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Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (/ ˌ f æ b ə ˈ r eɪ /; born January 19, 1944) is a retired American actress and singer.She is known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach (1989–1997), the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations.
Funicello's close friend Shelley Fabares also appeared in the profile piece. [35] [36] On April 8, 2013, Funicello died at age 70 at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, California, from complications attributed to multiple sclerosis. Her family and Fabares were with her when she died. [37]
Petersen with The Donna Reed Show co-stars (L–R) Donna Reed, Carl Betz, and Shelley Fabares, 1958. He is a board member of the Donna Reed Foundation and works for the Donna Reed Festival, which takes place annually on the third week of June in Reed's hometown of Denison, Iowa.
Shelley Fabares, who had previously guest-starred as Ann's rival co-worker Francine Webster, appeared more frequently, eventually becoming a regular. Nanette Fabray , who played Ann's mother, also made more frequent appearances before becoming a regular cast member in the final season.
With Bob Hope and Jo Stafford, 1961 With Shelley Fabares in The Donna Reed Show, 1959 Evy Norlund and James Darren on their honeymoon in Rome in 1960. Darren was third billed in the surf film, Gidget (1959), starring Sandra Dee and Cliff Robertson, playing Moondoggie, essentially the film's leading man. He also sang the title track.
The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff.
Shelley Duvall and public scrutiny In an April 2024 interview with the New York Times , Duvall reflected on being a star with leading roles and what contributed to walking away from it all.
She was written into the cast as Trisha, an adopted child after Shelley Fabares left the series. [3] She stayed with the show until it ended in 1966. After many commercials and industrial films, she semi-retired to marry and rear a family of her own. She was a country songwriter/singer for a while. [1]