Nancy Valentine (born Annette Valentine; January 21, 1928 – July 31, 2017) was an American actress, known for her roles in ''
The Black Castle
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'' (1952), ''
Deadline Midnight
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'' (1959) and ''
Small Town Girl'' (1953).
Biography
Valentine was born in
St. Albans, Queens, New York City.
[The Malibu Times, Obituary: Nancy Annette Valentine, 18 August 2017]
(Retrieved 2017-08-27.) She started her career as a Conover Model before becoming an actress. She later left Hollywood to become the first wife of
Jagaddipendra Narayan, Jagaddipendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur,
K.C.I.E
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#Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
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#Companion ( CIE)
No appoi ...
(15 December 1915 – 11 April 1970)
Maharaja
Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king".
A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, an ...
of
Cooch-Behar
Cooch Behar (), or Koch Bihar, is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. It is in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas at . Cooch Behar is the only planned city in the ...
, in India.
While dining at the famed El Morocco nightclub one night in 1946, Nancy was discovered by Howard Hughes, who signed her to a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox.
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Death
Valentine died at her home in Malibu, California
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on July 31, 2017.
Filmography
She had parts in many TV shows in the 50s and 60s, including ''Racket Squad
''Racket Squad'' is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953.
The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode featured various ordinary citizens getting ensnared in a different confidence scheme. E ...
'', '' Lawman (1960)'', '' Dragnet'', ''The Real McCoys
''The Real McCoys'' is an American situation comedy starring Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan. Co-produced by Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's Westgate Company, it ...
'', ''77 Sunset Strip
''77 Sunset Strip'' is an American television Private investigator#PIs in fiction, private detective drama series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith (actor), Roger Smith, Richard Long (actor), Richard Long (fr ...
'' and ''Sea Hunt
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''. She played Fliss, the Matron of Honor, in ''Father of the Bride The Father of the Bride is commonly one of the wedding ceremony participants.
Father of the Bride may also refer to:
* ''Father of the Bride'' (novel), 1949, by Edward Streeter
** ''Father of the Bride'' (franchise), media franchise based on the 1 ...
'', and was in TV movies such as '' The Girl Most Likely to...'' and ''Night Slaves
''Night Slaves'' is a 1970 American television science fiction horror film directed by Ted Post and starring James Franciscus and Lee Grant. It was based on a 1965 novel by science fiction writer Jerry Sohl, best known for writing episodes of '' T ...
''.
References
External links
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Maharani Nancy Valentine on Facebook
Actresses from New York City
American actresses
1928 births
2017 deaths
21st-century American women
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