Nanette Fabray versus Shelley Fabares

I'm under 50 and I barely know Nanette from "One Day at a Time"...she was in other things?

She was Mary Richard's mother. Mary and Ann Romano were sisters.

Nanette was a huge and beloved Broadway and TV star in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

Among many other credits, she starred in High Button Shoes on Broadway and played Sid Caesar's wife on his popular TV series. She was also wonderful in the MGM musical extravaganza That's Entertainment but somehow never made any other feature films.

In her day, she was as recognizable to Americans as First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

Mary always said that when she was crying in an episode of The DVD or MTM shows, she was paying homage to Nanette by copying the heaving sobs made famous by Nanette.

The only bad thing I have to say about Shelley is that she is married to that asshole who was brought in to "M.A.S.H." after Wayne Rogers left.

Nanette is more famous but we know Shelly better from Donna Reed up through Coach.

Also, Shelly played herself in the movie about Annette.

This is kind of like Sophie's Choice. I can't choose.

Nanette had what was quite possibly one of Hollywood's worst nose jobs ever.

Shelley played the perfect older sister on Donna Reed. Who wasn't in love with her if they watched that show as a kid?

Well, of course, Donna Reed and Carl Betz played the perfect parents, as well. How many American kids were totally fucked up thinking this was what the "normal" family was like in the early 1960s? I certainly was.

[quote]She was also wonderful in the MGM musical extravaganza That's Entertainment but somehow never made any other feature films.

Huh? "That's Entertainment" was a compilation of clips from OTHER "feature films," including the one Nanette starred in (with Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, and Jack Buchanan) "The Band Wagon." And she's still with us at 95.

"Where's my fucking ukelele?"

"Tell Gary Morton to go eat a dick! No way am I being portrayed as a fat cow just to make her crummy ass look better. Who the fuck do I look like? Vivian Vance???"

OMG! How could I confuse the title The Band Wagon with its most famous song That's Entertainment??

Nanette plays a lady-in-waiting to Bette Davis' Elizabeth I in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex made in 1939 so I guess she was hanging around the Warners lot and might have made some other films between that and The Band Wagon at MGM.

I've eliminated the competition

VIVIAN VANCE!

AGAIN!

OMFG! SUCH SIDE-SPLITTING HILARITY!

When all the columns start your obituary with Nanette Fabray, Aunt of actress Shelley Fabares, you know who is the better.

r14

Stop being mad because your "zoo" thing isn't a thing.

Nan never had this:

But I just sit and wait

I'd rather masturbate on Johnny Angel