Actor
Nanette Fabray
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self
2015 -- Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration | Self / Dottie Richards (archive footage)
2012 -- In the Beginning: The Caesar Years | Self
2009 -- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression | Self
2005 -- Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale | Self
2005 -- Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon' | Self
2003 -- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self
2000 -- The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy | Herself
2000 -- The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room | Herself
2000 -- The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV | Self
1994 -- That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage)
1994 -- Teresa's Tattoo | Martha Mae
1989 -- Personal Exemptions |
1985 -- Night of 100 Stars II | Self
1981 -- Amy | Malvina
1979 -- The Man in the Santa Claus Suit | Dora Dayton
1978 -- Harper Valley P.T.A. | Alice Finely
1976 -- That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage)
1974 -- Happy Anniversary and Goodbye | Fay
1973 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli | Self (archive footage)
1972 -- The Couple Takes a Wife | Marion Randolph
1972 -- Magic Carpet | Virginia Wolfe
1970 -- But I Don't Want to Get Married! | Mrs. Vale
1970 -- George M! | Nellie Cohan
1970 -- The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County | Sadie
1969 -- The Happy Ending | Agnes
1966 -- Fame Is the Name of the Game | Pat
1966 -- Alice Through the Looking Glass | The White Queen
1962 -- The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self
1960 -- The Subterraneans | Society Woman (uncredited)
1953 -- The Band Wagon | Lily Marton
1939 -- A Child Is Born | Gladys Norton
1939 -- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
1939 -- The Monroe Doctrine | Rosita De La Torre
1927 -- Animal Catchers | Girl wearing overalls
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