Nancy Olson

Nancy Olson

Nancy Olson (born July 14, 1928) is an American screen, television, and stage actress. She was an Academy Award Best Supporting Actress nominee for her portrayal of Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (1950).

  • Title: Nancy Olson
  • Popularity: 1.0375
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-07-14
  • Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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  • Also Known As: Nancy Ann Olson, Nancy Olson-Livingston, Nancy Livingston, Nancy Olsen
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Nancy Olson Movies

  • 1950
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    Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard

    8.279 1950 HD

    A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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  • 1960
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    Pollyanna

    Pollyanna

    7 1960 HD

    A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

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  • 1972
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    Snowball Express

    Snowball Express

    6.7 1972 HD

    When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway, who wants the property, does everything he can to ensure it will fail.

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  • 1997
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    Flubber

    Flubber

    5.7 1997 HD

    Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

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  • 1974
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    Airport 1975

    Airport 1975

    5.8 1974 HD

    When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

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  • 1952
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    Big Jim McLain

    Big Jim McLain

    4.9 1952 HD

    House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

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  • 1950
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    Union Station

    Union Station

    6.5 1950 HD

    Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.

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  • 1949
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    Canadian Pacific

    Canadian Pacific

    5 1949 HD

    A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion.

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  • 2002
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    A Day in the Life of an Actress

    A Day in the Life of an Actress

    1 2002 HD

    Actress Nancy Olson details the average day of shooting for an actress.

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  • 2002
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    Pollyanna: The Making of a Masterpiece

    Pollyanna: The Making of a Masterpiece

    1 2002 HD

    Interviews with cast and crew members detail the making of the Disney classic.

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  • 2002
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    Recreating Pollyanna's America

    Recreating Pollyanna's America

    1 2002 HD

    Members of the cast and crew of Disney's Pollyanna, look back on location shooting in Santa Rosa.

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  • 1961
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    The Absent-Minded Professor

    The Absent-Minded Professor

    6.5 1961 HD

    Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.

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  • 1953
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    So Big

    So Big

    5.2 1953 HD

    A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.

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  • 1955
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    Battle Cry

    Battle Cry

    5.6 1955 HD

    The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.

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  • 1951
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    Force of Arms

    Force of Arms

    6.4 1951 HD

    During the winter of 1943, the German Army halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. On leave in Naples, Joe meets WAC lieutenant Eleanor MacKay; initially cool, she begins to melt during a bombing raid. Their romance develops despite Joe's periodic returns to the front. But whether he'll come back in the end becomes more than doubtful.

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  • 1950
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    Mr. Music

    Mr. Music

    4 1950 HD

    A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.

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  • 1951
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    Submarine Command

    Submarine Command

    5.6 1951 HD

    Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.

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  • 1969
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    Smith!

    Smith!

    5.5 1969 HD

    When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.

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  • 1954
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    The Boy from Oklahoma

    The Boy from Oklahoma

    5.2 1954 HD

    A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

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  • 1963
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    Son of Flubber

    Son of Flubber

    6 1963 HD

    Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.

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  • 1989
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    William Holden: The Golden Boy

    William Holden: The Golden Boy

    1 1989 HD

    It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

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  • 1982
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    Making Love

    Making Love

    6.8 1982 HD

    A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.

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  • 1996
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    Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

    Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

    1 1996 HD

    Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.

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  • 1987
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    Sparky's Magic Piano

    Sparky's Magic Piano

    5.9 1987 HD

    A boy becomes a virtuoso pianist, but when he gets too big-headed the piano decides to teach him a lesson.

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  • 1948
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    Portrait of Jennie

    Portrait of Jennie

    7.2 1948 HD

    A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

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  • 1998
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    Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

    Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

    6 1998 HD

    A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

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  • 1956
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    High Tor

    High Tor

    7.5 1956 HD

    High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.

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  • 2002
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    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back

    9 2002 HD

    Film critics, actors, film historians and other personalities share their experiences and curious stories on the acclaimed Billy Wilder's masterpiece "Sunset Blvd."; its cultural importance by being one of the most iconic and revolutionary films ever made and a picture that still stands the test of time.

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  • 1995
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    More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

    More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'

    7 1995 HD

    This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My Fair Lady," the classic musical about a poor young girl transformed into a woman of society through the tutoring of Prof. Henry Higgins. Includes footage of the filming process, as well as discussion by modern film critics about the impact movie had on later films.

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  • 1972
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    The Streets of San Francisco

    The Streets of San Francisco

    7 1972 HD

    Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.

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  • 1984
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    Paper Dolls

    Paper Dolls

    5.5 1984 HD

    Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine, her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper, and the careers of two teenage models. The series was based on a 1982 TV movie of the same name.

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  • 1955
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    Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

    6.7 1955 HD

    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6.4 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.8 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1977
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    Kingston: Confidential

    Kingston: Confidential

    5 1977 HD

    Kingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes during the spring of 1977, following the success of a 1976 made-for-TV movie entitled Kingston.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    6.3 1950 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1965
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    The Big Valley

    The Big Valley

    6.1 1965 HD

    The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

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  • 1963
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    Channing

    Channing

    7 1963 HD

    Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.

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  • 1954
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    Producers' Showcase

    Producers' Showcase

    6.5 1954 HD

    Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.

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  • 1972
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    Banacek

    Banacek

    8.6 1972 HD

    Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.8 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 2006
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    Big Love

    Big Love

    6.9 2006 HD

    The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.

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  • 1954
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    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.8 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.

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