[1] Nelson appeared in seven movies in the 1960s as one of Eric Von Zipper's "mice" in the American International Beach Party series.

[citation needed] She made four appearances on The Andy Griffith Show (and one on Mayberry RFD), all but one as waitress Flora Malherbe.

In 1965 she appeared in a memorable episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show ("Go Tell The Birds And The Bees") as Ritchie's teacher, Miss Reshovsky.

Nelson starred in 1970s The Wild Scene as Dr. Virginia Grant, a female psychiatrist who talks graphically about her tawdriest cases.

[1] Nelson fought cancer of the jaw/throat for several years, dying on April 29, 2006, at age 68, in Erie, Pennsylvania.