Nanette Fabray

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Nanette Fabray (* 27. October 1920 as Nanette Ruby Bernadette Fabares in San Diego , California ; † 22. February 2018 in Palos Verdes Estates , California) was an American actress , dancer and singer .

life and career

Nanette Fabray was born in San Diego in 1920. Even as a child she was regularly seen in vaudeville shows and appeared together with renowned artists such as Ben Turpin and Bill Robinson . She could also be heard on the radio. She studied at Max Reinhardt's Theater School in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High School with other child actors, from which she graduated in 1939.

In the same year she also made her first film appearances, including in the role of a lady- in- waiting in the drama A Queen's Favorite at the side of Bette Davis , Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland . After three films in 1939, Fabray turned to the theater in the 1940s, where she appeared in the hit play Meet the People , among other things . As a singer she worked with Erich Wolfgang Korngold , among others , and sang several of his lied compositions. While studying at the Juilliard School in New York , she appeared in her first Broadway play , the musical Let's Face It! with Danny Kaye and Eve Arden . This was followed by other Broadway musicals such as By Jupiter (1942), Jackpot (1944) and High Button Shoes (1947), which made Fabray a Broadway star. Fabray won a Tony Award in 1949 for her leading role in Kurt Weill's musical Love Life .

In 1953 Fabray played her most famous film role as Lily Marton in Vincente Minnelli's film musical Curtain! with Fred Astaire . In this film she sang together with the other main actors also the song That's Entertainment , which ranked 45 of the 100 greatest movie hits from the American Film Institute has been selected. While her film appearances continued to be rare thereafter, she turned mainly to emerging television. She made guest appearances in numerous shows. For her appearance as partner of Sid Caesar on the television series Caesar's Hour , she won three Emmy Awards , including for Best Comedian .

Her trademarks were mainly energetic and quick-witted women. She has also appeared as a guest on many quiz shows as well as the television shows of Dinah Shore , Andy Williams , Bob Hope , Dean Martin and Carol Burnett . Despite her television career, she remained connected to the theater, including appearances in the Broadway comedies Mr. President (1962-1963; the last show by Irving Berlin ) and No Hard Feelings (1973). After her role as grandmother in the television series One Day at a Time between 1979 and 1984, she increasingly withdrew from show business.

Fabray had to wear a hearing aid since the 1950s because of severe hearing problems; since then she has also been strongly committed to improvements in this area. Her second marriage was from 1957 until his death in 1973 with the filmmaker Ranald MacDougall ; they had a child. Fabray died in February 2018 at the age of 97.

Awards

Throughout her career Fabray has received numerous awards: For Love Life , she won 1949 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical . At the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1956 she received two of the coveted television awards, and at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1957 the following year she won a third Emmy. In 1960 she received the Golden Apple Award from journalists , and in 1986 she received a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award from the Drama Union . Nanette Fabray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her television work .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nanette Fabray. The New York Times , 2010, archived from the original on November 1, 2015 ; accessed on February 24, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Anita Gates: Nanette Fabray, Star of TV and Stage Comedies, Dies at 97 . The New York Times, February 23, 2018, accessed February 24, 2018.
    US actress - Nanette Fabray has died at the age of 97. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 25, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fabray, Nanette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fabares, Nanette Ruby Bernadette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2018
Place of death Palos Verdes Estates , California , United States