Nita Talbot
Talbot in 1956
Born	Anita Sokol (1930-08-08)August 8, 1930 (age 94) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949–1997
Spouses	Don Gordon ​ ​ (m. 1954; div. 1958)​ Thomas A. Geas ​ ​ (m. 1961; div. 1964)​
Children	1

Nita Talbot (bornAnita Sokol;^[1] August 8, 1930)^[2] is an American actress. She received anEmmy Award nomination forBest Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the 1967–68 season ofHogan's Heroes.

Born in New York City on August 8, 1930, of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry, Talbot began her acting career appearing as amodel in the 1949 filmIt's a Great Feeling. She was afforded a wealth of varied screen roles, from the love-starved switchboard operator inA Very Special Favor (1965) to the sharp-tongued Madame Esther inBuck and the Preacher (1972). She also appeared in such films asBright Leaf (1950),This Could Be the Night (1957),I Married a Woman (1958),Who's Got the Action? (1962),Girl Happy (1965),The Day of the Locust (1975),Serial (1980),Night Shift (1982),Chained Heat (1983),Fraternity Vacation (1985), andPuppet Master II (1990).

Appearing in many TV series, Talbot was seen as Mabel Spooner oppositeLarry Blyden's Joe Spooner inJoe and Mabel^[3]: 536 (1956); Iris Anderson in the 1958Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"; con-woman Blondie Collins in the second season ofThe Thin Man^[3]: 1071 (1958–59); con-woman/struggling actress Susan Reed in the first-season episode "Beautiful, Blue and Deadly" ofMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–59); the immigrant wife in "Land Deal" (season 4, episode 9) onGunsmoke (1958); and as Belle in "Belle's Back" (1960). In 1960, she also appeared inThe Tab Hunter Show episode "Be My Guest."

She was in theAlfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Maria" (1961), as a circus blonde who abandons her husband to an evil dwarf woman (whose act consists of playing a monkey able to draw what it sees) who made her believe her husband had been unfaithful. She appeared with Jack Kelly in theMaverick third-season episode "Easy Mark" (1959) as a woman hired to "distract" Bart masquerading as millionaire Cornelius Van Rennselaer Jr., and played against type in theMaverick third-season episode "The Resurrection of Joe November" withJames Garner (1960). She was the resourceful Girl-Friday, Dora Miles, onThe Jim Backus Show^[3]: 533 (also known asHot Off the Wire), snooty socialite Judy Evans inHere We Go Again (1973),^[3]: 453 and hypercynical Rose oppositeBill Daily inStarting from Scratch (1988).^[3]: 1016

Between 1966 and 1971, she appeared in seven episodes ofHogan's Heroes as"White Russian" spyMarya,^{[3]: 465–466} a role for which she received aPrimetime Emmy Award nomination forBest Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1968 for the episode "The Hostage".^[4][5] Talbot was a recurring guest star on several otherseries, includingMan Against Crime,Bourbon Street Beat (four episodes as Lusti Weather),^[3]The Secret Storm,Mannix^[6] andSupertrain,^[3]: 1040 while also appearing in single episodes of other shows, including theKolchak: The Night Stalker episode, 'The Werewolf'. Talbot also had long-running roles inSearch for Tomorrow andGeneral Hospital. OnGeneral Hospital, she portrayed Delfina from 1981 to 1983 (and again in 1992),Tiffany Hill's old friend who takes over designingLuke and Laura's wedding.

In 1971, Talbot was cast in the pilot episode of theCBS sitcomFunny Face starring actress-comedianSandy Duncan as Sandy Stockton, a youngUCLA student from Illinois majoring in education and making ends meet by working part-time as an actress in television commercials for the Prescott Advertising Agency. Talbot played Sandy's agent, Maggie Prescott. Shortly after filming the pilot, CBS picked up the program for the fall of 1971, but revised the format slightly, resulting in Talbot being dropped from the cast.^{[citation needed]} She appeared in "A Stitch in Crime", episode 6 of the second season ofColumbo (1973). Her last acting role was in 1997, when she voiced the character of Anastasia Hardy, the businesswoman mother of Felicia Hardy,the Black Cat, in the animated seriesSpider-Man.^{[citation needed]}

Talbot was married twice—first to actorDon Gordon (September 7, 1954, to April 11, 1958; divorced) and then to actor Thomas A. Geas (from August 13, 1961, until their divorce in 1964).^[7][1][8] She had one daughter, Nicole Andrea Geas, born in Los Angeles on May 28, 1962.^[9]

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• Nita Talbot at theInternet Broadway Database

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