Harriet Nelson

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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, Eric or 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.

In the 1980s she lived in Laguna Beach, Calif.

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.

[edit] Filmography

• 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)

[edit] External links

• Harriet Hilliard at the Internet Movie Database (AKA Harriet Nelson)
• Harriet Nelson at Find A Grave