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Norma Varden Shackleton (20 January 1898 – 19 January 1989), known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career. [ 4 ] Life and career
Norma Varden. Actress: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The daughter of a retired sea captain and his much-younger wife, actress Norma Varden was born and raised in turn-of-the-century London. A piano prodigy, she studied in Paris and appeared in concert in England during her teenage years. Acting, however, became her career of choice, studying at the ...
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Jan 22, 1989 · Norma Varden, whose acting career in films, television and on the state included such roles as Jack Benny's mother and the housekeeper in ''The Sound of Music,'' has died at age 90. Miss Varden ...
Norma Varden Shackleton (20 January 1898 – 19 January 1989), known professionally as Norma Varden, was an English-American actress with a long film career.
Jan 22, 1989 · Character actress Norma Varden, whose lengthy stage, television and film career included such roles as comedian Jack Benny's mother and the housekeeper in ``The Sound of Music,'' has died at age 90 in Santa Barbara, Calif. Miss Varden died Thursday of heart failure at Cottage Hospital's coronary care unit, nurse Kathy Polischuk said Saturday. She had moved to this coastal city 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles in 1969.
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Jan 21, 1989 · Norma Varden, a character actress who was seen in such diverse entertainment vehicles as "Hamlet" on stage and the mother on "The Jack Benny Show" on television, died Thursday in a Santa Barbara ...
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Norma learned to play the piano in Paris and participated in concerts in London when she was a teenager, and she continued to...Read more study music at Goldhall School. Then she performed in theater performances in roles much older than her age, and excelled in Shakespearean roles such as the wandering Jew in 1920 and Hamlet in 1925.