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Nancy Guild (October 11, 1925 – August 16, 1999) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. The actress appeared in Somewhere in the Night (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947) and the comedy Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). Though appearing in major films, Guild never achieved as much fame as 20th Century Fox, the studio that had signed her to a seven-year contract, had hoped for, and eventually gave up acting to marriage.
Guild was a University of Arizona freshman when a Life magazine photographer noticed her. After the picture was published in a spread on... MORE
Nancy Guild (October 11, 1925 – August 16, 1999) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. The actress appeared in Somewhere in the Night (1946); The Brasher Doubloon (1947) and the comedy Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). Though appearing in major films, Guild never achieved as much fame as 20th Century Fox, the studio that had signed her to a seven-year contract, had hoped for, and eventually gave up acting to marriage.
Guild was a University of Arizona freshman when a Life magazine photographer noticed her. After the picture was published in a spread on campus fashions, five Hollywood studios screen-tested her, and she was signed by Fox. The studio's publicity writers declared "Guild rhymes with wild!" when hyping her first film, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Somewhere in the Night.
On the rebound from an engagement with producer Edward Lasker, Guild married fellow Fox contract player Charles Russell in 1947. The following year, they appeared together in the musical Give My Regards to Broadway (1948). They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1949.
She left Fox and appeared in movies as a freelance and at Universal Studios, where she appeared in an Abbott and LESS
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