Actress Nancy Olson Livingston – one of many final lead actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age – recognized for her Oscar-nominated efficiency as Betty Schaefer in Sundown Boulevard (1950) and starring roles in such movies as Pollyanna (1960) and The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)—will obtain the 2023 Cinecon Legacy Award. 

The award, which honors people who’ve contributed their skills to the movies of the golden age, will probably be offered on the Cinecon 59 Movie Pageant, Sunday, September 3 at 5:00 pm PST, positioned on the Previous City Music Corridor, 140 Richmond St., El Segundo, CA 90245. Full Pageant passes and Day passes are presently accessible on the Cinecon web site.

This system will include a screening of Livingston’s movie Submarine Command adopted by a lecture and ebook signing to advertise Livingston’s new memoir, A Entrance Row Seat: An Intimate Have a look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour (College Press of Kentucky, November 2022).

“The Cinecon Legacy Award was established in 1965, the 12 months Cinecon started. At every pageant now we have invited celebrities to attend, view their work on display and focus on their life in movie,” stated Stan Taffel, President of the Cinecon Movie Pageant. “Ms. Olson’s distinguished profession is just not merely outlined by her iconic function in Sundown Boulevard, which is why we’re showcasing one in all her lesser recognized however nonetheless vital performances in Submarine Command. It’s with this intention and want to let Ms. Olson understand how vital she is to movement footage and our Cinecon attendees will probably be thrilled past measure on the announcement of her look.”

Along with honoring Livingston, the 2023 Cineon Legacy Award may also acknowledge Carol Lawrence, Peggy Webber, and Cora Sue Collins. Earlier honorees embrace Mitzi Gaynor, Patricia Neal, Celeste Holm, Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper, Jane Russell, and Roger Corman.

Livingston, who celebrated her 95^th birthday July 14, stated she is thrilled to obtain the award.

“After I was 21, working day-after-day at Paramount, I had no concept that the movies we made then would stay so highly effective at present,” stated Livingston. “I really feel honored and privileged to have been part of it, and I wish to thank Cinecon for his or her efforts to introduce films from one other period to a brand new era of filmgoers and for acknowledging my work with the Cinecon Legacy Award.”

Livingston’s memoir A Entrance Row Seat displays on her decades-long profession and treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, spouse, and mom. She shares reminiscences of signing with Paramount as a pupil at UCLA and dealing with a number of the legends of the silver display, together with William Holden, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, and John Wayne. The ebook additionally gives a candid take a look at her marriages to lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, creator of award-winning musicals My Truthful Woman, Gigi, and Camelot, and to Alan Wendell Livingston, former president of Capitol Information, who created Bozo the Clown and labored with legendary musical artists, together with Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, The Seashore Boys, The Beatles, The Band, and Don McLean.

Oscar nominated star, writer and philanthropist, Nancy Olson Livingston was nominated for an Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actress for her function in Sundown Boulevard (1950). She has appeared in a number of movies, together with Union Station (1950), Battle Cry (1955), Pollyanna (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Airport 1975 (1974). She has additionally starred in three performs on Broadway: Tunnel of Love, Ship Me No Flowers, and Mary, Mary, and guest-starred in quite a few tv exhibits. She has not too long ago been featured in IndieWire, The New Yorker,Vainness Truthful, and on NPR. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.

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