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Nanette Fabray
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American actress, singer and dancer (1920-2018)
Film & TV
San Diego, California, USA
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.
Known for
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self2021
- Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration — Self / Dottie Richards (archive footage)2015
- In the Beginning: The Caesar Years — Self2012
- Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression — Self2009
- Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon' — Self2005
- Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale — Self2005
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self2003
- The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV — Self2000
- The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room — Herself2000
- The Sid Caesar Collection: Creating the Comedy — Herself2000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bernadette
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Diego
- Place of death
- Palos Verdes Peninsula
- Occupation
- dancer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Student of
- Max Reinhardt
- Field of work
- dance
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Nanette Fabray 1963.JPG
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- Commons category
- Nanette Fabray
- date of birth
- 1920-01-01
- medical condition
- deafness
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- date of death
- 2018-01-01
- name in native language
- Nanette Fabray
- cause of death
- disease
- start of work period
- 1924-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Ruby Bernadette Nanette Therese Fabares
- manner of death
- natural causes
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