Barbara nichols wikipedia
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Barbara Nichols
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She was the archetypal brassy, bosomy, Brooklynesque blonde with a highly-distinctive scratchy voice. Barbara Nichols started life as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Queens, New York on December 10, 1928, and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, she changed her reddish-brown hair to platinum-blonde and worked as a post-war model and burlesque dancer. As a beauty contestant, she won the "Miss Long Island" title as well as the dubious crowns of "Miss Dill Pickle", "Miss Mink of 1953", and "Miss Welder of 1953", and also became a GI pin-up favorite. She began to draw early attention on stage (particularly in the musical "Pal Joey") and in television drama.
Barbara found herself stealing focus in small wisecracking roles, managing at times to draw both humor and pathos from her characters--sometimes simultaneously. She seemed fated to play strippers, gold-diggers, barflies, gun molls, and other floozy types, but she made the best of her stereotypes, taking full advantage of the not-so-bad films that
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Barbara Nichols (1928 - 1976) باربارا نيكولز
An American actress, born in Queens, New York City on December 10, 1928. Barbara Nichols grew up in Long Island and graduated from Wilson High School. In the late 1940s, she worked...Read more as a dancer in a famous New York City nightclub, and in 1953, she won many local beauty pageants and started working in musical theater, which led her to television, in addition to playing many small roles in films. The year 1957 was a turning point in her career, as she appeared in the successful films Pal Joey, The Sweet Smell of Success, and The Pajama Game. Despite her success in cinema, she returned to television, and performed in several plays, in addition to some low-budget films. She got into serious auto accidents in 1957 and again in 1960, which affected her health, and in turn her career. Barbara Nichols was nominated for a Golden Laurel Award in 1958 for her role in Sweet Smell of Success. Her most notable work includes Pal Joey (1957), The Pajama Game (1957), and Where the Boys Are (1960). She died on October 5, 1976, in Ho
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