<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actress </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1953 - 76 </Td> </Tr> <P> Barbara Marie Nickerauer (December 10, 1928--October 5, 1976), better known as Barbara Nichols, was an American actress who often played brassy or comic roles in films in the 1950s and 1960s . </P> <P> Nichols was born Barbara Marie Nickerauer to George and Julia Nickerauer, and raised in Queens, New York . She began modeling for cheesecake magazines in the late 1940s, and eventually was considered a minor rival to Marilyn Monroe . On Broadway, she appeared in the 1952 revival of Pal Joey (she also appeared in the 1957 film version) and in Let It Ride (1961). In the mid-1950s, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing in showy supporting roles in A-films starring such actors as Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Sophia Loren, and Doris Day in such films as Miracle in the Rain (1956), The King and Four Queens (1956), The Naked and the Dead (1958), The Pajama Game (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), That Kind of Woman (1958), and Where the Boys Are (1960). One of her few starring roles was in the 1965 science - fiction film The Human Duplicators . </P>

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