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Christine Norden (28 December 1924 - 21 September 1988) was a British actress. ==Career== Born Mary Lydia Thornton in Mowbray Terrace, Sunderland, she was the daughter of a bus driver.〔(Biography )〕 Her childhood home was in Chester Road, Sunderland, and she was educated at Chester Road Primary School and Havelock School.〔''Sunderland Echo'', January 7, 1977, page 2〕 Norden gained experience of 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 June 3, 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.〔''Sunderland Echo'', January 7, 1977, page 2〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christine Norden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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