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turbinetree

(24,713 posts) Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:20 PM Feb 2018

Actress Nanette Fabray, who won Tony and Emmy awards, dies at 97

Source: LA Times

Nanette Fabray, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy star whose work with Sid Caesar on the classic 1950s TV comedy-variety show "Caesar's Hour" earned her three Emmy Awards and a lifetime of television work, has died. She was 97.

Fabray, whose early hearing problem spurred her to become a high-profile advocate for the hearing impaired, died Thursday of natural causes in Palos Verdes, her son, Jamie MacDougall, said.

Fabray had won a Tony for best actress in the 1949 musical "Love Life" and appeared in the 1953 MGM musical "The Band Wagon" — in which she, Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan performed the famous "Triplets" number as "three little unexpected children" — before becoming the female lead on "Caesar's Hour" in 1954.

The live, hour long NBC show was the successor to Caesar's popular "Your Show of Shows," whose female lead in comedy sketches was Imogene Coca.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-nanette-fabray-20180223-story.html

Showing my age I use to watch the shows all the time

To the family..................

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Actress Nanette Fabray, who won Tony and Emmy awards, dies at 97 (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2018 OP

Didn't she play Ann ramanos mother Watchfoxheadexplodes Feb 2018 #1

Yes! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2018 #2

And Mary Richards' mother Liberalagogo Feb 2018 #10

That's what came to my mind too. BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #11

That's how you can tell a good actor/actress Liberalagogo Feb 2018 #13

Yes MustLoveBeagles Feb 2018 #16

Godspeed to a talented and lovely lady. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2018 #3

She had quite a few BHDem53 Feb 2018 #4

Ah....those were the days Submariner Feb 2018 #5

You mentioned Lawrence Welk, area51 Feb 2018 #17

No, I missed that gem Submariner Feb 2018 #18

Shelley Fabares is her neice wishstar Feb 2018 #6

Fabray was great in The Band Wagon, my favorite musical stuffmatters Feb 2018 #7

Nanette as one of the triplets nuxvomica Feb 2018 #8

I've seen that before. It's great. She did it all. Hope her passing was peaceful. nt Honeycombe8 Feb 2018 #14

I wuv her! Kittycow Feb 2018 #9

Nanette Fabray did a lot to increase America's awareness of hearing impairment FakeNoose Feb 2018 #12

"I use to watch the shows all the time" and so did I, turbinetree Glorfindel Feb 2018 #15

I vaguely remember her from Caesar's TV show. Paladin Feb 2018 #19

Showing my age here, too eleny Feb 2018 #20

That triples routine drmeow Feb 2018 #21

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)

1. Didn't she play Ann ramanos mother

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:24 PM

Feb 2018

In one day at a time?

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,036 posts)

2. Yes!

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:25 PM

Feb 2018

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)

10. And Mary Richards' mother

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 08:28 PM

Feb 2018

on the MTM show.

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)

11. That's what came to my mind too.

Reply to Liberalagogo (Reply #10)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 08:31 PM

Feb 2018

Liberalagogo

(1,770 posts)

13. That's how you can tell a good actor/actress

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #11)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:06 PM

Feb 2018

She was only on the show 2 times, but you definitely remember her performance.

She was on Maude one time, as a friend of Maude's who had a stroke. I could have sworn that NF had actually had one, she was that good.

MustLoveBeagles

(11,632 posts)

16. Yes

Reply to Watchfoxheadexplodes (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 11:14 PM

Feb 2018

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,036 posts)

3. Godspeed to a talented and lovely lady.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:27 PM

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BHDem53

(1,061 posts)

4. She had quite a few

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:35 PM

Feb 2018

Hollywood Squares appearances also.

Submariner

(12,507 posts)

5. Ah....those were the days

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:39 PM

Feb 2018

My mother and grandmother ALWAYS took over the TV to watch every Nanette Fabray, Kate Smith, and Lawrence Welk (champagne dreams with bubbles flying everywhere) show. It was torture.

Then my Dad and I took over the TV for Saturday morning Candlepin Bowling and the Saturday night fights. All in stunning black and white.

area51

(11,919 posts)

17. You mentioned Lawrence Welk,

Reply to Submariner (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 03:49 AM

Feb 2018

but did you see this offering on the Lawrence Welk show?

Submariner

(12,507 posts)

18. No, I missed that gem

Reply to area51 (Reply #17)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 09:51 AM

Feb 2018

When I left home to join the Navy in '65 I didn't have to endure that stuff anymore

wishstar

(5,271 posts)

6. Shelley Fabares is her neice

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:47 PM

Feb 2018

I didn't know until reading the obit that Nanette changed her name to Fabray because an announcer pronounced it "Fa-bare-ass"

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)

7. Fabray was great in The Band Wagon, my favorite musical

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 07:49 PM

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nuxvomica

(12,438 posts)

8. Nanette as one of the triplets

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 08:07 PM

Feb 2018

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

14. I've seen that before. It's great. She did it all. Hope her passing was peaceful. nt

Reply to nuxvomica (Reply #8)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:58 PM

Feb 2018

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)

9. I wuv her!

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 08:15 PM

Feb 2018

Right up there with Betty White, in my book. I loved her on Maude when they did their "Sonny Boy" routine, if anybody remembers that

FakeNoose

(32,726 posts)

12. Nanette Fabray did a lot to increase America's awareness of hearing impairment

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 09:02 PM

Feb 2018

I think when she was young she was hard of hearing and as she got older she became almost deaf. She was adept at reading lips and, being a good actress, she could learn her lines and cues from the scripts. I remember her coming on TV in the early 60's doing sign language before anyone else did it.

This photo is a little before my time (Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows in 1950) but I do remember Ms. Fabray doing many TV sitcoms and game shows in the 1950's-60's-70's era.

She was a courageous and very funny lady! RIP Nanette Fabray.

Glorfindel

(9,733 posts)

15. "I use to watch the shows all the time" and so did I, turbinetree

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 10:11 PM

Feb 2018

I loved Ms Fabray. She was truly one of a kind. Sympathy and comfort to the family.

Paladin

(28,271 posts)

19. I vaguely remember her from Caesar's TV show.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:21 AM

Feb 2018

And "Band Wagon" is an absolute classic. So glad a fine actress like Fabray got so many years.

eleny

(46,166 posts)

20. Showing my age here, too

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 01:06 PM

Feb 2018

I remember her so well. The Show Of Shows was one I begged my parents to allow me to stay up late and watch. Although that might have been during the Imogene Coca era. Nevertheless, I loved Fabray on the show and in the movies. In the dictionary her picture illustrates the word "vivacious".

drmeow

(5,023 posts)

21. That triples routine

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 03:41 PM

Feb 2018

is one of my favorite musical numbers!

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