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Nancy Kovack
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A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and then, more prominently, on The Dave Garroway Show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock (1950). A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix (1967). The wife of world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly a…
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A native of Flint, Michigan, Nancy Kovack was a student at the University of Michigan at 15, a radio deejay at 16, a college graduate at 19 and the holder of eight beauty titles by 20. Her professional acting career began on television in New York, first as one of Jackie Gleason's "Glea Girls" and then, more prominently, on The Dave Garroway Show (1953), Today (1952) and Beat the Clock (1950). A stage role opened Hollywood doors for Kovack, who signed with Columbia. She later racked up an impressive list of episodic television credits, and was Emmy-nominated for a 1969 guest shot on Mannix (1967). The wife of world-renowned maestro Zubin Mehta of New York Philharmonic fame, Kovack publicly alleges that she was recently bamboozled (to the tune of $150,000) by Susan McDougal, a central figure in the Whitewater scandal.
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Nancy Kovack's Filmography
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self/Sheila Sommers (archive footage)
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
as Annie Oakley (archive footage)
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
as Monica Gray
Marooned
as Teresa Stone
Our Town's Hero
The Night of Angels
Enter Laughing
as Miss Laura B
Diamond 33
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
as Sophia Renault
Frankie and Johnny
as Nellie Bly
The Silencers
as Barbara
The Great Sioux Massacre
as Libbie Custer
Sylvia
as Big Shirley
The Outlaws Is Coming
as Annie Oakley
Jason and the Argonauts
as Medea
Diary of a Madman
as Odette Mallotte
The Wild Westerners
as Rose Sharon
Cry for Happy
as Camille Cameron
Strangers When We Meet
as Marcia