Nancy Walker

She died as a result of lung cancer. and one for television at 6141 Hollywood Blvd. She received one final Emmy Award nomination for a guest role in the series The Golden Girls before retiring. Young has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. She helped make the product's slogan "The Quicker Picker Upper" a common catchphrase. She died of ovarian cancer in 2000 at the age of 87 and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. She is best known for playing "Rosie", a waitress in a series of commercials for "Bounty" paper towels from the 70's up to the early 90's. Her trademark at the beginning of each show was to appear dramatically in a doorway, dressed in the latest of high fashion evening gowns.

The film was a resounding failure. Instead, she moved to television, where she hosted and starred in the well-received anthology series The Loretta Young Show. In 1980, she made her directorial debut directing disco group Village People in Can't Stop The Music. In 1953 she made her last movie, It Happens Every Thursday. Her later efforts brought her no success. In 1949, she received another Academy Award nomination, for Come to the Stable. These two roles would bring her seven Emmy Award nominations. The same year she starred in The Bishop's Wife, a perennial favorite that still airs on television during the Christmas season.

She was a regular on the Rock Hudson detective series McMillan and Wife, portraying Mildred the maid. But although she was receiving fan and critical appreciation, it wasn't until 1947 that she received her first Oscar nomination -- and win -- for The Farmer's Daughter. She achieved her greatest success playing Ida Morgenstern, the mother of Rhoda in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Rhoda. Young made several movies, working on as many as seven or eight a year. Nancy co-starred with Phil Silvers in the 1960 musical Do Re Mi. The daughter herself, known as Judy Lewis (she took Young's second husband's last name), did not know the true story until she herself was an adult. A diminutive 4 feet and 11 inches tall and not conventionally pretty, she was difficult to cast; however, she continued acting throughout the 1940s and 1950s and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1955. They told the whole world that the little girl had been adopted.

Born Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Walker made her Broadway debut in 1941 in Best Foot Forward, the movie version of which would also allow her to make her film debut in 1943. She and her mother moved to Europe, returning with a daughter. Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 - March 25, 1992) was an American actress. In 1934, Young had an affair with Clark Gable, and became pregnant. (They had acted together in The Second Floor Mystery.) The marriage was annulled the next year, just as their second movie together, ironically called Too Young to Marry, came out. In 1930, Young, then only seventeen, ran off with 26-year-old actor Grant Withers and married him in Yuma, Arizona.

The next year, she was anointed one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. It was not until 1928 that she first had her Loretta Young billing, in The Whip Woman. She was billed as Gretchen Young in her next film, also in 1917, Sirens of the Sea. Her half-sister Georgiana (daughter of her mother and step-father George Belzer) eventually married actor Ricardo Montalban.

Even though her mother said no, Gretchen was allowed to live with Murray for two years. The movie's star, Mae Murray, so fell in love with little Gretchen that she asked to adopt her. Her first role was at age 4 in the silent film The Primrose Ring. Born Gretchen Michaela Young in Salt Lake City, Utah, she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Her sisters, Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young (screen name Sally Blane) appeared in child parts in movies, and young Gretchen did the same.

Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 — August 12, 2000) was an American actress.