© Copyright Harutyunyan 2024

sunfilm-logo
Home/Miriam Nelson
Miriam Nelson‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1922-09-21

Popularity

star0.5

Miriam Nelson

Miriam Nelson

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1922-09-21

Popularity

star0.5

Biography

Miriam Lois Frankel was born in Chicago on Sept. 21, 1919, the only child of Daniel Frankel, a salesman who later produced nightclub shows, and Miriam Elizabeth (Bly) Frankel, a seamstress who went on to a show-business wardrobe department career. At 19 she made her Broadway debut, in Sing Out the News (1938), a musical revue, with June Allyson, whose songs included Sing Ho for Private Enterprise. In 1941, two weeks after Pearl Harbor, she married Gene Nelson, a fellow dancer and actor. They moved to Los Angeles, and good luck followed. Having lunch at Paramount one day with a friend, she ran into a New York pal and came home with a seven-year acting-dancing contract. Ms. Nelson’s onscreen appearances included Lady in the Dark (1944), a straight acting role as Edward G. Robinson’s secretary in Double Indemnity (1944) and versatile dance work in Duffy’s Tavern (1945). After the Nelsons divorced in 1956, she took up choreography full time. Her television projects included The Red Skelton Hour, Father Knows Best, The Lucy Show, The Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote. Ms. Nelson’s first credited big-screen choreography was on Blake Edwards’s He Laughed Last (1956), a crime comedy about a chorus girl. Her final screen credit was Out of the Cold, a romantic drama starring Keith Carradine, released on DVD in 2001.

Movie Credits

A Golightly Gathering

A Golightly Gathering‌
star0.0
calendar 2009

The Two Lives of Carol Letner

The Two Lives of Carol Letner‌
star0.0
calendar 1981

Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic

Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic‌
star8.0
calendar 2006

Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey

Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey‌
star8.0
calendar 2014

Let's Face It

Let's Face It‌
star4.5
calendar 1943

Cover Girl

Cover Girl‌
star6.4
calendar 1944

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity‌
star8.1
calendar 1944

Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero‌
star7.0
calendar 1944

Duffy's Tavern

Duffy's Tavern‌
star6.1
calendar 1945

Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico‌
star5.4
calendar 1945

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's‌
star7.7
calendar 1961

Kitty

Kitty‌
star5.5
calendar 1945

Tv Credits

The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show‌
star7.1
calendar 1962