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Emmy and Tony-winning actress Nanette Fabray has passed away.<\/p>\n
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Ms Fabray began her acting career in vaudeville and Broadway during the 1940’s, having been taught tap=-dancing and show-business by her mother while a young child. Fabray was diagnosed with a hearing impairment in her 20’s, and spent a lot of her life advocating for the rights of hard-of-hearing people. She appeared on stage alongside Bette Davis at the age of 19, as well as a couple of films for Warner Bros, A Child Is Born<\/em> and The Monroe Doctrine<\/em>, both in 1939, Fabray would also be trained in opera at Julliard and appeared with Danny Kaye and Eve Arden in a 1941 Broadway production of “Let’s Face It!” by Cole Porter, and would go on to snag a Tony Award for her portrayal of Susan Cooper in the musical “Life,” in 1949.<\/p>\n Ms Fabray’s film and television work included appearances on high profile shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> and Your Show Of Shows<\/em>, and was a regular on Caesar’s Hour<\/em> between 1954 and 1956, winning three Emmys. She played a matriarch figure on shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and Coach<\/em>, and guested heavily on The Carol Burnett Show<\/em> and The Dean Martin Show<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n Ms Fabray’s most memorable big-screen role was alongside Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan in The Band Wagon<\/em><\/a>, in 1953, and further film appearances included The Happy Ending<\/em> (1969), Amy<\/em> (1981), and 1994’s Teresa’s Tattoo<\/em>.<\/p>\n Nanette Fabray passed away on February 22nd, aged 97.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emmy and Tony-winning actress Nanette Fabray has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":50612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",1278,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos-768x433.jpg",640,361,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos-720x406.jpg",640,361,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",1278,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",1278,720,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",1024,577,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",540,304,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",24,14,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",48,27,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",96,54,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",150,85,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos.jpg",300,169,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nanette-fabray-muerta-la-estrella-de-cesars-hour-tenia-97-anos-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/e1f588bf865ee48356424966c40d12fc-the-heroes-the-band.jpg\")