Dayle Haddon

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Canadian dancer, model, actress (1948–2024)

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::summary Canadian dancer, model, actress (1948–2024) ::

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nameDayle Haddon
imageDayle Haddon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg
captionHaddon in 2008
birth_date
birth_placeMontreal, Quebec, Canada
death_date
death_placeSolebury Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
occupation
height
haircolorBrown
eyecolorGreen
agency
spouseGlenn Souham (d. 1986)
children1
relativesChristian Slater (former-son-in-law)
Marc Blucas (son-in-law)
signatureAutogramm Dayle Haddon kanadische Schauspielerin.png
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| name = Dayle Haddon | image = Dayle Haddon at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Haddon in 2008 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = | death_place = Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. | occupation = | height = | haircolor = Brown | eyecolor = Green | agency = | spouse = Glenn Souham (d. 1986) | children = 1 | relatives = Christian Slater (former-son-in-law) Marc Blucas (son-in-law) | signature = Autogramm Dayle Haddon kanadische Schauspielerin.png

Dayle Haddon (May 26, 1948 – December 27, 2024) was a Canadian model and actress, known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L'Oréal. Additionally, she was credited as the author of Ageless Beauty: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Beauty and Well-Being. During the earlier part of her career as a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of many top fashion and beauty magazines, as well as the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1973. Haddon also served as a wellness contributor to CBS News where she appeared regularly on The Early Show at the turn of the 21st century. Haddon married French businessman Glenn Souham, who was murdered because of his believed connections to the Iran-Contra affair. They had one daughter, journalist and producer Ryan Haddon. Haddon died at her daughter's property due to carbon monoxide poisoning in December 2024.

Early life and career

Dayle Pauline Haddon was born on May 26, 1948, to Eileen and Edward Haddon. | last1 = Sanders | first1 = Hank | title = Dayle Haddon, 76, Muse Whose Modeling Career Defied Prejudice of Age | work = The New York Times | date = 31 December 2024 | page = B10 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/us/dayle-haddon-dead.html | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241231091412/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/us/dayle-haddon-dead.html | archive-date = 31 December 2024 | url-status = live | last1 = Hamel | first1 = Cheryl | title = Dayle's Not Shy of Success | work = Montreal Star | publisher = FP Publications | location = Montreal | issn = 0842-1331 | date = 3 June 1966 | page = 32 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-vancouver-girl-19-na/162159042/ | access-date = 3 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com | last1 = Mitchell | first1 = Beverley | title = She Seems to Be Heading for Success Even Though She Loves Home Cooking

| work = Montreal Star | publisher = FP Publications | location = Montreal | issn = 0842-1331

| date = 26 July 1966 | page = 8 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-she-seems-to-be-headin/162158894/

| access-date = 3 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com

In January 1966, she had to decide between a career as a professional ballerina or as a model because she was offered a full-time job dancing. | last1 = Turner | first1 = Diane | title = Miss Montreal A Girl Of Many Talents | work =The Gazette | location = Montreal | publisher = Southam Inc. | date = 26 October 1966 | page = 26 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pIEuAAAAIBAJ&dq=dayle+haddon&pg=PA26&article_id=7363,5618021 | access-date = 29 December 2024 | via = Google Books

She competed in the Miss Montreal pageant and won at age 18 on 25 October 1966. She competed in the Miss Canada pageant in early November 1966, but finished as the fourth runner-up. | author = CP Staff | agency = The Canadian Press | title = Vancouver Girl, 19, Named Miss Canada | work = Montreal Star | publisher = FP Publications | location = Montreal | issn = 0842-1331 | date = 8 November 1966 | page = 53 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-vancouver-girl-19-na/162159042/ | access-date = 3 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com

Modelling career 1970s – 1980s

As a model in the 1970s and 1980s, Haddon represented Max Factor, Revlon, and Estée Lauder. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1973 (January 29). | author = SI Staff | title = 1970s covers | magazine = Sports Illustrated | publisher = Time Life | location = New York | date = 29 January 1973 | url = https://www.si.com/vault/issues/1970 | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140228100331/http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/1973/0129_large.jpg | archive-date = 28 February 2014 | url-status = dead | last1 = Taylor | first1 = Richard | title = Disney's Latest Hit | work = Playboy | publisher = Playboy Enterprises, Inc. | location = Chicago | volume = 20 | issue = 4 | date = 1 April 1973 | pages = 147–153 | url = https://www.playboy.com/magazine/articles/1973/04/disney-s-latest-hit/ | access-date = 29 December 2024

Acting career

Haddon worked as an actress, appearing in the Disney movie The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) with Jan-Michael Vincent. She moved to Europe, continued modeling and acting, and appeared in a number of film roles in French and English. | first = Janet | last = Maslin | title = Screen: Beauty Meets Beasts in 'Romantic Lover':Battle of the Sexes | work = The New York Times | date = 5 October 1979 | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E3DE1E31E432A25756C0A9669D946890D6CF

| access-date = 5 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151210185136/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E3DE1E31E432A25756C0A9669D946890D6CF

| archive-date = 10 December 2015 | url-status = live

Haddon was originally cast for the role of Dale Arden in the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon, but producer Dino De Laurentiis replaced her with Melody Anderson just before filming commenced. She took a hiatus from acting in the mid-1980s and returned to the industry when she took the lead role in Cyborg (1989). | last1 = Powers | first1 = Ned | title = Crowded House yes, Stewart no

| work = The Star-Phoenix | publisher = Armdale | location = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | issn = 0832-4182

| date = 6 August 1988 | page = 36 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-phoenix-crowded-house-yes-stewart/162271737/

| access-date = 5 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com

Later modelling career and writer

After the death of her husband left her in financial trouble, Haddon returned to modelling in her late 30s. | first = Renz | last = Kay | title = Dayle Haddon on: Ageless living | work = Boca Raton News | location = Boca Raton, Florida | oclc = 232117398 | date = 5 September 2004 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/boca-raton-news-dayle-haddon-on-ageless/162074997/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com | last1 = Martin | first1 = Melissa Ventosa | title = Style − Boomer Babes | work = The New York Times | date = 6 May 2007 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7D9133EF935A35756C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon= | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195209/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7D9133EF935A35756C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon= | archive-date = 3 March 2016 | url-status = live | last1 = Haddon | first1 = Dayle | title = Ageless Beauty, A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Beauty and Well-Being | publisher = Hyperion Books | location = New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0786864454

Personal life

Haddon was married to French businessman Glenn Souham, who died on 24 September 1986 in Paris, after he was gunned down, most likely by Soviet agents. | last1 = Brodie | first1 = Ian | title = Reagan aide shot after 'Soviet arms hijack plot' | work = The Daily Telegraph | location = London | issn = 0307-1235 | date = 26 June 1987 | page = 6 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-reagan-aide-shot-aft/162080134/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com | author = Sun Staff | title = North plot to steal arms for rebels cited | work = Vancouver Sun | publisher = Southam Inc. | location = Vancouver, British Columbia | agency = Sun News Service | date = 25 June 1987 | page = A4 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-north-plot-to-steal-ar/162080596/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com | author = AP Staff | title = North Tied to Theft of Soviet Arms | work = The Buffalo News | publisher = Berkshire Hathaway | location = Buffalo, New York | agency = The Associated Press | date = 25 June 1987 | page = 1 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-north-tied-to-theft-of/162080763/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | via = Newspapers.com | author = AP Staff | title = Trailblazing model Dayle Haddon dies from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning | work = The Associated Press | location = New York | date = 28 December 2024 | url = https://apnews.com/article/dayle-haddon-death-obituary-model-carbon-monoxide-bedff81dcfd119cf2dd398518a771705 | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20241229215728/https://apnews.com/article/dayle-haddon-death-obituary-model-carbon-monoxide-bedff81dcfd119cf2dd398518a771705 | archive-date = 29 December 2024 | url-status = live

Souham and Haddon had a daughter, Ryan Haddon, who works in the television industry. | last1 = Hall | first1 = Trish | title = Habitats/West 54th Street; A Model Refashions Her Career and Image | work = The New York Times | date = 27 April 2003 | page = S11, P2 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/realestate/habitats-west-54th-street-a-model-refashions-her-career-and-image.html | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180831002654/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/realestate/habitats-west-54th-street-a-model-refashions-her-career-and-image.html | archive-date = 31 August 2018 | url-status = live | last1 = Hanner | first1 = Carol L. | title = 'I have to know if I can make it': Marc Blucas ('94) took the long shot from sports to Hollywood, and he nailed it | work = Wake Forest Magazine | publisher = Wake Forest University | location = Winston-Salem, North Carolina | date = 19 March 2019 | url = https://magazine.wfu.edu/2019/03/19/i-have-to-know-if-i-can-make-it/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190321142307/https://magazine.wfu.edu/2019/03/19/i-have-to-know-if-i-can-make-it/ | archive-date = 21 March 2019 | url-status = live

In early 2008 Haddon was named a UNICEF ambassador. She was also the founder of a non-profit called WomenOne. The organization's motto is "changing the world one woman at a time."

Through WomenOne, Haddon had partnered with Free The Children, an international charity, to provide scholarships for girls’ education in Kenya. Through her organization, she had raised and donated more than $150,000 for one of Free The Children's all-girls secondary schools.

Haddon also appeared as the face of a line of socially and environmentally responsible accessories launched by Me to We, Free The Children's partner organization.

Death

On December 27, 2024, first responders found her unresponsive in a carriage house in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, which was a property owned by her daughter Ryan and son-in-law Marc Blucas. | author = Digital Staff | title = Solebury Township police release new details in death of model, actress Dayle Haddon | work = 6 ABC Action News | publisher =WPVI-TV | location = Philadelphia | date = 28 December 2024 | url = https://6abc.com/post/dayle-haddon-death-solebury-township-police-reveal-cause-deadly-carbon-monoxide-leak-inside-bucks-county-pa-home/15719476/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250101022846/https://6abc.com/post/dayle-haddon-death-solebury-township-police-reveal-cause-deadly-carbon-monoxide-leak-inside-bucks-county-pa-home/15719476/ | archive-date = 1 January 2025 | url-status = live | last1 = Chebanenko | first1 = Danny | title = Canadian model, actress found dead after suspected CO leak at Bucks County, Pa. home | work = 6 ABC Action News | publisher = WPVI-TV | location = Philadelphia | date = 27 December 2024 | url = https://6abc.com/post/woman-dead-man-hospitalized-after-suspected-carbon-monoxide-leak-solebury-twp-bucks-county/15714664/ | access-date = 1 January 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20250101135031/https://6abc.com/post/woman-dead-man-hospitalized-after-suspected-carbon-monoxide-leak-solebury-twp-bucks-county/15714664/ | archive-date = 1 January 2025 | url-status = live

Filmography

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Notes

References

References

  1. "Madame Claude (1977) - Full cast & crew - IMDb".
  2. Maslin, Janet. (1 August 1979). "Film: 'Dallas Forty':Cynicism and Comedy". The New York Times.
  3. Smith, Adam. (7 January 2016). "Gordon's alive! The untold story of Flash Gordon". [[Empire (magazine).
  4. (2008-02-12). "Best-selling author Dayle Haddon named UNICEF Ambassador :: Celebrity Ambassadors :: People & Partners :: U.S. Fund for UNICEF". Unicef Usa.
  5. "WomenOne". WomenOne.
  6. "WomenOne: What We're Doing". WomenOne.
  7. "Me to We Artisans Magazine Fall 2012". Me to We.

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