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Nancy Ames(I)

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Ames is the beautiful blonde folksinger and songwriter who is best known for being the That Was the Week That Was (1963) (aka TW3) girl, the only cast member to appear in all episodes during both seasons of the program. She recorded thirteen albums and co-wrote, with Mason Williams, the theme to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967). Since 1972, she has lived in Houston, Texas, where she headlined her own television show, "The Nancy Ames Show", for five years on the NBC affiliate station. She and her husband, Danny Ward, run an event-planning company, Ward & Ames Special Events; and she and her daughter, Nancy Riviere, have a jewelry company, Alfaro Designs, that sells the jewelry she designs based on wine motifs.
BornSeptember 30, 1937
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    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Nancy Ames
    Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters in Walk on Water (2004)
    Walk on Water
    7.3
    • Soundtrack
    • 2004
    The Name of the Game (1968)
    The Name of the Game
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Louise Hahn
    Red Skelton in The Red Skelton Hour (1951)
    The Red Skelton Hour
    8.1
    TV Series
    • Handsoff Hannah
    • Needa Hubby

    Credits

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    Music Department



    • Dick Smothers, Tom Smothers, and Smothers Brothers in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967)
      The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
      8.0
      TV Series
      • theme music composer
      • 1967–1969

    Actress



    • The Name of the Game (1968)
      The Name of the Game
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Louise Hahn
      • 1968
    • Ed Sullivan in The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
      The Ed Sullivan Show
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Singer
      • 1968
    • Red Skelton in The Red Skelton Hour (1951)
      The Red Skelton Hour
      8.1
      TV Series
      • Handsoff Hannah
      • Needa Hubby
      • 1966–1967
    • Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
      Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Nancy Ames
      • 1964

    Soundtrack



    • Alexandra - Stimme der Sehnsucht: Der rätselhafte Tod eines Stars
      TV Movie
      • writer: "Cinderella Rockefella" (uncredited)
      • 2012
    • Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, and Caroline Peters in Walk on Water (2004)
      Walk on Water
      7.3
      • writer: "Cinderella-Rockefella"
      • 2004
    • The Cuckoo Waltz (1975)
      The Cuckoo Waltz
      6.5
      TV Series
      • writer: "Cinderella Rockefella" (uncredited)
      • 1975
    • Zoomerang!
      6.8
      • performer: "Linda Crest Lament"
      • writer: "Linda Crest Lament" (uncredited, uncredited)
      • 1974
    • Renee Anderson, Wanda Bailey, Patricia Mickey, Susie Ewing, Jackie Chidsey, Micki McGlone, Paula Cinko, The Golddiggers, Pauline Antony, Rosie Cox Gitlin, and Michelle DellaFave in Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers (1968)
      Chevrolet Presents the Golddiggers
      6.9
      TV Series
      • writer: "Cinderella Rockefella"
      • 1971
    • Johnny Cash in The Johnny Cash Show (1969)
      The Johnny Cash Show
      8.6
      TV Series
      • performer: "Tulsa Country"
      • 1970
    • The Engelbert Humperdinck Show (1969)
      The Engelbert Humperdinck Show
      7.3
      TV Series
      • writer: "Somewhere There's Music"
      • 1969
    • Roger Miller in The Roger Miller Show (1966)
      The Roger Miller Show
      TV Series
      • performer: "What the World Needs Now"
      • 1966
    • The Andy Williams Show (1962)
      The Andy Williams Show
      7.4
      TV Series
      • performer: "Guantanamera"
      • 1966

    Personal details

    • Born
      • September 30, 1937
      • Washington, District of Columbia, USA
    • Spouses
        Danny WardJune 16, 1976 - present
    • Children
      • Nancy Alfaro Riviere
    • Parents
        Nancy Kerr Hamilton
    • Relatives
      • Ricardo Joaquin Alfaro II(Sibling)
    • Other works
      Album: "Latin Pulse".

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      Her second husband was Romanian-born hypnotist Traian Boyer.

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