Danni Sue Nolan
actress (1923-2002)
Dorothea Alyce Nolan (February 28, 1923 – August 3, 2002), better known as Danny Sue Nolan, was an American film actress. She made approximately 35 film and television appearances between 1949 and 1988 and had a starring role in a 1949 film, Flame of Youth. She was sometimes credited as Danni Sue Nolan, Dani Nolan, or Dani Sue Hilton.
Career
Nolan is familiar to modern viewers for her role as the accidentally disrobed neighbor Gertie Duggan in the Three Stooges film Gents in a Jam. She also had many bit parts in several television shows such as I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, The Fugitive and The Donna Reed Show. She played Miss Bachrach, a receptionist at the Daily Planet in an episode of Adventures with Superman.
Personal life and death
Nolan was married to television director/producer William Asher from 1951 to 1961. They had two children.
Nolan married James Albert Talley on August 8, 1994. She and Talley lived in Palm Springs, California, until her death from a stroke on August 3, 2002, at age 79.
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