Barbara Nichols (December 30, 1929 - October 5, 1976) was an actress who was something of a cross between a sex symbol and a character actress, a voluptous and attractive woman who usually played brassy secondary comic roles in a number of major films in the 1950s and 1960s. December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Nichols was born Barbara Nickeraeur in Queens, New York. She began modeling for pinup magazines in the early 1950's and for a period worked as a stripper. In the mid 1950s she moved to Hollywood and began regularly appearing in second leads in a number of films including Miracle in the Rain (1956), A King and Four Queens (1956), The Naked and the Dead (1957), Pal Joey (1957), and That Kind of Woman (1958). Nichols was a very popular model in cheesecake magazines of the era and was considered a minor rival to Marilyn Monroe's throne as the era's sexiest blonde along with several other blonde bombshells including Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Cleo Moore, Diana Dors and Sheree North, although unlike the rest of them, Nichols rarely starred in films yet she had showy supporting roles in major films starring the likes of Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Sophia Loren, and Doris Day. One of her few starring roles was in the 1966 science fiction film The Human Duplicators. Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ... The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel, the first written by Norman Mailer. ... Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary (written in the form of a series of letters) novel by John OHara, which became the basis of a 1940 musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name. ... Polish Cheesecake A cheesecake is a sweet, cheese-based dessert. ... Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an iconic American actress, singer and model. ... Jayne Mansfield Vera Jayne Palmer (April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania – June 29, 1967) was an American actress and sex symbol. ... Mamie Van Doren Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931) is an American actress and sex symbol. ... Cleo Moore Cleo Moore, was a blonde bombshell of 1950s Hollywood films born October 31 1928 (some sources state 1923) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ... Diana Dors Diana Dors (23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was a British actress. ... Sheree North (born January 17, 1932, in Los Angeles, California - died November 4, 2005 in Los Angeles), was an actress and singer who appeared in numerous Broadway shows, Hollywood movies, and television series from the 1950s onwards. ... Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor and the biggest box office star of the early sound film era. ... Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Sophia Loren in the film, La Donna Del Fiume Sophia Loren (born September 20, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning actress (film and stage) widely considered to be the most famous Italian actress. ... Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, known as Doris Day (born April 3, 1924), is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate. ...

Nichols was also a frequent guest star on many television series including The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, and The Beverly Hillbillies. Her last film was 1976's Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood. The Twilight Zones original opening The Twilight Zone was a television anthology series created (and often written) by its narrator and host Rod Serling. ... Untouchable may mean: Dalit (outcaste), formerly or derogatively, populations of India and Nepal outside the caste system Untouchable, a novel of Mulk Raj Anand The Untouchables (law enforcement), the Treasury agent team led by Eliot Ness featured in, among other things: The Untouchables (1947 novel), the book, written by Eliot... The Beverly Hillbillies was a TV sitcom about a hillbilly family living in Southern California in the 1960s. ...

Barbara Nichols died October 5, 1976 of a liver ailment. October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

External links

• Her page at the Internet Movie Database