Chana Eden (Hebrew: חנה עדן; November 23, 1932[1] – March 30, 2019) was an Israeli-American. She was an actress. She was a singer.[2]

Chana Eden
Publicity photograph, c. 1958
Born
Chana Mesyngier
(Hebrew: חנה מסינגר)

(1932-11-23)November 23, 1932
DiedMarch 30, 2019(2019-03-30) (aged 86)
Rosh Pinna, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
American
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1958–1987

Her debut was in 1958, a film Wind Across the Everglades. She appeared in guest roles, in many US television series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was not until the 1980s that she returned to acting, on only two occasions.

Biography

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Chana Mesyngier was born in Haifa. Her parents were Rachel and Menachem Mesyngier, who was a pharmacist.[2] She was educated at Haifa's French School Alliance. She studied dancing in an English ballet company. After her graduation from the French school, she enrolled and briefly attended classes at a commercial college. She enlisted in the Israeli Navy. She participated in the 1948 Israeli independence war.[2]

She first arrived in the United States in 1953. She studied film directing and cutting in Hollywood. She took the surname Eden.[3] She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1960 per the California, Southern District Court (Central) Naturalization Index.

Career

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Eden made her debut in Wind Across the Everglades (1958) and appeared in 30 television series. Eden appeared as an Argentine girl in an episode of The Rifleman in 1958. She played a young Shoshone woman in the Bonanza episode "The Last Hunt" (1959), the title character's wife in the Perry Mason Season 4, Episode 7 "The Case of the Clumsy Clown" (1960), and an Italian partisan named Elena in Season 1, Episode 4 "Ninety-Eight Cents Man" of The Gallant Men (1962).

Playing a Greek mail-order bride in a 1961 episode of Have Gun - Will Travel, Eden turns in a lively performance along with Charles Bronson, George Kennedy, and the series's star, Richard Boone. Her only recurring role in television was featured in two Adventures in Paradise episodes, "The Color of Venom" and "The Death-Divers" (both 1960).

Performances

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Filmography

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Television

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References

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  1. ^ "Chana Meyngier Eden - Brasil, São Paulo, Cartões de Imigração" (Document) (in Portuguese). FamilySearch.
  2. ^ a b c "Israeli Singer Discovered In N. Y. Nite Club to Star In Schulberg's Film; To Be Known as 'Chana Eden'". The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. July 25, 1958. p. 5.
  3. ^ "To Hollywood". The National Jewish Post. May 29, 1953.
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