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Nan Leslie Profile
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| (Nanette June Leslie) |
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| 4 June 26 | is born in Los Angeles, California, to Frank M. Leslie and Alma H. Turner |
| 30 | lives with her parents in Beverly Hills |
| 41 | attends University High School |
| c. 45 | meets actress Gail Davis at RKO; the two will remain lifelong friends |
| May 46 | columnist Jimmie Fidler thinks that she and “Robert Clark, who met while playing brother-and-sister roles in RKO’s Sunset Pass, are about to make it Mr. and Mrs. ...” |
| Late 40s | is in-officially engaged to co-star Tim Holt for a year and a half. He’s in the midst of a divorce at that time. |
| March 47 | is among several actors attending the premieres of RKO’s Trail Street throughout Kansas |
| c. May 49 | secretly marries Charles Pawley, socialite formerly under contract to RKO, in Yuma. He’s about 34; she’s 22. |
| ? | divorces Pawley, who will marry actress Susan Cummings in 1962 and die in 1975 |
| September 55 | the press photograps her watching her own TV debut on a set in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hunt |
| 6 May 68 / late 60s | marries Albert Jason Coppage |
| 4 January 90 | after a long and happy marriage, she becomes the widow of Coppage, who dies at age 69 in San Juan, Capistrano, California |
| 93 | resides in Mission Viejo, California |
| 27 July 00 | as Nan Coppage, she dies at age 74 in San Juan, Capistrano, California, from pneumonia |
| Sources: Westerns Women by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald, The Atchison Daily Globe, Nevada State Journal, Southtown Economist, www.Ancestry.com | |
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