Nancy Saunders Biography

The leading lady of six "Durango Kid" Westerns and at least two Three Stooges' comedy shorts, voluptuous ash-blonde Nancy Saunders came to the screen in 1946 courtesy of RKO talent scout/movie actor Donald Dillaway, who reportedly spotted her dancing at Hollywood's famed Coconut Grove. A former photographer's model and a professional exhibition rider, Saunders was a natural for B-Western fame -- she did a total of eight -- but television audiences are probably better acquainted with her appearances in the Stooges' shorts Brideless Groom (1947), as one of Shemp Howard's aggressive would-be brides, and The Ghost Talks (1949), as Lady Godiva no less. Footage from these comedies wound up in Stone Age Romeos (1955) and Husbands Beware (1956), prolonging Saunders' onscreen visibility by about four years. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi