1. Kathleen Nolan was born on Joycelyn Schrum; September 27,1933 and is an American actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
13 Facts About Kathleen Nolan
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Kathleen Nolan's family acted in tent shows and had their own troupe, the Circle Stock Company.
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Kathleen Nolan graduated from high school in St Louis and sang on a radio station there.
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On Broadway, Kathleen Nolan played Wendy in the original production of the Styne-Comden-Green musical version of Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard, a role she repeated in both the 1955 and 1956 live NBC-TV broadcasts on Producers' Showcase.
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When Kathleen Nolan was an usher at the Palace Theatre for Judy Garland's show, word got backstage to Garland that an usher could recreate her entire performance.
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Garland had, of course, never seen the show or her own staging, so she invited Kathleen Nolan to perform the entire show while she sat in the house.
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Kathleen Nolan spent most of her career on television, making her debut in an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse.
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Kathleen Nolan then missed four months of work and was "in and out of the hospital many times" before returning to the series to perform in the episode broadcast on June 15,1961.
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Kathleen Nolan left The Real McCoys before its final season.
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Kathleen Nolan served for two terms as the first female president of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Kathleen Nolan served on SAG's board of directors for a dozen years.
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Kathleen Nolan is a life member of the Actors Studio and a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award.
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Kathleen Nolan married Richard Heckenkamp, a "personal manager for celebrities", on November 4,1962.