Miriam Nelson
Crew
Born 1922-09-21
Died 2018-08-12
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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.
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Filmography
The Lucy Show
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Double Indemnity
Alice in Wonderland
Cat Ballou
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Cactus Flower
Cover Girl
Ike
Murderers' Row
Sunset
Hawaii
Tea for Two
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Great Bank Robbery
I'll Take Sweden
Visit to a Small Planet
Hail the Conquering Hero
I'd Rather Be Rich
A New Kind of Love
Lullaby of Broadway
High Time
The Restless Breed
Let's Face It
Duffy's Tavern
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
Kitty
Honeymoon Hotel
The Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review
Out of the Cold
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
The Third Girl from the Left
Masquerade in Mexico
Bring Your Smile Along
He Laughed Last
Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey
Public Pigeon No. 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic
The Young Lovers
Trouble Comes to Town
A Golightly Gathering
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