Nancy Walker

b. Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 10 May 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 25 March 1992, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA. Small in stature but with a powerful stage presence and singing voice, Walker made a considerable mark on Broadway stages, and also impressed in the handful of films in which she appeared. Her Broadway debut came in Best Foot Forward (1941), which had songs by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin. That show was produced by George Abbot who cast her in On The Town (1944) where she stopped the show nightly with ‘I Can Cook Too', prompting songwriters Leonard B...