She was the archetypal brassy, bosomy, Brooklynesque bimbo with a highly distinctive scratchy voice. Barbara Nichols started life as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Queens, New York on December 10, 1928, and grew up on Long Island. Graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, the dame with the shapely frame changed her reddish-brown hair to platinum ...
I don't care if I never play "The Brothers Karamazov"!
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Fact
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In the late 1940s she was a showgirl at New York City's famed Latin Quarter nightclub.
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Barbara Nichols passed away on October 5, 1976, two months away from what would have been her 48th birthday on December 10.
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In summer 1976 she was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, where she went into a coma. She awoke for several days just before Labor Day, but sank back shortly after. She passed away on October 5, 1976, two months away from what would have been her 48th birthday on December 10. She was interred at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, NY.
A serious automobile accident in Long Island in July 1957 damaged her spleen, and another serious automobile accident in Southern California in the 1960s damaged her liver.
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As a beauty contestant, she was crowned Miss Long Island, Miss Dill Pickle, Miss Mink of 1953 and Miss Welder of 1953.
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Attended and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
Nick's Girl
Medical Story
1975
TV Series
Mrs. Fondaris
The Rookies
1974
TV Series
Marie Antionette
Emergency!
1974
TV Series
Ginger
The Photographer
1974
Mrs. Wilde
Adam-12
1971-1973
TV Series
Elizabeth Mitchell / Janice Walker / Ginger Stephens
Charley and the Angel
1973
Sadie
Love, American Style
1971
TV Series
Gladys (segment "Love and the Doctor's Honeymoon")
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