Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson (
née Hilliard) was an American singer and actress.
Born
Peggy Lou Snyder in
Des Moines, Iowa on
July 18,
1909, to Roy Hilliard Snyder and Hazel Dell McNutt; by 1932 she was performing in
vaudeville when she met the saxophone-playing
Ozzie Nelson and was hired by him as vocalist for his orchestra.
They married three years later and with him and their children,
Ricky Nelson and
David Nelson, she starred in the highly popular radio and television series
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet between
1944 and
1966 and it is that for which she is best known, despite the movies and singing career.
She died of congestive heart failure on
October 2,
1994, at the age of 85.
She is interred with her husband and younger son Ricky (who died in a plane crash) in the
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in
Los Angeles, California.
*The Kid with the 200 IQ (1983)
*The First Time (1982)
*A Christmas for Boomer (1979)
*Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
*Five Finger Discount (1977)
*Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
*"Once an Eagle" (1976)
*"Ozzie's Girls" (1973)
*"
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (1952)
*Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
*Take It Big (1944)
*Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944)
*Swingtime Johnny (1943)
*Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
*Gals, Incorporated (1943)
*The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
*Hi, Buddy (1943)
*Juke Box Jenny (1942)
*Canal Zone (1942)
*Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
*Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
*Cocoanut Grove (1938)
*The Life of the Party (1937)
*New Faces of 1937 (1937)
*Follow the Fleet (1936)
*The Campus Mystery (1932)
* (AKA Harriet Nelson)
*
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