
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 21, 1990                   TAG: 9006210247
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By New York Times
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

ACTRESS INA BALIN DIES OF LUNG DISEASE

Ina Balin, a film and stage actress whose adoption of three Vietnamese orphans was dramatized in a 1980 television movie in which she played herself, died Wednesday at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. She was 52 and lived in Westport, Conn.

A spokesman for the hospital said Balin died of complications of chronic lung disease.

Balin became associated with a Saigon orphanage, An Lac, in 1970, when she visited it while touring with a USO show.

Five years later, in the final days of the Vietnam War, she and an another American, Betty Tisdale, helped evacuate children from the orphanage to the United States, and Balin, who was unmarried, adopted three girls.

Her films include: "From the Terrace" (1960), "The Young Doctors" (1961), "The Comancheros" (1961), "The Patsy" (1964), "The Greatest Story Every Told" (1965), "Charro!" (1969) and "The Projectionist" (1971).

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