Nancy Olson (born July 14, 1928, Milwaukee) is an American actress best known for playing Betty Schaefer in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950), a role that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She co-starred with William Holden in four films and later appeared in several Disney productions in the 1960s. In 2022 she published a memoir, A Front Row Seat, recounting her decades in Hollywood.
Nancy Olson celebrated her 98th birthday; media recalled her seven-decade career and the fact that she is the last living star of Sunset Boulevard.
Paramount released a restored version of Sunset Boulevard in 4K Ultra HD; Olson gave interviews to Deadline and IndieWire on the occasion of the film's 75th anniversary.
The restored version of Sunset Boulevard premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently shown in more than 1,000 American cinemas as part of Fathom's Big Screen Classics series.
Olson recalled the 1951 Academy Awards ceremony in the podcast The Hollywood Reporter's It Happened in Hollywood and explained why she decided to leave Hollywood.
Olson published her memoirs A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour (University Press of Kentucky).
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