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Nancy Davis
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Actor Born: July 6, 1921 in New York, NY Biography:It isn't likely that "Nancy Davis" will be remembered by posterity as a film actress, though this was the career she pursued with moderate success from 1949 to 1958. Educated at Smith College, "Davis" decided to emulate her mother, a former actress, by trying her luck in the theater. Her first professional engagement was as the kidnapped ingénue who wandered through the action in a daze while clad in a flimsy nightgown in "ZaSu Pitts"' touring stage vehicle Ramshackle Inn. Signed to an MGM contract in 1949, she essayed supporting roles in such films as "East Side West Side" (1949) and "Shadow on the Wall" (1951) before graduating to leads. Perhaps her best screen assignment was "The Next Voice You Hear" (1951) in which she played a pregnant housewife whose life is profoundly altered when the voice of God is heard over the radio. Distressed by the Red Scare sweeping through Hollywood in the early '50s,... Full Biography
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