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- Actress
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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 The Southerner (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 (The Red Stallion (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 Bowfinger (1999)) would have been a preferable entertainment...
The most prestigious motion picture Noreen appeared in was Giant (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), 77 Sunset Strip (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.- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Born in the small apple-growing town of Wenatchee, Washington, the future TV-movie actress is the daughter of George and Dorothy Brown Neidhart. Her family went south to Palm Springs, California, in the 1940s to seek warmer winters, and Susan divided those years between Washington and California. In her school years, she excelled at dance, art and drama, and enjoyed most the chance to observe up-close the stars who were regularly seen along Palm Canyon Drive. She resolved to make the entertainment arts her career, and threw herself into the local theater scene.
After her graduation from Palm Springs High School, vacationing Susan was approached by a Hollywood agent on a Waikiki beach, suggesting that if she were interested in pursuing a career in motion pictures, he would like to represent her. A few months later, she signed with his theatrical agency and, at the same time, became involved with the Rudy Solari Actors' Theatre in Hollywood. Her first film role was in a half-hour television special with Steve Allen and, within a few months, she was landing other TV roles. In 1963, she was chosen as a "Hollywood Deb Star". Her first co-starring movie role was in Columbia's Ride the Wild Surf (1964), a romantic drama in the new genre of beach movies; she played island girl "Lili Kalua" opposite Tab Hunter. She was then put under contract and appeared in a number of films at American International Pictures; she and her husband, AIP president James H. Nicholson, had a son, Jim, who is now (2000s) a composer living in the New York area. During that period, she was also under contract to MGM Records and did several singles, a few of which she toured the country promoting.
After Nicholson's death, she became very involved with the Variety Club of Southern California, which helped her raise (in her late husband's name) enough money to create the pediatric heart wing at UCLA Medical Center. The James H. Nicholson Pediatric Chair is the result of that endeavor. She also took over the production company he left behind, completing the production of two of his 20th Century-Fox pictures, The Legend of Hell House (1973) and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974), both highly successful. During the 1970s and 1980s, she remained a "silent partner" owner of about 40 Nicholson-produced AIP motion pictures of the 1950s, later acquiring direct ownership of ten of these films, including her personal favorite I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). She returned briefly to the recording studio in 1981 and performed for Dore Records the Guy Hemric-Jerry Styner-written country-western song "Is This a Disco or a Honky Tonk?", which made it to the charts. Soon after this success, she became involved in the figure skating world, joining a precision ice team at the Town Center ice rink in Palm Desert. She took part in several amateur skating competitions, including Adult Nationals in Las Vegas, placing first in an entertainment category.- Music Department
- Director
- Actress
Elizabeth Zharoff was born on 19 March 1986 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. She is a director and actress, known for English National Opera: La Traviata (2015), What Lies Below (2020) and The Charismatic Voice (2020). She has been married to Kirk Cameron McCune since 29 February 2020.- Art Department
- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
Geefwee Boedoe was born on 10 September 1965 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He is known for Let's Pollute (2009), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and Spies in Disguise (2019).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actress
Cherie Hankal was born on 6 March 1960 in East Wenatchee, Washington, USA. She is an assistant director and actress, known for Seinfeld (1989), It's Like, You Know... (1999) and I'm with Her (2003).- Monica Gayle was born on 3 March 1960 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Chris De Garmo was born on 14 June 1963 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Supernatural (2005) and Queensrÿche: I Don't Believe in Love, Version 1 (1988). He has been married to Kimberly De Garmo since July 1990. They have two children.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Taylor Mock was born in the small town of Cashmere, Washington. He moved to San Diego and studied at MiraCosta College. While there, he took an acting class as an elective, and within the first week Taylor fell in love with it. After his time in San Diego, Taylor made the move back to his hometown in Cashmere Washington; working manual labor jobs to save enough money to move to Los Angeles so he could continue his pursuit in acting.- Additional Crew
- Transportation Department
- Writer
Born in the apple capital of the world, Wenatchee, WA, Nate grew up working in apple orchards. He enjoys traveling and has visited Morocco, Spain, UK, Germany, France, Holland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Namibia, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, Panama, Columbia, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Nova Scotia and New Finland.
Nate has a passion for music. He learned to play the piano at age 6 and taught himself to play the guitar at age 18. He has produced, recorded and mixed 5 music albums, writing the lyrics and/or music to many of the songs.
Nate started writing poetry at a very young age and transformed his writings into music. He is now a writer for Major Motion Pictures as well as a film producer.- Aubrey Dickinson was born on 11 September 1985 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Who's Deal? (2008), Spicy Mac Project (2009) and Alien Conspiracy (2008).
- Director
- Editor
- Visual Effects
Marty Martin was born on 8 January 1981 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He is a director and editor, known for Know Your Place (2022), The Wisdom of Trauma (2021) and Hagereseb (2015). He has been married to Pauline Beatrice since 17 February 2002. They have three children.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("The Big Beat"), pianist, dance teacher and author who joined ASCAP in 1949 and wrote television themes with her husband Milton Delugg and with Sammy Gallop. She also wrote songs for albums of children's songs. Her other popular-song compositions include "Gee I'm Glad I Married You", "The Little White Horse", and "Honolulu".- Composer
- Music Department
- Executive
Born in Wenatchee Washington on November 24, 1964. He began teaching himself to play guitar at age 14. After moving to Grand Forks North Dakota in 1985 he began playing bass and guitar in local churches, and also began to teach guitar. After moving back to Wenatchee in 1989, he spent the next few years working on music on his own and working in a couple of local bands. In 2001 after getting married and having a child, he took 3 years off from music to help raise his daughter.
In mid 2006 the music bug bite once again and he began to work on music. Wanting to be at home with his family, and disillusioned with playing in bands, he began composing music by himself. He chose to combine his passions for horror movies and music. Starting out as Raven's Moon he set up a myspace page in 2007 and started getting noticed. He was interviewed by an internet radio station, he wrote a theme song and created a video for the show. In late mid 2008 he dropped the Raven's Moon name and chose to use his own name.
He and his family collect, and watch movies. With nearly 2000 movies in their collection and growing by the day. A main focus of that collection is horror movies, ranging from the early films of the 30's right up to the present.
He and his family also has a passion for snakes, Having 8 snakes right now. 3 ball pythons, 2 of which are rescue reptile, taken from an abusive home, 4 Corn snakes, and a red tail boa.- Forrest "Bud" Sagendorf was a teenager when he began as an apprentice for "Popeye" creator, cartoonist E.C. Segar in 1932. Following Segar's death, Sagendorf began illustrating various materials including comic books and a variety of toys and games because at age 23 King Features, who own the copyright to the cartoon, believed he was too young to take over the comic strip. In 1958, King Features finally hired Sagendorf to do the daily and Sunday comic strips. He wrote and illustrated "Popeye: The First Fifty Years" in 1979. He continued drawing Sunday strips until his death in 1994.
- Producer
- Writer
- Art Department
Chris DeGarmo was born on 14 June 1963 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for La búsqueda (2006), Jätku leiba (2012) and The Braverman Account (2010).- D. Kenton Brine was born on 29 January 1962 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He is an actor, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954).
- William Dement was born on 29 July 1928 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA. He was married to Pat. He died on 17 June 2020 in Stanford, California, USA.
- Kurt Schulz was born on 12 December 1968 in Wenatchee, Washington, USA.