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Harriet Nelson

Harriet Nelson

Acting
18 Jul 1909
02 Oct 1994
Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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...

Also Known As

Peggy Lou Snyder, Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Harriet Nelson

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