Norma Lee Clark (1927 – 8 November 2002) was an American actress and author of

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who worked for over 30 years as the private secretary and assistant to filmmaker

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Biography

Clark, born in

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, began her acting career with the Pittsburgh Children's Theater and also worked at the Rochester Arena Theater before moving to

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in the late 1940s. She moved there to take the female lead in ''

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'', a television series that ran from 1949 to 1955. She may have been the first recurrent female science fiction lead in television; significant, but early television history of the defunct Dumont network identified only a few of the actors, and the exact transmission dates are not known. During her decades as Woody Allen's assistant, she wrote 15

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novels, including ''The Infamous Rake'', ''The Daring Duchess'', and ''The Impulsive Miss Pymbroke''. The "most popular" of her novels was ''Lady Jane''. She sometimes published under the name Megan O'Connor. She was married to lighting designer David Clark, and had two daughters, Megan and Emily. The couple later divorced. Afterwards, she remarried to Dimitri Vassilopoulos.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Norma Lee American women romantic fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American novelists American women historical novelists American television actresses 1927 births 2002 deaths American romantic fiction novelists American historical novelists 20th-century American actresses