In an excerpt from her new memoir, Oscar-nominee Nancy Olson Livingston recounts the making of a masterpiece.
, Nancy Olson Livingston describes how as an acting student at UCLA, she is signed by Paramount and packs in a series of roles, some more appropriate to her age and ethnicity than others. Her work includes several films with William Holden as well as Billy Wilder’sfor which she receives an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. But Nancy, still in her early 20s in 1950, is frustrated with spending six days a week in dark sound studios and wants to experience a full life.
I told our cook and nanny that we were going to the country for the weekend and expected a visitor for lunch. Fritz arrived at one o’clock, and the three of us sat in our small pine-paneled, early-American dining room chatting away, and it was obvious that Fritz was delighted to be there. Fritz was intrigued, and the two of them were so deeply engrossed with Alan’s ideas that I might as well have been invisible. They got up from the table, left the dining room, walked out the front door, and crossed the road to the studio without even glancing at me, much less thanking me for lunch.
One particularly cold and stormy winter night I was awakened abruptly by Alan and Fritz shaking my bed, telling me I had to get up. I was alarmed, thinking perhaps the house was on fire, and where were my children?! They said the house and children were fine, but I had to get up and come to the studio to hear what they had just composed and written.
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