They say big things often come in small packages, and never was that saying more true than when sizing up the talents of that diminutive dynamo Nancy Walker. Born Anna Myrtle Smoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 10, 1922, she lived a born-in-a-trunk existence as the daughter of vaudevillian Dewey Barto (né Dewey Smoyer). At the time of his run of Broadway's "Hellzapoppin", he was part of the comedy team of Barto & Mann (George Mann). Her sister, Betty Lou Barto, also went on to have a musical career. Though she had designs on becoming a legit singer, it was hard for others to take Nancy seriously with her naturally aggressive manner backed up by this tiny frame. Comedy was definitely her forte.
生于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶，是著名游艺表演家卡特·德黑文和弗洛拉·帕克的女儿。幼年时曾随双亲在歌舞杂耍团演出，并在卓别林的《摩登时代》中演出；四十年代初正式加入米高梅影片公司，开始只是演小角色，后来在歌舞片中大放异彩，成为米高梅影片公司的女明星。进入五十年代中期，随着歌舞...
五六十年代是好莱坞歌舞片鼎盛一时的年代，而在歌舞风潮中屹立潮头旗不湿的导演中除了一代大师文森特．明尼里以外，另一位可堪与之比肩的就是斯坦利·多南了。
