Naura Hayden

Who is Naura Hayden?

Naura Hayden, originally Norah Helene Hayden is an author, who has worked in entertainment also as Nora Hayden and in modeling as Helene Hayden and is the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter John Hayden and his wife. An aunt was Phyllis McGinley Hayden. She is a long-time resident of New York City.

She was noticed as a photo model at age 19 when featured in the December 1949 issue of Glamorous Models magazine. In 1955 she toured 68 cities to promote Mercury automobiles and attract tourists to the southeastern United States, and in 1958 columnist Earl Wilson dubbed her his "perfect Wilson girl". That year, under contract to Sid Pink, she joined a Canadian musical cast of Li'l Abner and began appearing on television. Her best known TV commercial was an early color one for RCA in the early 1960s.

Hayden has appeared in television shows such as 77 Sunset Strip, Bonanza and the presentation of the Emmy Awards where she carried the "Miss Emmy" torch for host Johnny Carson. She has had substantial parts in several motion pictures and authored a number of books, such as Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Energy, But Were Too Weak To Ask and her best-seller, How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time which had sold over a half a million copies by 1992. Her career also includes the radio show Naura's Good News on WMCA, record albums And then She Wrote and Equal Time, appearances as a singer at the Round Table and managing Manhattan restaurants Opera Espresso at the Empire Hotel and Our Place. She starred in the Off Broadway musical Be Kind to People Week in 1975.