 Nelson had a featured role in "I Died a Thousand Times", a 1955 remake of "High Sierra", as well as in 1954's "Destry", a remake of "Destry Rides Again".She was one of the leads in an 18th-century adventure story, "Mohawk".Nelson had top billing in a street-racing film, "Hot Rod Girl", also starring Chuck Connors, and the following year she co-starred opposite Mamie Van Doren as law-breakers sentenced to work on a "punishment" farm in "Untamed Youth".