Actress Marilyn Nash dies

Marilyn Nash Hill, who starred with Charlie Chaplin within the latter's 1947 dark comedy "Monsieur Verdoux," died on March. 6, 2011. She was 84.The film, whose title character sucks and killings the wealthy women he marries to help keep his wife, who's disabled, in middle-class comfort, wasn't well accepted by American experts, and Nash made only other pic, the undistinguished sci-fier "Unknown World," by which she performed a physician.She also made a few looks on tv within the nineteen fifties, in "Hopalong Cassidy" in 1952 and "Team" in 1955.Through her first husband, film writer Philip Yordan ("Detective Story," "Johnny Guitar"), she met William Castle, and her friendship with Castle survived more than her marriage to Yordan. In 2007, she made an appearance being an interviewee in Jeffrey Schwarz's documentary "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story." Born in Flint, Mich., she would be a student in the U. of Arizona thinking about work in medicine when she visited La together with her mother and met Chaplin around the tennis court in the Beverly Hillsides Hotel. He signed her to some contract with Chaplin Galleries.Nash also behaved onstage. Because of her marriage to Yordan (later an Oscar champion), she rapidly found herself among Hollywood royalty, however the couple divorced in early '50s. She married Dr. Jesse P. Hot dogs, and also the couple later moved to Oroville, Calif., where she offered like a casting director for films shot for the reason that area, including "The Klansman," "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "The Truly Amazing Smokey Roadblock." She later married Mack Hill, who predeceased her.Nash is made it by four sons and six grandchildren.A memorial is going to be held Thursday, March. 27, at 11 a.m. at St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Chapel, 228 Salem St., Chico, CA 95928.Donations might be made at Nationalfragilexfoundation.org Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com