Naura Hayden

Norah Helene Hayden September 29 1930 August 10 2013 was an American actress and as Naura Hayden an author who worked in entertainment also as Nora Hayden and in modeling as Helene Hayden Hayden was the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter John Hayden and his wife née Bussens An aunt was Phyllis McGinley Hayden She was a longtime resident of New York City She was noticed as a photo model at age 19 when featured in the December 1949 issue of Glamorous Models magazine In 1955 she toured 68 cities to promote Mercury automobiles and attract tourists to the Southeastern United States and in 1958 columnist Earl Wilson dubbed her his perfect Wilson girl That year under contract to Sidney W Pink she joined a Canadian musical cast of Lil Abner and began appearing on television Her bestknown commercial was promoting RCA Color TV in the early 1960s Hayden appeared in television shows such as 77 Sunset Strip 1958The Real McCoys 1958 and Bonanza 1961 and the presentation of the Emmy Awards 1962 where she carried the Miss Emmy torch for host Johnny Carson She appeared in Gunsmoke episode Lacey in 1966 She had substantial parts in several motion pictures and authored a number of books such as Everything Youve Always Wanted to Know About Energy But Were Too Weak to Ask and her bestseller How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time which had sold over a half a million copies by 1992 Her career also included the radio show Nauras Good News on WMCA 1982 record albums And then She Wrote 1976 and Equal Time 1979 appearances as a singer at the Round Table and managing Manhattan restaurants Opera Espresso at the Empire Hotel in Manhattan and Our Place She starred in the offBroadway musical Be Kind to People Week in 1975 Her bestknown film appearance is a starring role in the 1959 sciencefiction film The Angry Red Planet written by Sidney W Pink and directed by Ib Melchior Hayden was married 1964 to restaurateur John Harrison 19691973 to television executive Gary Stevens and to attorney Theodore Geiser 1975