Nancy Gates

Turner Classic Movies channel honored her career with a day featuring her films on November 4, 2019.

The other was as "Edith Barclay", the secretary to a small-town jeweler, in 1958's Some Came Running (1958).

In 1954, Nancy played "Ellen Benson", a woman whose home was commandeered by a would-be assassin (Frank Sinatra) of the President of the U. S.

, in Suddenly (1954).

In 1952, Nancy appeared in five films, beginning with Target Hong Kong (1953). Up to this point, the beautiful actress appeared mostly in character roles. Two of her finest performances did come in the Fifties.

However, after 1949, Nancy didn't appear in another film until she was 26 years old.

In 1948 she married William Hayes, a Hollywood lawyer and pilot, whom she met when she was a passenger on one of his flights.

The young actress was equally busy the following year with appearances in Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (1943) and This Land Is Mine (1943).

Her first production with that studio was in 1942's Hitler's Children (1943).

Nancy was also in two more films that year, those being The Great Gildersleeve (1942) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).

Nancy Gates was born February 1, 1926 in Dallas, Texas. She entered show business, at an early age, when she was signed to a contract with RKO Studios when she was 15.