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Working with this wonderful performer was a great thrill for me. She was like and beginner with great joy and loved every suggestion I made and wanted to rehearse over and over again. I was shocked somewhat because few Oscar winners seem to want to do that with and "unknown" which I kind of was in those days. When waiting around we talked once about Errol Flynn who I think did 8 pictures with her, back in the Warner Bros, days. She said all the bad press he got on being Pro Nazi and other things, was to quote Her. "was ridicules, and believe me I knew him better then anyone." Joe Cotton,all the way back with Wells in "Citizen Kane," was a regular guy, and was the star of the first film I did, still in New Orleans, It was entitled "The Steel Trap" with the wonderful Teresa Wright. I was an extra and scared to death standing next to him in a big scene. The title of this ABC TV movie was something else and they changed it after we started shooting. Olivia really hated the title saying, "All the audience will see is my face screaming from this title."

I wrote this because you all liked the picture so much. Thanks Ed Nelson

a few years after making 'Time to Run", my wife and I were traveling in France on vacation and a young couple in Paris came up to us and said, When we saw your Billy Graham picture, it changed our entire life. Thank you, and God bless you, (which He has) I've made quite a few shows and that never happen before or since.Reverent Graham was at the preview held in Santa Barbara, California, Many stars were in attendance, The great Olympic athlete Jessie Owens, and Ethel Waters sang "His eye is on the sparrow," which brought the audience to smile through their tears. More people saw that picture in time then most other films in which I performed.