Nancy Olson: A Front Row Seat to a Life Well Lived
Original Airdates: Feb. 3-6, 2023
TVC 603.1: Ed welcomes Academy Award-nominated actress Nancy Olson Livingston (Sunset Boulevard, Pollyanna, The Absent Minded Professor, Big Jim McLain). Nancy’s memoir, A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, is a charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, mother, and philanthropist that also provides readers with an invitation to a world that few of us will ever enter.
Nancy Olson, William Faulkner, and Bennett Cerf
Original Airdates: Feb. 3-6, 2023
TVC 603.2: Academy Award-nominated actress Nancy Olson Livingston (Sunset Boulevard, Pollyanna, The Absent Minded Professor, Big Jim McLain) talks to Ed about her life-altering encounter with Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner (and the role that Bennett Cerf played in making that happen), and how Broadway star Kitty Carlisle Hart was a friend and mentor to her, during and after Nancy’s marriage to lyricist Alan Lerner.
Nancy’s memoir, A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, is available in bookstores everywhere through University Press of Kentucky.
Nancy Olson, William Holden, and The Beatles
Original Airdates: Feb. 3-6, 2023
TVC 603.3: Oscar-nominated actress Nancy Olson Livingston talks to Ed about working with William Holden on several motion pictures, including Sunset Boulevard; why Sunset Boulevard is still relevant today; and the events that led Nancy’s second husband, Capitol Records executive Alan Livingston, to sign The Beatles in 1964. Nancy’s memoir, A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, is available in bookstores everywhere through University Press of Kentucky.
