Nancy Berg

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{{Short description|American model and actress (1931–2022)}}

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Nancy Berg (July 9, 1931 – February 4, 2022) was an American model and actress.{{cite book|author1=Pantone, LLC|author2=Leatrice Eiseman|author3=E.P. Cutler|title=Pantone on Fashion: A Century of Color in Design|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-uKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|accessdate=April 23, 2017|date=September 16, 2014|publisher=Chronicle Books LLC|isbn=978-1-4521-3052-1|page=71}}{{cite web|url=http://pro.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Inge-Morath/1956/Nancy-BERG-(USA)-star-de-la-t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision-_-mannequin-NN16133.html |title=Nancy BERG (USA), star de la télévision & mannequin |publisher=Pro.magnumphotos.com |date= |accessdate=April 23, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Model-Nancy-Berg-Wearing-a-Brown-Velvety-Wool-Dress-by-Adele-Simpson-Prints_i14202806_.htm |title=Model Nancy Berg Wearing a Brown Velvety Wool Dress by Adele Simpson Poster Print by Erwin Blumenfeld at the Condé Nast Collection |publisher=Condenaststore.com |date= |accessdate=April 23, 2017}}

Berg was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Paul Axel Berg{{cite news |title=Successful Model Nancy Berg Would Prefer Being an Actress |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111130090/nancy-berg/ |access-date=October 11, 2022 |work=Asbury Park Press |date=March 24, 1963 |page=31|via = Newspapers.com}} and Dorothy Esther ({{nee}} Schanock) Berg.{{Citation needed |date=October 2022}} She ran away from home there in 1947 and moved to Detroit{{cite magazine |date=April 2022 |page=43 |title=Nancy Berg, 90 |magazine=Classic Images}} to become a model. By 1960, she was earning $40,000 per year. Berg was on the front cover of Vogue four times, starting in 1953, and was Esquire's "Lady Fair" for May of 1956."Sleepy-Time Gal", Esquire, May 1956, pg. 58 She was also the star and sole performer for a 1955 New York television program entitled Count Sheep with Nancy Berg which aired five nights a week from 1:00 to 1:05 in the morning. "The nightgown-clad Miss Berg would appear, get into bed, perform a bit of business, such as read from Romeo and Juliet or eat grapes off a toy Ferris wheel, and then, in extreme close-up, whisper a good night to the camera and pretend to go to sleep as animated sheep jumped over a fence. Her manager stated, 'A lot of people watch it. God knows why.'"{{cite web|url=https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/21/donald-trump-is-like-an-old-friend-parasocial-relationships-and-politics |title= Parasocial Relationships and Politics |author=George Schifini |publisher=areomagazine.com |date=2019-03-21 |accessdate=October 1, 2021}}

In 1962, Berg toured with Bob Cummings in a production of Tunnel of Love.

In 1964, she appeared on “Perry Mason” in S8E12’s “The Case of the Wooden Nickel”.{{Need Citation|date=December 2024}}

Berg was married to actor Geoffrey Horne on February 6, 1958, with whom she had a child. They divorced in 1962.{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-402778/geoffrey-horne-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people |title=Geoffrey Horne - Biographical Summaries of Notable People |publisher=MyHeritage |date=August 22, 1933 |accessdate=April 23, 2017}} She was also married to, and divorced from, Alan Elliott and Richard Praeger in the 1960s. She died on February 4, 2022, at the age of 90, in New York.{{cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/nancy-berg-obituary?id=32877347 |title=Obituary |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 2022 |accessdate=February 12, 2022}}