Nanette Fabray

from San Diego, California, USA

Artwork for That's Entertainment, Part IIImage of 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.

Timeline

2021Aged 101

  • Poster for Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

    Self

2015Aged 95

  • Poster for Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

    Self / Dottie Richards (archive footage)

2012Aged 92

  • Poster for In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

    Self

2009Aged 89

  • Poster for Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

    Self

2005Aged 85

  • Poster for Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'

    Self

  • Poster for Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale

    Self

2003Aged 83

  • Poster for Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    Self

2000Aged 80

1994Aged 74

  • Poster for Teresa's Tattoo

    Martha Mae

  • Poster for That's Entertainment! III

    (archive footage) (uncredited)

1989Aged 69

  • Poster for Personal Exemptions

    Millie McFall

1985Aged 65

  • Poster for Night of 100 Stars II

    Self

1981Aged 61

  • Poster for Amy

    Malvina

1979Aged 59

  • Poster for The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

    Dora Dayton

1978Aged 58

  • Poster for Harper Valley P.T.A.

    Alice Finely

1976Aged 56

  • Poster for That's Entertainment, Part II

    (archive footage)

1974Aged 54

  • Poster for Happy Anniversary and Goodbye

    Fay

1973Aged 53

  • Poster for The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

    Self (archive footage)

1972Aged 52

  • Poster for Magic Carpet

    Virginia Wolfe

  • Poster for The Couple Takes a Wife

    Marion Randolph

1970Aged 50

  • Poster for The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

    Sadie

  • Poster for George M!

    Nellie Cohan

  • Poster for But I Don't Want to Get Married!

    Mrs. Vale

1969Aged 49

  • Poster for The Happy Ending

    Agnes

1966Aged 46

  • Poster for Alice Through the Looking Glass

    The White Queen

  • Poster for Fame Is the Name of the Game

    Pat

1962Aged 42

  • Poster for The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

    Self

1960Aged 40

  • Poster for The Subterraneans

    Society Woman (uncredited)

1957Aged 37

  • Poster for A Man's Game

    Josephine Evans

1956Aged 36

  • Poster for The Family Nobody Wanted

    Helen Doss

1953Aged 33

  • Poster for The Band Wagon

    Lily Marton

1939Aged 19

  • Poster for The Monroe Doctrine

    Rosita De La Torre

  • Poster for The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    Mistress Margaret Radcliffe

  • Poster for A Child is Born

    Gladys Norton

1927Aged 7

  • Poster for Animal Catchers

    Baby Nanette

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