Nanette Ruby Bernadette Theresa (Fabares) MacDougall (1920 - 2018)

Born 27 Oct 1920 in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

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Died 22 Feb 2018 at age 97 in Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Nanette (Fabares) MacDougall is Notable.

Ruby Nanette Bernadette Theresa Fabares was born on 27 Oct 1920 in San Diego,^[1] the daughter of Raul Fabares and Lily McGovern. She was an American theater, movie and television actress who worked under the name Shelley Fabray.^[2]

In 1930, Nanette lived with her parents, Raoul B. and Lillian A. Fabares, two siblings and an aunt and uncle at 909 N. Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles. Raoul worked as an engineer on a railway.^[3]

Fabray won a Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her performance in “Love Life.” She won three Emmy Awards, as best comedienne and best actress in a supporting role in 1956 on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" and another in in the same show in 1957.^[2]

She married twice, first to David Tebet. They were divorced in 1951. Second, she married Ranald MacDougall. They had one son.^[2]

Actress Shelley Fabares is the daughter of her brother James.

Nanette died on 22 February 2018 at Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VL57-N4N : 27 November 2014), Nanette R Fabares, 27 Oct 1920; citing San Diego, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Gates, Anita "Nanette Fabray, Whose Comic Ability Shined on Stage and on TV, Dies at 97" New York Times, New York Edition February 24, 2018, Page A21.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJY-4ZV : accessed 24 February 2018), Nanette Fabares in household of Raoul B Fabares, Los Angeles (Districts 0001-0250), Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 28, sheet 11A, line 39, family 322, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 133; FHL microfilm 2,339,868.

   Raoul B Fabares, 44 b. Louisiana; Lillian A Fabares, 41 b. Louisiana; James A Fabares, 20 b. Louisiana; Naomi R Fabares, 19 b. Louisiana; Nanette Fabares, 9 b. California; sister Eleanor Mcgirk, 35 b. Louisiana; Brother-in-law John P Mcgirk, 41 b. California. Eleanor and Raoul's mother and Lillian's parents were all born in Louisiana, but Eleanor and Raoul's father was born in France.

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