Nancy Olson (actress)

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Nancy Olson (born July 14, 1928 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American actress .

life and career

Nancy Olson was discovered for the film while acting as a student at the University of Los Angeles . She made her film debut in 1948 with a small role in William Dieterle's love film Jennie - The Portrait of a Love . In 1950 she became known as the friend of William Holden in Billy Wilder's classic film Boulevard of Dawn . The role of Betty in this film earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress . Also in 1950 she married the musical writer Alan Jay Lerner . Although her career in Hollywood had started promisingly and quickly by then, she soon cut back her stint in films when she became the mother of two children. It was then only seen sporadically on the screen. The marriage with Lerner was divorced in 1957. In 1962 she married the important music producer Alan Livingston , with whom she was married until his death in March 2009. She has a third child from her marriage to Livingston.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Nancy Olson starred in a number of Walt Disney feature films. Of these, especially her appearances as Betsy Carlisle at the side of Fred MacMurray in the Robert Stevenson- directed science fiction comedies The Flying Timpani and its sequel The Timpanist Can't Avoid Big Success. She also had a role in the disaster film Giants in the Sky . In addition to her films, she appeared in several US television series between the 1950s and 1970s, but again only sporadically. Her cameo in the remake of those films, Flubber from 1997, was a throwback to it. Olson most recently took on a supporting role in the film Dumbbells , a work directed by her son Alan, in 2014 .

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SURNAME Olson, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States