Harriet Nelson

1951 Starred (along with family) in a feature film, "Here Come the Nelsons", which was essentially an extended episode of their popular radio program; was also Harriet Nelson's last feature film appearance

1949 Child actors on radio's "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" replaced with the couples own sons David and Ricky, to some extent in response to the children's insistence

1944 Last feature film for eight years, "Take It Big"

1941 First film in which she acted opposite husband Ozzie Nelson, "Sweetheart of the Campus", in which they took second and third billing behind Ruby Keeler

1941 - 1944 With husaband, appeared regularly on Red Skelton's radio program

1937 Moved to Hollywood with husband; appeared for one season on the radio show "Seeing Stars"

1936 Made feature film debut opposite Randolph Scott as the second leads of the musical, "Follow the Fleet", starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire

1932 Became a singer for bandleader Ozzie Nelson's orchestra

1925 At age 16, made Broadway debut

1912 Began performing onstage with her parents at age three (date approximate)

When parents separated, raised first by her aunt and grandmother then sent to live at St Agnes Academy in Kansas City

Took the name of Harriet Hilliard when she began performing in vaudeville

Starred opposite her husband on the popular radio program, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"; originally began the show with child actors playing their children

Starred in long-running ABC sitcom, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"; also did supervisory (but uncredited) work on the program's sets and costumes

Starred opposite Ozzie Nelson in the syndicated TV sitcom, "Ozzie's Girls"

Fell down a set of stairs not long after her last TV appearance and crushed a vertebra; complications from that and emphysema from a lifetime of smoking caused health decline in the early 1990s