Lori Nelson
Actor
Biography
Lori Nelson was an American actress born in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 15, 1933. She began as a performer, dancing at the young age of 4, as well as winning a Little Miss America title. Many of her early auditions were unsuccessful. However, in 1952, she made it into her first role as Marjie Baile in Bend of the River. Many of her roles were large, but were mostly in 1950s B-movies. Today, she is acting sparingly, most recently in The Naked Monster. She costarred with Barbara Eden in the series How to Marry a Millionaire (1957–1959). However, she also had a well-remembered role as Mara, the Mayor's daughter, opposite Van Johnson (who played two roles) in the 1957 made-for-TV musical film The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a motion picture which premiered on NBC and then went on to be syndicated and shown annually on local television stations.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Lori Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Revenge of the Creature
as Helen Dobson 1955
Day the World Ended
as Louise Madison 1955
Pardners
as Carol Kingsley 1956
All I Desire
as Lily Murdoch 1953
Destry
as Martha Phillips 1954
I Died a Thousand Times
as Velma 1955
Untamed Youth
as Jane Lowe 1957
Underwater!
as Gloria 1955
Tumbleweed
as Laura Saunders 1953
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
as Mara 1957
Mohawk
as Cynthia Stanhope 1956
Francis Goes to West Point
as Barbara Atwood 1952
The Naked Monster
as Dr. Helen Dobson 2005
Hot Rod Girl
as Lisa Vernon 1956
Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle
as Self 2000
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Rosie Kettle 1952