In 1937, as "Nan Barto", Nancy Walker appeared on the NBC radio programs Coast to Coast on a Bus and Our Barn.
19 Facts About Nancy Walker
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Nancy Walker made her Broadway debut in 1941 in Best Foot Forward.
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Nancy Walker appeared with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the second film version of Girl Crazy.
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Nancy Walker was nominated for a Tony Award in 1956 for her work in the musical revue Phoenix '55, and again in 1960 for her performance in Do Re Mi, opposite Phil Silvers.
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Nancy Walker starred in the short-lived Broadway musical comedy Copper and Brass in 1957, and appeared in the 1958 New York City Center production of Wonderful Town.
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Nancy Walker's career spanned five decades and included comedies, dramas, and television variety shows such as Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, The Garry Moore Show, and The Carol Burnett Show.
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Nancy Walker thereafter became an annual guest star on the show for the next three years.
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In 1976, ABC-TV offered Walker a contract to headline her own series, The Nancy Walker Show, which was produced by Norman Lear's production company, in which she starred as Nancy Kittredge, a talent agent.
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Nancy Walker appeared on a second-season episode of The Muppet Show.
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Nancy Walker continued to remain active in show business until her death, playing Rosie, a New Jersey diner waitress in a series of commercials for Bounty paper towels from 1970 to 1990.
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Nancy Walker helped make the product's slogan, "the quicker picker-upper", a common catchphrase.
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Nancy Walker credited the towel commercials with landing her the role of Ida Morgenstern.
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In 1990, Nancy Walker began starring on the Fox sitcom True Colors as Sara Bower, the outspoken mother of Ellen Davis Freeman, who moves into Ellen's household despite having objections to her daughter's interracial marriage.
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In 1990, Nancy Walker appeared as herself in the Columbo episode "Uneasy Lies the Crown".
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Nancy Walker had guest starred as Rhoda's mother Ida Morgenstern in several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and continued that role in its spin-off Rhoda.
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In 1980, Nancy Walker made her feature-film directorial debut, directing disco group The Village People and Olympian Bruce Jenner in the pseudoautobiographical musical Can't Stop the Music.
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Nancy Walker died in 1992, aged 69, of lung cancer, in Studio City, California.
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Nancy Walker remarried, to musical theater teacher David Craig on January 29,1951.
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Nancy Walker was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.