Nancy Guild
Biography
Nancy Guild appeared in American movies in the 1940s and 1950s, but she never became as famous as she hoped at 20th Century Fox. A student at the University of Arizona, she was noticed by a Life magazine photographer; after her picture ran in a campus fashion feature, five Hollywood studios gave her screen tests, and Fox signed her to a seven-year contract. Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed her first film, Somewhere in the Night (1946). She was the female lead of The Brasher Doubloon (1947) and played Marie Antoinette and the hypnotized object of Orson Welles's affection in a 1949 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's Cagliostro novel. She later worked freelance and for Universal-International, appearing in Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) and Francis Covers the Big Town (1953). She was a panelist on the DuMont show Where Was I? from 1952 to 1953 and returned to the screen in Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (1971).
73years old at death
- Born Los Angeles
- Died East Hampton
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Nancy Joan Guild
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 25 years1946 to 1971
Every film, newest first
- 1971Such Good FriendsIMDb rating 6.0
- 1951Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible ManIMDb rating 6.6
- 1949Black MagicIMDb rating 6.4
- 1947The Brasher DoubloonIMDb rating 6.5
- 1946Somewhere in the NightIMDb rating 7.0
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Big break
Guild was a University of Arizona freshman when a Life magazine photographer noticed her; after her picture ran in a campus fashions spread, five Hollywood studios gave her screen tests and 20th Century Fox signed her.
First role
Guild's first film was Somewhere in the Night (1946), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Fox publicity writers hyped her with the line "Guild rhymes with wild!"
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Worked with
Nancy Guild shares two films with Sheldon Leonard, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Fritz Kortner's page
Orson Welles's page
Whit Bissell's page
Jeff Corey's page
Burgess Meredith's page
Charles LamontDirector, 1 film, 1951
All films by Charles Lamont
All films by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All films by Gregory Ratoff
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