Naura Hayden, originally Norah Helene Hayden (September , â€" August
, ) in New York, New York) was an author (under that name), who
worked in entertainment also as Nora Hayden and in modeling as Helene
Hayden and was the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter John Hayden
and his wife (née Bussens). An aunt was Phyllis McGinley Hayden. She
was a long-time resident of New York City.She was noticed as a photo
model at age when featured in the December issue of Glamorous Models
magazine. In she toured cities to promote Mercury automobiles and
attract tourists to the southeastern United States, and in columnist
Earl Wilson dubbed her his "perfect Wilson girl". That year, under
contract to Sidnew W. Pink, she joined a Canadian musical cast of Li'l
Abner and began appearing on television. Her best-known TV commercial
was an early color one for RCA in the early s.Hayden appeared in
television shows such as Sunset Strip (),The Real McCoys (), Bonanza
() and the presentation of the Emmy Awards () where she carried the
"Miss Emmy" torch for host Johnny Carson. She appeared in Gunsmoke (:)
"Lacey" in . She had substantial parts in several motion pictures and
authored a number of books, such as Everything You've Always Wanted To
Know About Energy, But Were Too Weak To Ask and her best-seller, How
to Satisfy a Woman Every Time which had sold over a half a million
copies by . Her career also included the radio show Naura's Good News
on WMCA (), record albums And then She Wrote () and Equal Time (),
appearances as a singer at the Round Table and managing Manhattan
restaurants Opera Espresso at the Empire Hotel and Our Place. She
starred in the Off Broadway musical Be Kind to People Week in .Her
best-known film appearance is a starring role in the science fiction
film The Angry Red Planet, written by Sidney W. Pink and directed by
Ib Melchior.
, ) in New York, New York) was an author (under that name), who
worked in entertainment also as Nora Hayden and in modeling as Helene
Hayden and was the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter John Hayden
and his wife (née Bussens). An aunt was Phyllis McGinley Hayden. She
was a long-time resident of New York City.She was noticed as a photo
model at age when featured in the December issue of Glamorous Models
magazine. In she toured cities to promote Mercury automobiles and
attract tourists to the southeastern United States, and in columnist
Earl Wilson dubbed her his "perfect Wilson girl". That year, under
contract to Sidnew W. Pink, she joined a Canadian musical cast of Li'l
Abner and began appearing on television. Her best-known TV commercial
was an early color one for RCA in the early s.Hayden appeared in
television shows such as Sunset Strip (),The Real McCoys (), Bonanza
() and the presentation of the Emmy Awards () where she carried the
"Miss Emmy" torch for host Johnny Carson. She appeared in Gunsmoke (:)
"Lacey" in . She had substantial parts in several motion pictures and
authored a number of books, such as Everything You've Always Wanted To
Know About Energy, But Were Too Weak To Ask and her best-seller, How
to Satisfy a Woman Every Time which had sold over a half a million
copies by . Her career also included the radio show Naura's Good News
on WMCA (), record albums And then She Wrote () and Equal Time (),
appearances as a singer at the Round Table and managing Manhattan
restaurants Opera Espresso at the Empire Hotel and Our Place. She
starred in the Off Broadway musical Be Kind to People Week in .Her
best-known film appearance is a starring role in the science fiction
film The Angry Red Planet, written by Sidney W. Pink and directed by
Ib Melchior.
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