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Nancy Olson is a Actor American born on 14 july 1928 at Milwaukee

Nancy Olson

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Birth name Nancy Ann Olson
Nationality USA
Birth 14 july 1928 (96 years) at Milwaukee

Nancy Ann Olson (born July 14, 1928) is an American actress. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, for her portrayal of Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She co-starred with William Holden in four films, and also later appeared in Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and its sequel, Son of Flubber (1963), as well as the disaster film Airport 1975 (1974).

Since the early 1980s, Olson has been virtually retired from acting, although she has made a few rare returns, most recently in 2014.

Biography

Olson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Evelyn Bertha (née Bergstrom 1901-1979), whose parents were from Sweden, and Henry John Olson, who was a physician. She has a brother, David Olson.

She became the third wife of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1950 and had two daughters, Liza and Jennifer. They divorced in 1957.

In 1962 she married longtime Capitol Records executive Alan W. Livingston, best known for creating "Bozo the Clown" and for signing Frank Sinatra and The Beatles, among other legends, with Capitol. He died in 2009; they had one son, Christopher. Olson is a registered Democrat and over the years has made several money donations coinciding with her party under her married name.

Best films

Flubber (1997)
(Actress)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
(Actress)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
(Actress)

Usually with

Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh
(3 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(4 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(4 films)
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nancy Olson (20 films)

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Actress

Dumbbells
Dumbbells (2014)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mircea Monroe, Jaleel White, Hoyt Richards, Brian Drolet, Taylor Cole, Jay Mohr
Roles Bianca Cummings
Rating35% 1.786881.786881.786881.786881.78688
Chris Long is an ex-NCAA basketball player turned trainer who finds a new purpose when his gym's new owner, Jack, unleashes a lucrative plan to turn the neglected business into a reality show. When Chris' co-workers resist this new direction, he and Jack form an unlikely alliance that allows them to face the demons of their pasts and ultimately, save the gym's future.
Flubber
Flubber (1997)
, 1h33
Directed by Les Mayfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine, Jodi Benson, Clancy Brown
Roles Secretary at Ford Motor Company
Rating53% 2.654192.654192.654192.654192.65419
Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) of Medfield College is developing a new energy source, in an attempt to raise enough money to save the college from closure. His preoccupation with his research distracts him from his fiancée, the college president Sara Jean Reynolds (Marcia Gay Harden). He has missed two weddings because of that preoccupation, much to Sara's anger. On the day of the third attempted wedding, Philip is approached by his former partner Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald), who has profited from ideas he has stolen from the chemist and now desires to steal Sara from Philip and make her his wife, which he declares directly to Philip. Before he can make it to the wedding, his latest experiment shows fast development, forcing him to miss another wedding. The resulting substance created from the experiment is a green goo that increases in speed as it bounces and proves to be difficult to control, wreaking havoc on the neighborhood before the professor finally manages to capture it. Weebo (voiced by Jodi Benson), Philip's hovering robot assistant, classifies the substance as "flying rubber", leading Philip to christen it as "Flubber".
Making Love, 1h53
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Terry Kiser, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill
Roles Christine
Rating68% 3.4480753.4480753.4480753.4480753.448075
Zack Elliot (Ontkean) is a successful young doctor (an oncologist) in the Los Angeles area married to Claire (Jackson), an equally successful television network executive during the early 1980s. They have been married for eight years and are generally happy in their relationship, sharing in common a love for Gilbert and Sullivan and the poetry of Rupert Brooke, to whom they were introduced by their elderly former neighbor, Winnie Bates (Wendy Hiller). Intending to start a family, the couple buys a big house.
Airport 1975, 1h46
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist II, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson
Roles Mrs. Abbott
Rating57% 2.850292.850292.850292.850292.85029
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Snowball Express, 1h33
Directed by Norman Tokar, Christopher Hibler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker, Michael McGreevey
Roles Sue Baxter
Rating63% 3.1520753.1520753.1520753.1520753.152075
Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) is at his corporate middle class job when a probate attorney (David White) tells him that his recently deceased uncle, Jacob Barnesworth, has left him sole ownership of the lucrative Grand Imperial Hotel in the fictional town of Silver Hill, Colorado. A letter written by Barnesworth claims that the hotel brings in more than $14,000 per month. Baxter, clearly chafing under the dehumanizing conditions at the office, views this as a golden opportunity.
Smith!
Smith! (1969)
, 1h52
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Glenn Ford, Nancy Olson, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Warren Oates, Chief Dan George
Roles Norah Smith
Rating57% 2.8586052.8586052.8586052.8586052.858605
Native American Jimmyboy (Frank Ramírez) flees to the ranch owned by Smith (Glenn Ford), a white man raised by a Native American. Jimmyboy has been accused of a crime by a white man and fears he will not receive a fair trial. Smith helps Jimmyboy deal with a cruel sheriff and persuades him to surrender to the local authorities, promising him he will act as a defence witness during court proceedings.
Son of Flubber, 1h40
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Kirk
Roles Betsy Brainard
Rating60% 3.048343.048343.048343.048343.04834
Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of Flubber has not quite brought him or his college the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of "Flubbergas," (the "son" of Flubber) which can change the weather. His wife Betsy becomes fed up with all the stress and starts separating from him, and the professor's old rival Shelby starts trying to woo her again. Brainard's experiments continue, by making it rain inside people's houses, as well as in Shelby's car too while he's driving, which causes him to get into an accident with a police car. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game, but it also has one unfortunate side effect: It shatters glass, which eventually places Brainard on the lam. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend. On trial, Ned's future seems hopeless, until a farmer shows the court that his crops grew extra large because of Ned's experiment, which the farmer names "Dry Rain", and the professor is acquitted, and he and Betsy are reunited.
The Absent-Minded Professor, 1h37
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Sports films, Comedy science fiction films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames, Wally Brown, Elliott Reid
Roles Betsy Carlisle
Rating66% 3.3467753.3467753.3467753.3467753.346775
Professor Brainard (pronounced BRAY-nerd) is an absent-minded professor of physical chemistry at Medfield College who invents a substance that gains energy when it strikes a hard surface. This discovery follows some blackboard scribbling in which he reverses a sign in the equation for enthalpy to energy plus pressure times volume. Brainard names his discovery Flubber, which is a portmanteau of "flying rubber." In the excitement of his discovery, he misses his own wedding to Betsy Carlisle, not for the first time. Subplots include another professor wooing the disappointed Miss Carlisle, Biff Hawk's ineligibility for basketball due to failing Brainard's class, Alonzo Hawk's schemes to gain wealth by means of Flubber, the school's financial difficulties and debt to Mr. Hawk, and Brainard's attempts to interest the government and military in uses for Flubber.
Pollyanna
Pollyanna (1960)
, 2h14
Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Nancy Furman
Rating73% 3.6959453.6959453.6959453.6959453.695945
Pollyanna, fille orpheline de missionnaires, arrive dans la petite ville de Harrington pour vivre avec sa riche tante, Polly Harrington. Pollyanna est jeune et gaie, se concentre sur la bonté de vie et, ainsi se fait de nombreux amis dans la communauté dont l'hypocondriaque M Snow et l'acide ermite M. Pendergast.
Battle Cry
Battle Cry (1955)
, 2h29
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter
Roles Mrs. Pat Rogers
Rating63% 3.1968553.1968553.1968553.1968553.196855
The film is a drama set in World War II, following a group of United States Marines from boot camp to combat (6th Marines, 2d Marine Division). It depicts the forming of comradeships and the relentless training which the battalion, led by Major "High Pockets" Huxley, has to undergo. In two battles (Guadalcanal and Tarawa), the battalion is used only for mop-up duties, but after an out-of-line argument between "High Pockets" and the commanding general, they are used as lead battalion in the battle for Saipan, suffering heavy casualties as they land on the exposed left flank of Red Beach. Huxley is killed and as they watch his body being carried off the field his grim-faced men fix bayonets ready to meet a Japanese counter-attack.
So Big
So Big (1953)
, 1h41
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Jane Wyman, Richard Beymer, Sterling Hayden, Steve Forrest, Nancy Olson, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Dallas O'Mara
Rating66% 3.340313.340313.340313.340313.34031
In the late 1890s, boarding school student Selina Peake learns of the death of her father, who has left her penniless as the result of bad business transactions. August Hempel, the father of her best friend Julie, secures her a teaching position in New Holland, a small Dutch farming community outside Chicago. There she rents a room in the home of Klaas Pool, who lives with his unhappy wife Maartje and intelligent but troubled adolescent son Roelf.
Big Jim McLain, 1h30
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Veda Ann Borg, Hans Conried
Roles Nancy Vallon
Rating52% 2.602362.602362.602362.602362.60236
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
Force of Arms, 1h39
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors William Holden, Nancy Olson, Gene Evans, Frank Lovejoy, Dick Wesson, Paul Picerni
Roles Lt. Eleanor Mackay
Rating64% 3.24523.24523.24523.24523.2452
After hard fighting in the Battle of San Pietro, the infantrymen of the American 36th Division are given five days of much needed rest. Sergeant Joe "Pete" Peterson (William Holden) meets WAC Lieutenant Eleanor "Ellie" MacKay (Nancy Olson) in a cemetery. However, his attempts to become better acquainted are brushed off. Later, Pete's friend and commanding officer, Major Blackford (Frank Lovejoy), tells him he has been given a battlefield commission and is now a second lieutenant.
Submarine Command, 1h27
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor, Moroni Olsen, Arthur Franz
Roles Carol
Rating61% 3.094363.094363.094363.094363.09436
Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction and thereby loses the captain of the boat on the last day of World War II. The bulk of the movie follows his career in the Navy after the war as his doubt and guilt wear on his marriage. Then, just as he is about to resign from the Navy to escape the ghosts of his past, the Korean War begins and the movie concludes as an action thriller.