired of that tag. You see, nobody believes it, and it aggravates me so much because it happens to be true." Her best-known appearances were in An Ideal Husband, Mine Own Executioner and the 1949 film Saints and Sinners. She won a British National Film Award in 1949 for that performance.[3] 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. She went on to become an American citizen in 1960, starring on Broadway in the musical Tenderloin at around the same time. She also caused a sensation in 1967, when she became the first actress to appear topless on Broadway, in the comedy Scuba Duba. The actress returned to London in the 1970s, to work on stage, screen, and television, but retained an apartment in New York - where she held several exhibitions of her paintings in Manhattan. FamilyNorden married five times, the first was to bandleader Norman Cole, by whom she had a son, Michael. Her other husbands included British film director Jack Clayton and musician Herbert Hecht. Her 1977 biography, The Champagne Days Are Over, also detailed other romantic links. DeathShe died in Middlesex, aged 63, from pneumonia following heart bypass surgery. She was survived by her son, Michael Cole, and her widower, George Heselden, a retired mathematician who used to work for the Ministry of Defence. Actress [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593486/bio June Mitchell] (1933–2009) was Norden's sister. In 1988, following her death, part of the planet Venus was named after her as a tribute to her reputation of Britain's first postwar sex symbol.[4] Filmography
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References1. ^Biography {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927173506/http://www.northeasthistory.co.uk/the_north_east/history/wwtwo/dday/070604a.html |date=2007-09-27 }} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Norden, Christine}}2. ^Sunderland Echo, January 7, 1977, page 2 3. ^Sunderland Echo, January 7, 1977, page 2 4. ^Tribute to Christine Norden, georgeformby.co.uk; accessed 17 July 2015. 8 : 1924 births|1988 deaths|English film actresses|English stage actresses|Deaths from pneumonia|Actresses from London|People from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|20th-century English actresses |
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