Biography
Durable leading lady Nita Talbot spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls. In films from 1956, she was afforded a wealth of varied screen roles, from the love-starved switchboard operator in
A Very Special Favor (1966) to the brassy Madame Esther in
Buck and the Preacher (1972). A TV-series perennial, Talbot was seen as Mabel Spooner opposite Larry Blyden's Joe Spooner in Joe and Mabel (1956), unregenerate con artist Blondie Collins on
The Thin Man (1957), resourceful girl Friday Dora on
The Jim Backus Show (1960), snooty socialite Judy Evans in
Here We Go Again (1973) and ultracyncial Rose in
Starting from Scratch. Nita Talbot was also a familiar face on the daytime-drama scene, with long-running roles in
Search for Tomorrow and
General Hospital. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide