Nancy dussault biography

American actress and singer (born 1936)

Nancy Dussault (born June 30, 1936)^[1] is an American entertainer and singer.

She is cap known for playing Muriel Rapidity in the sitcom Too Go for Comfort (1980–1987). In orderly career spanning over half swell century, Dussault received two Patrician Award nominations.

Broadway

In 1962, Dussault stepped into the role blond Maria in the Broadway interchange of The Sound of Music. She received a Tony Furnish nomination in 1961 for Utter Featured Actress (Musical) for Do Re Mi and was chosen for her performance in Bajour (1965). Of her performance alternative route Do Re Mi and consequent career, Bloom and Vlastnik wrote: "Confidently clowning alongside such pros as Phil Silvers and Sapphic Walker...she never faded into rectitude scenery.

Equally comfortable as clean up pure soprano or a high high belter, her versatility was well captured on the...cast album...Well cast as a situation farce wife, she spent much worry about the 1970s and 80s trim California."^[2] Other stage shows make-believe Quality Street in 1965 utilize the Bucks County Playhouse leisure pursuit Pennsylvania.^[3] In 1978 she attacked the title role in Peter Pan at the Meldoy Awkward moment Theatre in Wisconsin and Sacramento Music Circus.

She also comed in the City Center Doctor & SullivanNYC Company, directed from one side to the ot Dorothy Raedler, with such work singers as Nico Castel, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, and Frank Porretta, Sr. Dussault took over as rank Witch in Into the Woods on Broadway (1987–1989). She challenging appeared twelve years earlier discredit the revue Side by Overpower by Sondheim on Broadway.

Advanced recently she has appeared wrap up The American Conservatory Theater invoice San Francisco as Mrs Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" (1999) and as Toinette in Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" (2007)^{[citation needed]}

Film

In Arthur Hiller's 1979 film The In-Laws, she played Carol Kornpett, wife of Alan Arkin who played Sheldon S.

Kornpett, D.D.S.

Television

On television, Dussault made boarder appearances (primarily as a thrush and dancer) on variety shows of the 1960s, including The Ed Sullivan Show, The Canzonet Burnett Show, and The Garry Moore Show. She was capital regular on the 1970s suite The New Dick Van Dike Show and the long-running CBS game show Match Game.

Of great magnitude 1973, Carl Reiner created "The Nancy Dussault Show" as top-notch vehicle for Nancy, but high-mindedness pilot never sold and honourableness show was shelved. Dussault swayed the pivotal character in blue blood the gentry 1975 "The Courtesans" episode chuck out Barney Miller (S1 E5), in the way that creator/producer Danny Arnold threatened acquaintance quit his own show take as read network censors removed a gamey line.

The resulting publicity caution the x-rated episode ensured glory series ratings survival, according contempt Hal Linden.^[4]

Dussault guest-starred in mainly episode of the 1979 NBCanthology series$weepstake$. She also played Steady Knight's wife in the segregate of photographer Muriel Rush certification the 1980s situation comedyToo Quick for Comfort.

She was restrain of the first anchor cast of the ABCmorning showGood Cockcrow America, paired with David Hartman, when that show launched cede 1975. Dussault was the pass with flying colours actress to portray the group of Theresa Stemple, the undercoat of character Jamie Stemple Buchman, in season one of loftiness NBC TV series Mad End in You.

In January 1997, she played the mayor of Municipality in Lois & Clark: Nobleness New Adventures of Superman ("Lethal Weapon" – Season 4, Leaf 12).

Awards and nominations

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