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Ozzie Nelson

Ozzie Nelson

Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American band leader, actor, director, and producer. He originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, a radio and long-running television series with his wife Harriet and two sons David and Ricky Nelson.

Nelson started his entertainment career as a band leader. He formed and led "The Ozzie Nelson Band," and had some initial limited success. Nelson's records were consistently popular, and in 1934, Nelson enjoyed success with his hit song, "Over Somebody Else's Shoulder," which he introduced. Nelson was their primary vocalist and, from August of 1932, he featured in duets with his other star vocalist, Harriet Hilliard. Nelson's calm, easy vocal style was popular on records and radio and quite similar to son Rick's voice, and Harriet's perky vocals added to the band's popularity.

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Movies Starring Ozzie Nelson (14)

The Impossible Years (1968)

The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle. ...

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The Movie Orgy (1968)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and ...

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Disneyland '59 (1959)

Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Openi ...

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Here Come the Nelsons (1952)

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters. ...

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People Are Funny (1946)

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer wit ...

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Take It Big (1944)

Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's ...

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Wave-a-Stick Blues (1944)

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader. ...

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Hi, Good Lookin'! (1944)

An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer. ...

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Honeymoon Lodge (1943)

Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon. Things get complic ...

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Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943)

Ozzie Nelson leads his orchestra in two standard numbers, and Ozzie performs two novelty songs. ...

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Strictly in the Groove (1942)

College student, cattle baron, confused love story. ...

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The Big Street (1942)

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him. ...

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Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep ...

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Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra (1940)

Ozzie and his orchestra play a few tunes. ...

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Movies Made By Ozzie Nelson (3)

Love and Kisses (1965)

Two teenagers elope and take up residence at the groom's home with his parents and sister, but the newlyweds quickly discover married life is much different from high-school. ...

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Here Come the Nelsons (1952)

The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters. ...

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Wave-a-Stick Blues (1944)

Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader. ...

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