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Post by teleadm on Jul 14, 2018 8:07:43 GMT
Happy 90th Birthday Nancy Olson!!!  Born on July 14, 1928 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Thanks for everything, so far...semi-retired American-born actress of Swedish descent, who in the early 1950's was prominent in Paramount productions.  Discovered on stage after transferring to California's UCLA from University of Wisconsin, the pretty blonde was quickly signed by Paramount Studios by a talent scout in 1948 and almost immediately had a built-up after an un-billed part in Portrait of Jennie 1948. Olson was nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for Sunset Boulevard 1950. Between 1950 and 1957 she was married to lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and is said to have been the inspiration to the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" in My Fair Lady when their marriage was breaking up. Some samples from her career:  Canadian Pacific 1949, first billed part, as Randolph Scott's characters girlfriend.  Sunset Boulevard 1950 promotion pic, with William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim.  Union Station 1950, once again with William Holden.  Mr Music 1950, with Bing Crosby  Big Jim McLain 1952, with John Wayne, a movie for which she detested the politics of, but on the other hand a few weeks on Hawaii didn't sounds so bad.  Battle Cry 1955 lobby card, with Aldo Ray  Pollyanna 1960, with Hayley Mills  The Absent-Minded Professor 1961, with Fred MacMurray  Snowball Express 1972  One of the many passangers on this unfortunate flight, as Linda Blair's mother.   Nancy Olson has acted in 44 movies and television productions.    |
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Post by petrolino on Jul 14, 2018 15:08:06 GMT
Happy Birthday Nancy Olson!
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; there's a lot of Americans of Swedish descent in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and the Dakotas (my favorite actress Linnea Quigley is of Swedish descent and comes from Davenport, Iowa - perhaps named by her Swedish mother like famous actress Linnea Hillberg). Linnea Johnson, the poet from Chicago, Illinois, wrote 'Swedish Christmas'. There are towns scattered throughout the midwest that celebrate Swedish heritage.
Swedish Gateways
Vasa Order Of America
Linnea in the fields
Nancy Olson
Nancy Dolls
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Post by teleadm on Jul 14, 2018 17:13:46 GMT
petrolino thank you so much in explaining Swedishnesh influence on American culture, from my heart! Nikolina sung by Olle I Skratthult, early Swedish entertainer that Swedes had never heard of, untill the 1950s, you can hear how he sings some words very American
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Post by petrolino on Jul 14, 2018 18:27:01 GMT
petrolino thank you so much in explaining Swedishnesh influence on American culture, from my heart! Nikolina sung by Olle I Skratthult, early Swedish entertainer that Swedes had never heard of, untill the 1950s, you can hear how he sings some words very American I like that tune, thanks. 
You see some Swedish influence in the Coen Brothers' films, drawn from their lives in Minnesota. Today, it's great to see how Scandinavian influence in America is widely celebrated. It's brought a lot to the culture and diversity of the American midwest. The new stadium recently built for the Minnesota Vikings is the envy of the football league - Scandinavians helped make the Minnesota lumber trade the envy of the world.
I've read a bit from Pennsylvanian writers about when New Sweden was established, which was centuries before Swedes populated the American midwest in such significant numbers looking for labour jobs and business opportunities.
"In December 1637, Peter Minuit and his settlers began their trip across the Atlantic from Goethenburg, Sweden. The travelers landed on the banks of the Delaware in the spring of 1638, disembarked, and met with the local Native Americans to purchase the land. Minuit and his Lenape translator, Andres Lucassen, met with Mattahorn, Mitatsemint, Eru Packen, Mohomen, and Chiton, the five local Lenape Chiefs and purchased sixty-seven miles of Delaware River frontage, centering around Minquas Kill, and extending as far west as the “setting sun.” With title in hand the Swedes began building their first outpost, Fort Christina, which today would sit in Wilmington, Delaware.
After constructing the fort, Minuit boarded his ship, in June 1639, and set sail for Gothenburg to let the Swedish government know that they now had a colony in the New World. At Fort Christina, Minuit left behind twenty-three soldiers, Antonius, a black slave, and the colony’s first Commissioner, Hendrick Huygen. Unlike the English settlers of New England and Virginia, the Swedes were fortunate to settle in an area where the Native Americans were sedentary and had huge farms. After establishing good trading relations with the Algonquin tribes, most notably the Lenape and Minquas, the Swedes were able to buy Indian corn, apples, plums, watermelons, grapes, beans, turkeys, geese, fish, venison, moose, and bear to make it through their first season.
In the spring of 1640, the second Swedish expedition landed with supplies, more soldiers, a chaplain, colonists, goods to be traded with the Indians, and the new Governor, Peter Hollender Ridder. Ridder was pivotal in the colony’s expansion. Though the Swedes had more than enough land for its small population, Ridder insisted on expanding the colony’s boundaries. With the aid of some soldiers and a sloop, Ridder sailed north on the Delaware River and defiantly passed the Dutch Fort Nassau, located in present-day Gloucester City, New Jersey. Well beyond Fort Nassau, Ridder met with the local Indian chiefs and bought a title to the land from the Schuylkill tributary to Trenton, New Jersey.
Today, the combined purchases of Minuit and Ridder would comprise one hundred and twenty miles of land on both banks of the Delaware, from just north of Trenton, New Jersey to as far south as Wilmington, Delaware—including the land that the Dutch Fort Nassau sat on."
- Elizabeth Covart, 'New Sweden : A Brief History'
I think the first time I really became aware of Swedes in the old West was watching Walter Hill's western 'The Long Riders' (1980) as a kid and wondering about the accent / dialect of a smart, suited, Swedish gentleman who aggravates Cole Younger (David Carradine) over the sale of a horse (the Younger gang are just about to hit a bank). Scandinavians were sometimes derogatorily referred to as "squareheads".
"A large number of Scandinavians who were Mormon converts moved to Utah during the second half of the 1800s. They were mostly Danish and Swedish. As I recall, there was even a Danish-language newspaper printed for a lot of years in Pleasant Grove, Utah. I've seen mine payrolls from the 1880s and 90s in some spots like southern Utah that were full of Finns working at a silver mine. (I have a recording of my great-grandpa who lived as a kid in a mining town that after school on paydays they'd go watch the Finns get drunk and fight.) Some of them brought their families. I recall reading somewhere that mining companies often would advertise in Europe for jobs for their mines in the US west. They employed their own immigration agents just for that purpose."
- Alfredo Einsteino, Reddit Ask/History
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 19:25:38 GMT
She's still knocking around? Really liked her in Sunset Blvd.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jul 15, 2018 15:13:05 GMT
Happy birthday! Is it weird that I know her mainly from Snowball Express (1972)? A teacher in school showed us the movie and I had the novelization of that movie.  Then, much later, I started watching classic films and found her all over the place. Nancy Olson movies I've seen: Sunset Boulevard
The Absent Minded-Professor
Son of Flubber
Snowball Express
Airport 1975
Making Love
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Post by politicidal on Jul 15, 2018 15:29:50 GMT
She sort of reminds me of Vera Miles for some reason.
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