Everything about Nanette Fabray totally explained
Nanette Fabray (born
October 27,
1920) is an
American Emmy Award and
Tony Award-winning actress.
Born as
Nanette Ruby Bernadette Fabares in
San Diego, California, she overcame a significant
hearing impairment to pursue her career and has been a long-time advocate for the rights of the deaf and hard of hearing. Her honors representing the handicapped include the
President's Distinguished Service Award and the
Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award.
Biography
Career
In
vaudeville from the age of six, Fabray made her first film appearance in the
Our Gang short
Cradle Robbers in
1924. Her feature debut came as one of
Bette Davis' ladies-in-waiting in
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). In 1953, she played her most famous screen role as a
Betty Comden-like
playwright in
MGM's
The Band Wagon with
Fred Astaire and
Jack Buchanan. Their performance included a classic musical number, "Triplets", that was eventually included in
That's Entertainment Part II. Additional film credits include
The Subterraneans and
The Happy Ending.
Fabray made her
Broadway debut in
Let's Face It! in 1941. Additional theatre credits included
By Jupiter,
Bloomer Girl,
High Button Shoes,
Make a Wish,
Love Life for which she won the Tony Award, and
Mr. President, which garnered her a second nomination.
In her early Broadway and film appearances, Fabray was credited as Fabares. The pronunciation is the same, but she changed the spelling following an embarrassing moment on
The Ed Sullivan Show, when the famed host, reading a cue card, mispronounced her name on live television as "Nanette Fa-bare-ass."
Television
Fabray became a household name with her appearances on
Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmys. Fabray appeared on several series as the mother of a main character: on
One Day at a Time she was Ann Romano's mom; on
Mary Tyler Moore she was mother to Mary Richards, and on
Coach, she played mother to real-life niece
Shelley Fabares.
She also made appearances on
The Carol Burnett Show,
Burke's Law,
Love, American Style,
Maude,
The Love Boat, and
Murder, She Wrote. Her brief, eponymous
1961 comedy series was cancelled after 13 episodes. On the
PBS program,
Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore credited her well-known "crying" takes to mimicking Fabray's style of comic crying.
Fabray's most recent work was in
2007, when she appeared in
The Damsel Dialogues, an original revue by composer Dick de Benedictus, with direction/choreography by Miriam Nelson. The show focused on women's' issues with life, love, loss and the work place. The play was performed at the Whitefire Theatre in
Sherman Oaks, California.
Personal life
Fabray's first husband, Dave Tebet was a Vice-President of
NBC. Her second husband,
screenwriter and sometime-
director Ranald MacDougall (1957-73), with whom she'd one child, numbered
Mildred Pierce and
Cleopatra among his credits. He was President of the
Writers Guild of America in the early 1970s.
A resident of
Pacific Palisades, California, Fabray wrote to
Dear Abby in
2001 to decry the loud
background music used on television programs today.
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Nanette Fabray has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
Film
Television
Caesar's Hour (1954-1957)
So Help Me, Aphrodite (1960)
Westinghouse Playhouse (1961)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966)
George M! (1970)
But I Don't Want to Get Married! (1970)
Magic Carpet (1972)
The Couple Takes a Wife (1972)
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye (1974)
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979)
One Day at a Time (cast member from 1979-1984)Further Information
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