1. Dixie Kay Nelson, known professionally as Lori Nelson, was an American actress and model mostly active in the 1950s and early 1960s.
17 Facts About Lori Nelson
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Lori Nelson had roles in the TV series How to Marry a Millionaire and the films Revenge of the Creature, All I Desire, and I Died a Thousand Times.
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Lori Nelson's father was superintendent of the American Metal Mine Company in Tererro, New Mexico.
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Lori Nelson began her career at the age of two, appearing in local theater productions.
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At age seven, Nelson contracted rheumatic fever which left her bedridden for four years.
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Lori Nelson made her film debut in the 1952 Western Bend of the River.
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In 1955, Lori Nelson guest starred in two episodes of It's a Great Life, and reprised her role as "Rosie Kettle" in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki.
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Lori Nelson's supporting roles in films included the low-budget sci-fi story Day the World Ended, directed by Roger Corman, and a big-budget Paramount Pictures comedy-Western, Pardners, starring Martin and Lewis in one of their final films together.
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Lori Nelson had a featured role in I Died a Thousand Times, a 1955 remake of High Sierra, as well as in 1954's Destry, a remake of Destry Rides Again.
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Lori Nelson was one of the leads in an 18th-century adventure story Mohawk.
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Lori Nelson had top billing in the street-racing film Hot Rod Girl, starring Chuck Connors, and the following year she co-starred opposite Mamie Van Doren as law-breakers sentenced to work on a "punishment" farm in Untamed Youth.
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In November 1957, Lori Nelson co-starred with Van Johnson in the TV movie The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which aired as a Thanksgiving Day special.
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Lori Nelson opted to leave the series after the first season, and her character was written out.
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Lori Nelson took a 10-year break from acting in 1961 and returned with a guest role in Family Affair in 1971.
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On December 10,1960, Lori Nelson married composer and singing group leader Johnny Mann in Los Angeles.
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Lori Nelson died on August 23,2020, at her home in Porter Ranch, Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Lori Nelson suffered from Alzheimer's disease for several years before her death.