Appearing in many TV series, Talbot was seen as Mabel Spooner opposite Larry Blyden's Joe Spooner in Joe and Mabel[3]: 536 (1956); Iris Anderson in the 1958 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"; con-woman Blondie Collins in the second season of The Thin Man[3]: 1071 (1958–59); con-woman/struggling actress Susan Reed in the first-season episode "Beautiful, Blue and Deadly" of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–59); the immigrant wife in "Land Deal" (season 4, episode 9) on Gunsmoke (1958); and as Belle in "Belle's Back" (1960). In 1960, she also appeared in The Tab Hunter Show episode "Be My Guest."
She was in the Alfred 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 the Maverick 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 the Maverick third-season episode "The Resurrection of Joe November" with James Garner (1960). She was the resourceful Girl-Friday, Dora Miles, on The Jim Backus Show[3]: 533 (also known as Hot Off the Wire), snooty socialite Judy Evans in Here We Go Again (1973),[3]: 453 and hypercynical Rose opposite Bill Daily in Starting from Scratch (1988).[3]: 1016
In 1971, Talbot was cast in the pilot episode of the CBS sitcom Funny Face starring actress-comedian Sandy Duncan as Sandy Stockton, a young UCLA 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 of Columbo (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 series Spider-Man.[citation needed]
Personal life
Talbot was married twice—first to actor Don 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]
^ abMark, Norman (February 10, 1973). "Star of New Comedy Series Enjoys Talking". Pottstown Mercury. Pennsylvania, Pottstown. Chicago Daily News Service. p. 29. Retrieved June 9, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^ abcdefghTerrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 128. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
^Mercer, Charles (July 14, 1955). "Nita Talbot Tabbed as New Star". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Corpus Christi, TX. Associated Press. p. 38. Retrieved June 9, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
