Norma Eberhardt
Norma Eberhardt; married Dauphin ( born July 8, 1929 in Oakhurst, New Jersey; † 16 September 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York ) was an American actress.
Life
Norma Eberhardt, born in the U.S. state of New Jersey, was discovered as a teenager at the Easter Parade in Asbury Park by a New York photographer as a model. It belonged to the late 1940s / early 1950s to the " top models " and cover girls in the United States. Also contributed to the different color in their eyes. One of her eyes was blue, the other brown.
In the early 1950s she began her career as an actress. She had at first only small roles, as in the movie musical sailor, watch out! (1952 ), in the film comedy horror Division (1953, as a canteen assistant ), both each with Dean Martin, and as suffering from agoraphobia young girl Louise in the film drama Problem Girls ( 1953).
In the film drama Live Fast, Die Young ( 1958) she played under the direction of Paul Henreid as the female lead. She played Jill Winters, a young girl who leaves school, goes to the big city, where it is involved in criminal machinations of a gang of jewel thieves.
Her most famous role was the female lead role in the horror film Dracula's blood Eight ( 1958). In this, in a small American town in Southern California laid as a venue Dracula movie Eberhardt played the young Rachel Maybery that gets along with her mother and younger brother visit from her Romanian cousin Bellac Gordal ( Dracula ), whose sacrifice it threatens to be.
She starred in the 1950s also episode roles and guest roles in several American television series, including the television series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock (1952 ), State Trooper (1958), police report (1959 ), The Lawless Years ( 1959) and in the sitcom Hogan's Heroes ( 1961).
1955 Eberhardt married to French actor Claude Dauphin, with whom she lived in New York, Hollywood, in Ocean Township, Monmouth County and in Paris alternately. Eberhardt lived after their withdrawal from the film business, and after the death of the Dauphin († 1978) permanently in Monmouth County. She was one of the founding members and trustees of the local Ocean Township Historical Museum.
Eberhardt died at the age of 82 years at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on the effects of a stroke.