Harriet Hilliard

b. Peggy Lou Snyder, 18 July 1909, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, d. 2 October 1994, Laguna Beach, California, USA. Born into a showbusiness family Hilliard started out as a singer and in the early 30s was hired by popular band leader, and future husband, Ozzie Nelson. Although she had appeared in a 1932 film, The Campus Mystery, it was in the mid-30s that she began a parallel career in Hollywood, often in musicals, that continued into the mid-40s. Her films in these years included Follow The Fleet (1936, singing Irving Berlin's ‘Get Thee Behind Me Satan' and Jimmy McHugh and Harold A...