
Miriam Nelson
Known for CrewBorn 1922-09-21Died 2018-08-12
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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The Third Girl from the Left
1973 · Movie
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The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1981 · Movie
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Darcey Bussell: Looking for Audrey
2014 · Movie
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: The Making of a Classic
2006 · Movie
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Trouble Comes to Town
1973 · Movie
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Double Indemnity
1944 · Movie
★ 7.7View details →
He Laughed Last
1956 · Movie
★ 7.6View details →
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · Movie
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Cactus Flower
1969 · Movie
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Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978 · Movie
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The Lucy Show
1962 · Series
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Alice in Wonderland
1985 · Series
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Ike
1979 · Movie
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Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · Movie
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Out of the Cold
1999 · Movie
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The Great Bank Robbery
1969 · Movie
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I'd Rather Be Rich
1964 · Movie
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Bring Your Smile Along
1955 · Movie
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Cat Ballou
1965 · Movie
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High Time
1960 · Movie
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969 · Movie
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Hawaii
1966 · Movie
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979 · Movie
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Public Pigeon No. 1
1957 · Movie
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Cover Girl
1944 · Movie
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A New Kind of Love
1963 · Movie
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Duffy's Tavern
1945 · Movie
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Tea for Two
1950 · Movie
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Sunset
1988 · Movie
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Lullaby of Broadway
1951 · Movie
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Masquerade in Mexico
1945 · Movie
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Murderers' Row
1966 · Movie
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Kitty
1945 · Movie
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The Restless Breed
1957 · Movie
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Visit to a Small Planet
1960 · Movie
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Let's Face It
1943 · Movie
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I'll Take Sweden
1965 · Movie
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Honeymoon Hotel
1964 · Movie
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The Young Lovers
1964 · Movie

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A Golightly Gathering
2009 · Movie
The Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review
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The Stan Freberg Federal Budget Review
1982 · Movie