Nanette Fabray
Born: 1920-10-27 in San Diego, California, USA
Died: 2018-02-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
Nanette Fabray (born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares; October 27, 1920 – February 22, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, acclaimed for her role in High Button Shoes (1947) and winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life.
Filmography
2021
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2015
- Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration as Self / Dottie Richards (archive footage)
2012
2009
2005
- Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon' as Self
- Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale as Self
2000
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- Teresa's Tattoo as Martha Mae
1992
- The Golden Palace as Fern
1989
- Coach as Mildred Armstrong
- Personal Exemptions
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Emmaline Bristow
1982
1981
- Amy as Malvina
- Aloha Paradise
1979
- The Man in the Santa Claus Suit as Dora Dayton
- All Star Secrets
1978
- Harper Valley P.T.A. as Alice Finely
1977
- The Love Boat as Mitzy Monroe
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
1975
- One Day at a Time as Katherine Romano
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Happy Anniversary and Goodbye as Fay
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Magic Carpet as Virginia Wolfe
- The Couple Takes a Wife as Marion Randolph
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Dottie Richards
- George M! as Nellie Cohan
- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County as Sadie
- But I Don't Want to Get Married! as Mrs. Vale
1969
- Love, American Style as Cindy
- The Happy Ending as Agnes
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Desiree
- Fame Is the Name of the Game as Pat
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as The White Queen
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self - Singer
1963
- Burke's Law as Amanda Tribble
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Westinghouse Playhouse as Nan McGovern
1960
- The Subterraneans as Society Woman (uncredited)
1959
- Laramie
- The Bell Telephone Hour as Self
- Startime
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- The Family Nobody Wanted as Helen Doss
1953
- The Band Wagon as Lily Marton
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Your Show of Shows
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1939
- A Child Is Born as Gladys Norton
- The Monroe Doctrine as Rosita De La Torre
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
1927
- Animal Catchers as Girl wearing overalls