Nanette Fabray is DEAD TO ME!

NO ,NO ..Nanette!

I can't believe it, too young to go. What will Shelly do now?

Shelly's too busy with the Coach reboot to care.

So young.

Am I next?

Olivia at R4, you bitch!

Must you torment us so???

Farewell First Lady......

R6 Silence!

I am in a litigious mood these days.

I’ve always loved her decorative eggs.

You're gonna love her odor-removing spray Larry!

Ten posts and no mention of One Day at a Time?!

LOL @ R9 & R10. WW to both.

I thought she was adorable in this number from The Bandwagon.

Dammit, R11.

Tony Award winning actress who worked with Jerome Robbins

Has Shelley made a statement?

She had such a nice, fresh energy and presence (plus talent) in "The Band Wagon". I guess she arrived in Hollywood just as long-time stars were not having their contracts renewed. She had a lovely voice and was fun to watch. Rest in peace.

There's the story of why she changed her name to Fabray from Fabares. Apparently Ed Sullivan really messed up her name at some rally at Madison Square Garden or some place like that. He misread her name as "Fa-bare-ass" as he read her name off a card.

Now, if only someone would do an Encores presentation (and a major recording) of "Love Life", the musical Ms. Fabray won her Tony for!

I've always loved that Louisiana Hayride number from The Bandwagon but it sure seems inappropriate in 2018.

Nanette played the second lead in No No Nanette on tour

Thank you, Ed.....

This is absolutely wonderful......

Why must you always pick on Larry King? Let's take a call from Naperville, Illinois to find out!

Hold me, r11, I’m scared.

If you're dead and you know it, clap your hands....

I confuse her with Bea Benederet.

She was an entertaining actress but had one of the worst nose jobs ever.

The "Monkeys that Look Like Nanette Fabray" thread from a few years ago was hilarious.

Hold me David, I'm scared.

Picture of Nanette pre-nose job, from the other thread.

Even as a kid I felt there was something uncanny about her face. She should have tried to fix that bad surgery (assuming she didn't). She was much cuter with her original nose, as is usually the case.

One Death At a Time.

Who’s next at bat? Will it be Rob Rifkin, Richard Masur or ML Wilson?

No-nose Nanette.

One of the worst rhinoplasties in Hollywood.

Beethoven's 5th

on Burke's Law....

R28. Yes it's inappropriate, but she was just so cute in it!

.........

I'll issue a statement when she learns to spell her name correctly

Her costars from that show are shits not to release a loving statement and that includes you, Glenn Scarpelli, Valerie Bertinelli and Mack Phillips!

Not to mention Boyd Gaines and Michael Lembeck.

A pox on all of your houses!

She played Mary Tyler Moore's mother on that show. But she outlasted her! And come to think of it she was not that much older than MTM.

She had undiagnosed hearing loss as a child and was considered stupid at school when she couldn’t understand what was going on.

She later promoted sign language and education for the deaf. I will hunt up a video.

If only she would have laid off the coke, Nanette would still be with us today.

Go to the 3:00 mark. It’s in the intro to the show.

She sings and signs Over the Rainbow and the audience is spellbound.

The network had nixed the number, but Carol Burnett got a plant in the audience to get it back.

I feel like I am a cynical old fuck sometimes, but not watching this.

[quote]The network had nixed the number, but Carol Burnett got a plant in the audience to get it back.

Come again?

Mack just paid tribute to her on Facebook.

Tony winner

I remember her for that episode of Maude where she plays the friend whom Maude hasn't seen in a long time, only to discover she's disabled from a stroke.

[quote]Not to mention Boyd Gaines and Michael Lembeck.

I'm too busy winning Tony Awards

r42

Anything to keep MY NAME before the public

After all the really big name ladies had turned Mame's producers down, the final three were Nanette, Dolores Gray and Angela. Didn't Nanaette lose partly because she refused to do a formal audition?

Nanette replaced Imogene Coca on Your Show of Shows when Imogene chose to leave the show.

Nanette and Alexis Smith were classmates at Hollywood High School and they would vie for the leading roles in school productions.

R41, that did sound a bit fantastical.

I meant that she got an audience member to bring up Fabray’s work with the deaf.

The audience member was planted, hence, the plant.

So for years and years they couldn't show those early Carol Burnett shows because she and the producers were litigating over ownership rights -- and now they are all on Yotube for free?!

For all intents and purposes, Nanette was a much-beloved star of Broadway and Hollywood, cherished by all of her co-stars.

The only negative thing I've ever heard about her was she supposedly made a big stink about a dress Anita Gillette was given to wear in the Broadway musical Mr. President. Nanette felt Anita's costume outshone hers, and as the leading lady, Nanette pulled rank and insisted it be changed.The highly anticipated new musical, Irving Berlin's first in many years (and his last), was a big expensive flop. I believe it was also Nanette's final appearance in a Broadway muscal. Anita Gillette continued to appear in several other flops.

Oh, and Nanette also was said to abhor her Bandwagon costar, Oscar Levant, who played her husband. He was extremely undisciplined and unreliable and she didn't hesitate to criticize him. If you've seen his performance, you'll forgive her here.

The clip upthread of Nanette Fabray and Sid Caesar was hysterically funny. It’s dated humor, but somehow it still made me laugh out loud. The understatement on his face matched with the barely concealed exasperation/panic on hers really made it for me.

She really did have a wonderfully expressive face that lent itself perfectly to comedy. I can see how Carol Burnett and MTM looked up to her.

[quote]Didn't Nanaette lose partly because she refused to do a formal audition?

And because she wouldn't do full-frontal nudity.

[quote]If only she would have laid off the coke, Nanette would still be with us today.

Quite true. Refined ladies should always choose Pepsi.

R40 You wrecked me for the rest of the weekend after watching her do Over The Rainbow on Carol Burnett.

SOB!

So for years and years they couldn't show those early Carol Burnett shows because she and the producers were litigating over ownership rights -- and now they are all on Yotube ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶f̶r̶e̶e̶?̶!̶ illegally?!

As a kid I thought that movie parody (42nd St?)she did on Carol Burnett was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.

Glenn Scarpelli tweeted that her pussy stunk.

^That’s 14 characters more than Susan Dey could muster for David Cassidy!

R40 needed to be labeled with a Mary! warning.

It is the sweetest, most gentle thing I have seen in forever.

Nan and Johnnie flip.......

Valerie Bertinelli had a terrific scene with her in "The Nearness of You".

Why hasn't she paid her any tribute? She is all up Betty White's ass every time she farts.

WTF is “The Nearness Of You?”

Johnnie Ray looks almost frail in the musical skit at r62, even when he was kicking up his heels.

Every time I see him, I think of Judy Garland when she was off her game.

My old boyfriend had a record of the two of them touring in Europe. Two parallel train wrecks.

The Nearness Of You.

R65, He was the only "celebrity" guest at Judy's final wedding.

Nannette outlived both her TV daughters but she couldn't take me on

Fun Fact.

Bonnie Franklin handpicked Nanny to play her mom.

....

r69

Translation: Everyone else turned her down

Dammit, R71!

Lucy wanted to play her mother but Gary made her turn it down.

Wasn't Johnny Ray also legally deaf? There appears to be a large hearing aid in his ear in the Nanette duet clip.

How wonderful to have had a career that lasted as long as Nanette's and have generations of audiences fondly remember her for so many different stages of her career.

As I'm well into my 60s, I recall seeing her as a little kid on TV as Sid Caesar's partner on his TV show and, of course, in the film The Bandwagon. Then years later in grad school, I reconnected with her as MTM's mom. But I was already too old to watch One Day at a Time, though I'm glad she continued to work and make new and younger fans.

RIP Nanette!

R73, yes, he was nearly deaf. He lost some hearing as a child and then had surgery as an adult that left him nearly deaf in both ears

So the performance at r62 was by two singers with significant hearing loss.

Marlee Matlin tweeted today about about Nanette Fabray being an early proponent of ASL.

And now you can see just the singing/signing performance on Carol Burnett.

Mary! Alert: This is the only rendition of Over the Rainbow that I’ve ever heard and forgotten about Judy Garland. It’s just fucking lovely.

She was delightful and brought joy to every show in which she appeared.

She ended up with Miles Webber.

She was cute and hilarious in her "What's My Line" appearance. It starts at 15:56.

No one knew who she was by the time she got to ODAAT. I remember asking my mother and she said "Some old time actress I think"

Love Nanette on that WML clip! She is indeed adorable.

I think some of her early fame was actually due to her rather unremarkable looks which were very relatable and engaging and made her singing and comedic talents all the more surprising.....like your aunt or cousin who could really let 'er rip!

Pre nose job. So pretty, she should have left it alone.

She and Michael Jackson had something in common.

Strange that Valerie Bertinelli did not pay tribute.

[Quote]She and Michael Jackson had something in common.

Yeah, the same skin color.

HAs JOHN PUTCH ISSUED A STATEMENT??!?

[quote] But I was already too old to watch One Day at a Time

They imposed an age limit?

Has James Darren released a statement?

Thank you, Nanny F.

Her late husband, Ranald MacDougall, wrote the script for DL's most popular movie, "Mildred Pierce."

Brief mention of Nanette here.

Did her pussy stink?

I sent my condolences to her family and a bunch of bitter queens went nuts!

She's fine, she sends her love.

Nanette Fabray was in show business 94 years, three years longer than Rose Marie's 91 years.

I forgot Shelley was also on One Day At A Time as Francine.

But that's Shelley's original nose, right?

[quote]After all the really big name ladies had turned Mame's producers down, the final three were Nanette, Dolores Gray and Angela. Didn't Nanaette lose partly because she refused to do a formal audition?

Someone at BWW posted that she was Gower Champion's first choice for Dolly and after Merman [and I'll add Martin] turned Merrick down she was approached. She lost the part because she wouldn't audition.

Nanette had a small role in 1939's "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex", starring Bette Davis, Error Flynn, Vincent Price and DL fave Olivia deHavilland.

I haven’t gone through all the posts before submitting this one.

It is interesting that it turned out that Nanette Fabray survived two television daughters. I am referring to Bonnie Franklin (who died in 2013) and Mary Tyler Moore (who died in 2017).

Her biggest Broadway success was 1947's High Button Shoes, introducing Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me" and "I Still Get Jealous," which both became huge stand-alone hits and were recorded by many popular singers of the day. The musical was filmed with Nanette for TV in 1956, by which time she had become a familiar name to American audiences through her appearances in The Bnadwagon and Sid Caesar's TV show.

She didn't win a Tony for that performance (it was the first year of the Tonys) but did win for Love Life, a lesser hit, 2 years later in 1949.

r100

You should have.

Shelley was much better and the world will be sad when she dies. No one even knows who No-nose Fabray is.

She was 97 and mugging until the final, bitter end.

My mom always said she had a bad nose job. It has stuck with me since.

Deaf in one ear. If I'm paying to see a Broadway show, I want a whole person.

R106, Both Rex Harrison and Hume Cronyn were blind in one eye . . . and then there was Sammy Davis.

R103, You're an idiot.

This is really sad, about her nose: "Fabray also coped with her ambitious mother's desire to improve her appearance. She told The Times that her mother wasn't happy with her pug nose and took her to a plastic surgeon, who put in a metal bridge; the bridge was later removed in an operation. She had a final operation to try to bring her nose back to it's [sic] natural shape. Each nose job made Nanette Fabray's nose smaller. "

[quote] Fun Fact. Bonnie Franklin handpicked Nanny to play her mom.

In the '70s, I took my mom to see a touring production of "No No, Nanette." Nanette was played by Bonnie Franklin, and Nanette Fabray played the Ruby Keeler role. So they had worked together previously.

^^ And the Helen Gallagher role was played by Cloris Leachman's sister.^^

Claiborne Cary? ^^^

Yes, R112.

I didn't know Claiborne was also a dancer.

I'm watching it again r53. The humor isn't dated. The convention they're parodying is. Imagine a contemporary sketch comedy take on those early live TV productions that had to plow ahead no matter what befell them. Their comedic performances are so finely calibrated and I think remain fresh.

Thread title should have said Deaf and Dead to me.

R114, I don't remember Claiborne doing a lot of dancing in the role, but then, it was a very long time ago. I do remember that Nanette did the two extended tap sequences that had been put in the show for Ruby Keeler.

Helen Gallagher!

Right.....

Remember her on Hollywood Squares, running amongst the squares in a miniskirt.

Valerie is on The Talk on Friday so one last chance to pay tribute to me. If she says nothing we are done.

Valerie won't say a word just like she didn't do squat to promote the DVD.

Not in her best interest.