Jeanette Nolan

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998)

Nolan began her prolific acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, and, while a student at Los Angeles City College, made her radio debut in 1932 in Omar Khayyam, the first transcontinental broadcast from station KHJ. She continued acting into the 1990s. She appeared regularly in several radio series, including Young Doctor Malone, 1939–1940; Cavalcade of America, 1940–1941; Nicolette Moore in One Man's Family, 1947–1950; and The Great Gildersleeve, 1949–1952. She appeared episodically in many more. Nolan also made more than three hundred appearances on various TV series. Nolan's best known role was on The Virginian (1962-1971), opposite her real life husband John McIntire. She also appeared on Perry Mason, Bat Masterson, The Rebel, Peter Gunn, The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, Crusader, and Night Gallery, among other series. She made her film debut as Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles' 1948 film Macbeth, and later appeared in White Heat (1949), although her film roles were mainly supportive. In 1935, Nolan married actor John McIntire; the couple remained together until his death in 1991. Nolan and McIntire had two children together, actors Holly and Tim. Nolan died of a stroke in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on June 5, 1998 at age 86. She is buried at Eureka, Montana's Tobacco Valley Cemetery.