Ina Balin

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Ina Balin November 12 1937 June 20 1990 was an American actress on Broadway and in film Born as Ina Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Brooklyn she first appeared on television on The Perry Como Show She also did summer stock which led to roles on Broadway and in 1959 she won the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Broadway comedy A Majority of One starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke That same year she landed her first film role in The Black Orchid starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn A year later Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace She also appeared in The Young Doctors In 1961 she appeared as Pilar Graile in The Comancheros with John Wayne and Stuart Whitman Costarring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy Balin also had a secondary but important part in 1965s The Greatest Story Ever Told She costarred with Elvis Presley in his 1969 film Charro Balin gueststarred on dozens of television shows including Bonanza The Dick Van Dyke Show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Battlestar Galactica Get Smart Ironside Quincy ME and Magnum PI She appeared with Joseph Cotten Fernando Lamas and Dean Jagger in the 1969 madefortelevision movie The Lonely Profession In 1970 Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the wartorn region She costarred in the 1971 film The Projectionist which marked the screen debut of Rodney Dangerfield In 1975 she aided in the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon eventually she adopted three of these orphaned children In 1980 she played herself in a madefortelevision movie based on these experiences The Children of An Lac While working on The Children of An Lac she became acquainted with Christy Marx who at the time worked as a producers liaison for various television programs According to Marx she used Balins story as a basis for a character in the animated show Jem when she later became a writer The character of Ba Nee is based on Balins adopted daughter BaNhi Ba Nees obsession with and struggle to find her birth father are the focus of several episodes of Jem She costarred in the comedy The Comeback Trail with the lead actor and director from The Projectionist Description above from the Wikipedia article Ina Balin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia