Harriet Nelson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1909-07-18 (85 years old)

Deathday

1994-10-02

Place of Birth

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Harriet Nelson

Biography

Harriet Nelson will always have a secure place alongside Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt in the "TV's Golden Age Mom Hall of Fame." For fourteen years, she, husband Ozzie Nelson, and their two boys, David Nelson and Ricky Nelson, were the quintessential role models of the '50s ideal nuclear family. Harriet, the daughter of actors, was practically born in a trunk. She made her debut amid the footlights at age 6 weeks with her parents. The Iowa beauty attended St. Agnes Academy in her early years. Quite a dazzler in her youth, she was playing vaudeville when she attracted the attention of saxophone-playing Ozzie Nelson and was hired b...

Acting

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1936

Follow the Fleet

as Connie Martin

1943

The Falcon Strikes Back

as Gwynne Gregory (as Harriet Hilliard)

1941

1979

A Christmas for Boomer

as Grandmother Sinclair

1937

The Life of the Party

as Mitzi Martos

1952

Here Come the Nelsons

as Harriet Nelson

1937

1938

Cocoanut Grove

as Linda Rogers

1979

1982

The First Time

as Charlotte

1941

1944

Hi, Good Lookin'!

as Kelly Clark

1983

1943

Hi, Buddy

as Gloria Bradley

1944

1943

Honeymoon Lodge

as Lorraine Logan aka Jenny Hockadayl

1944

Take It Big

as Jerry Clinton

1942

Canal Zone

as Susan Merrill

1942

Juke Box Jenny

as Genevieve Horton

1943

Gals, Incorporated

as Gwen Phillips (as Harriet Hilliard)

1976

1984

High School U.S.A.

as Mrs. Crosley

1959

1932

The Campus Mystery

as Wanda Perry

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