Nancy Nash

I have contributed three posts where I challenged visitors to identify a "mystery guest". Each actress was identified within a few days - proof of a very knowledgeable readership. Today's post introduces Nancy Nash, whose scanned image from one of our postcards is presented below.

Aside from the card and one image I found on the web, I can find absolutely no information except for the filmography listed on IMDB. It seems that Nancy appeared first in 1926 in Fox's The City, playing the lead. In 1927 she was the lead in two more Fox features, Upstream, directed by John Ford, and Rich But Honest. That same year saw her as the second female lead after Dolores Del Rio in The Loves of Carmen, directed by Raoul Walsh. Nancy next appeared in 1928 in a western, The Ballyhoo Buster. Her final two appearances are as an uncredited Goldwyn Girl in the Eddie Cantor vehicles, Palmy Days (1931) and The Kid From Spain (1932).

What happened? Three lead roles, two second tier roles and finally an uncredited show girl. I have looked all over the web, in magazines from the period, the NYT archives, and in books on silents, and I can't even find out when or where she was born. So, perhaps someone out there can help provide additional information. The fact that I have the postcard shows that Fox put some publicity effort behind her, but it sure didn't seem to survive.

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