Gene Nelson Overview:

Actor, Gene Nelson, was born Leander Eugene Berg on Mar 24, 1920 in Seattle, WA. Nelson died at the age of 76 on Sep 16, 1996 in Los Angeles, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Gene Nelson Quotes:

Melinda Howard: [handing Tom a penny] There's a message on that to you from the women of the world.
Tom Farnham: In God We Trust


Don Weston: Why d'you eat that rabbit food? You oughta have something solid.
Angela Gardner: I've got to watch my figure.
Don Weston: You eat. Let me watch it.


Ellen Lacey: But you haven't done anything! You're innocent!
Steve Lacey: Once you do a stretch, you're never clean again! You're never free! They've always got a string on you, and they tug, tug, tug! Before you know it, you're back again!


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Gene Nelson Facts
First wife Miriam Franklin (nee Frankel) was a specialty film dancer from Broadway ("Panama Hattie"). Married in 1941, she worked in Hollywood while Gene served in the Army. He joined her later and she was instrumental in helping him work up his innovative dance routines on film.

Suffered a fractured pelvis in 1957 when a horse fell on him while on film location in Tennessee.

In high school he organized and trained a football cheering squad -- writing songs and cheers as well.

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