Nancy Walker

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Nancy Walker (born Anna Myrtle Swoyer, May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress and comedian of stage, film, and television.

She was also a film and television producer (such as of The Mary Tyler Moore Exhibition, on which she made several guest appearances).

Mildred on McMillan & Wife and Ida Morgenstern, who appeared on numerous episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later became a common recurring character on the spinoff series Rhoda, may be best remembered for her five-decade long career.

Early life

Walker was born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the elder of two children of vaudevillian Dewey Barto (né Stewart Swoyer) and Myrtle Flemming Lawler, a dancer. In 1919, the couple met in Manhattan. Walker and her father were both 4'11" (1.50 m). Betty Lou Barto, her younger sister, was a child of Betty Lou Barto.

Personal life

Walker was married twice. Joseph Garland Moore Jr., also known as Gar Moore, was her first husband, who married on August 1, 1948. They divorced within ten months. On January 29, 1951, she remarried to musical theater teacher David Craig. Craig died of lung cancer at the age of 75 in 1998. Miranda Craig, an advertising copywriter who died at the age of 47 from undisclosed causes, was the couple's daughter.

Walker was also a close friend of actor Montgomery Clift. The two first met in 1948, but not until ten years later, after Clift's tragic car crash. Walker's friendship, according to Bosworth, was a sign of mutual help; others were left alone; "I liked his face better after the accident; his strength shone through." Clift nicknamed friends for whom he felt a special affection, and he referred to Walker "Nanny."

During the 1952 presidential election, Walker endorsed Adlai Stevenson's campaign.

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Acting career

Walker, a "Nan Barto" Walker, appeared on NBC radio shows Coast to Coast in 1937 as "Nan Barto." In 1941, she made her Broadway debut in Best Foot Forward. Walker made her film debut when she signed a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943, starring Lucille Ball. In the second film version of Girl Crazy (1943), she appeared alongside Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Walker's MGM debut, "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet," was her next film, in which she had a starring musical number backed by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.

Hildy Eszterhazy ("I Can Cook, Too!") was her dry comedian appearance that enabled her to continue acting into the 1940s and 1950s, including the role of Hildy Eszterhazy ("I Can Cook, Too!"). I'm Dancin' in On the Town (1944) and Lily Malloy in Look Ma. On Broadway, 1948. In 1956, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in Phoenix's musical revue, as well as in 1960 for her appearance in Do Re Mi, opposite Phil Silvers.

Walker appeared in the short-lived Broadway musical comedy Copper and Brass in 1957, and he also appeared in the 1958 New York City Center production of Wonderful Town. She appeared again opposite Silvers in early 1970s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, portraying Domina. She was unable to travel to Broadway due to her television work obligations. Walker's musical appearances culminated in record releases, including "I Hate Men (1959), with Sid Bass and his band; "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" and "You Irritate Me So"; on the front page, she whimsically stuck male dolls with pins.

Hundreds of television celebrity appearances and recurring roles followed, providing her with steady work. Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, dramas, and television variety shows such as Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, The Garry Moore Show, and The Carol Burnett Exhibition were among her five decades.

She appeared in two episodes of NBC's The Tab Hunter Show in the 1960-61 television season. Emily, the housekeeper, appeared on the television show Family Affair, which starred Brian Keith in 1970. The ratings of Family Affair had plummeted opposite NBC's popular The Flip Wilson Show, and the series was cancelled at the end of the season.

She made her first appearance on Ida Morgenstern, the mother of Valerie Harper's character Rhoda Morgenstern on the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The role was deemed "ideal" for her. The episode, "Support Your Local Mother," starring James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, was so well received that it earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in a Comedy Series. Walker then remained a regular guest on the show for the next three years. Walker appeared in 41 episodes of the MTM spinoff series Rhoda premiered in 1974.

Mildred, the McMillans' housekeeper, appeared on McMillan & Wife from 1971 to 1976. Walker was not on display every week during Rhoda's first two years, so she was able to move back and forth between the CBS sitcom and the NBC detective series. Her seven Emmy Award nominations came as a result of these two performances. Walker was given a contract to headline her own series, The Nancy Walker Show, which was produced by Norman Lear's production company, in which she appeared as Nancy Kittredge, a talent agent. Walker appeared in a second-season episode of The Muppet Show.

Walker made her first appearance on Rhoda in 1976-77 before filming the first episode of the series. Rhoda (Valerie Harper) and her partner Joe (David Groh) decide to separate in the season premiere. Rhoda continues to receive updates from her mother, Ida (Walker), as Ida prepares for a year-long trip through America with Rhoda's dad (Harold Gould). Ida discovers the truth from Rhoda prior to Ida's departure.

Garry Marshall jumped for Walker's Beauties, Blansky's Beauties, right away. The main character of the series was revealed a week before the series premiere in a Happy Days episode. Walker appeared on ABC-TV in February 1977, playing Nancy Blansky, den mother to a group of Las Vegas showgirls. In May 1977, it didn't have a following and was cancelled in May 1977, giving Walker the unenviable distinction of being in two failed series in the same year. She returned to Rhoda at the start of the 1977–78 season (giving the show a much-needed boost in the ratings, which had dropped the previous year) and the show stayed with the series for the remainder of the series. She began directing, including episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, 13 Queens Boulevard, and Alice.

In the 1976 all-star comedy spoof Murder by Death, one of Walker's last major film roles was in Murder by Death, one of his last major film appearances. Rosie, a New Jersey diner waitress, appeared in a string of commercials for Bounty paper towels from 1970 to 1990, she continued to be active in show business until her death, playing Rosie, a New Jersey diner waitress. She helped create the product's tagline, "the quicker picker-upper," a common catchphrase. She owed the towel companies with her success in the role of Ida Morgenstern.

The recurring role of Aunt Angela, Sophia Petrillo's (Estelle Getty) widowed sister on The Golden Girls, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination was one of her final guest appearances in a television series. Susan Harris, the Golden Girls creator, then starred Walker opposite Bruce Weitz in her NBC sitcom program Mama's Boy, which aired as six comedy specials from 1985 to 1988, but never reached television stardom.

Sara Bower, Ellen Davis Freeman's outspoken mother who moves into Ellen's household despite having reservations about her daughter's interracial marriage, appeared on Fox sitcom True Colors in 1990. Walker appeared as herself in the Columbo episode "Uneasy Lies the Crown" in 1990.

Directing career

In several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, she appeared as Rhoda's mother Ida Morgenstern, and in its spin-off Rhoda. Walker narrated several episodes of both series and other situations comedies after establishing the character.

Walker made her film directorial debut in 1980, directing disco group The Village People and Olympian Caitlyn Jenner in the pseudoautobiographical musical Can't Stop the Music. The film was a box-office disappointment and Walker's sole feature-film directorial credit. She did some stage and television directing, as well as three episodes of Alice's situation comedy.

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