1. Chris Noel is a retired American actress and entertainer.
27 Facts About Chris Noel
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Chris Noel hosted the radio program A Date With Chris, one of Armed Forces Radio's most popular shows.
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Chris Noel's picture appeared on the cover of Good Housekeeping magazine when she was 16 years old, and she was painted as a pin-up model by Gil Elvgren.
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Chris Noel had her own modeling school in Lake Park, Florida.
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Chris Noel was the cover girl for a number of magazines and appeared in advertising for Ford Mustang and other products.
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Chris Noel's radio show A Date with Chris was recorded in California and South Vietnam between 1966 and 1971 for the Armed Forces Radio heard on 300 stations around the world.
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Chris Noel was the DJ for her show and did interviews with artists including Ray Charles, Lawrence Welk, Robert Mitchum, Marvin Gaye, Nancy Sinatra and others.
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Chris Noel received the Distinguished Vietnam Veteran award in 1984 from the Veterans Network for her work during the war.
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Chris Noel's last visit to South Vietnam was in 1969.
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Chris Noel first co-hosted an Armed Forces Radio show called Small World, which was a hit and led to her own show.
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Chris Noel was dating singer Jack Jones at the time.
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Chris Noel sang, danced, read poetry, signed autographs, talk to, kissed and hugged the troops in South Vietnam from 1966 to 1970.
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Chris Noel is the only woman to travel through South Vietnam to remote bases in helicopters, riding with the door open, next to the gunner.
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Chris Noel survived mortar and assault rifle attacks in war zones.
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Chris Noel made a number of visits troops at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, some with Betty Waldron and Bill Thrasher.
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Chris Noel was performing cover songs by John Prine and needed a backup band, so Colby asked Dennis Lepri, who had worked with Kenny Rogers and Gunhill Road, to form a band for her and produce her sound.
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Sometime after, the band was dissolved and Chris Noel pursued other interests.
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Chris Noel killed himself in December 1969 after they had been married for 11 months.
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Chris Noel went on to marry three more times, once to a Texan independent oil producer, another to a guy she met in church, and last to a lawyer.
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Chris Noel has written books, her latest book is about filming Cease Fire with Don Johnson.
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Chris Noel was asked and attended the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC in 1982.
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Chris Noel and Captain Ty Herrington, born July 2,1941, were married on January 11,1969 in Miami.
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Chris Noel founded the Women's Interactive Network in 1985 to help women with Post-traumatic stress disorder.
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In May 2022 Chris Noel was Awarded the Heroes Honor Lifetime Award at the Heroes Honor Festival.
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Chris Noel began acting started in 1963 on stage in the Broadway play Mister Roberts with Hugh O'Brian, her boyfriend at the time.
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Chris Noel acting in film started with a role in Soldier in the Rain, with Steve McQueen and included working with Elvis Presley in Girl Happy.
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Chris Noel was in Beach Ball with Edd Byrnes, and Cease Fire with Don Johnson.