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Actor Born: July 14, 1928 in Milwaukee, WI Biography:The daughter of a Milwaukee physician, "Nancy Olson" attended UCLA, then briefly acted on stage before signing a Paramount Pictures contract in 1949. Her best screen assignment at Paramount was as self-effacing script clerk Betty Schaffer in "Billy Wilder"'s "Sunset Boulevard". She went on to be teamed with her "Boulevard" co-star "William Holden" in "Union Station" (1950), "Force of Arms" (1951) and "Submarine Command" (1951). Olson briefly retired in the mid-1950s when she married songwriter "Alan Jay Lerner" (they later divorced; her second husband was record executive Alan Livingston). In 1960, Olson went back before the cameras as Betty Carlisle, ever-patient fiance of would-be inventor Ned Brainard ("Fred MacMurray") in Disney's The Absent Minded Professor; she repeated this characterization in the 1963 sequel "Son of Flubber". She went on to do a smattering of TV films, including the 1967... Full Biography
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