Nanette Fabray Appreciation Thread

[romantico]

Posted: 8/20/08 at 9:44pm

I just love Nanette!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed20zDsZEZU



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjW_yvrC0cE

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/20/08 at 9:47pm

While I acknowledge her prolific theater and movie career, my first memories of her were as Bonnie Franklin's mother on the sitcom One Day At A Time.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/20/08 at 9:56pm

I saw the scene as the Triplets from The Band Wagon when I was a kid and it gave me nightmares. My Mom still talks about how terrified I was. That was my first memory of Nanette. Strange, but I always felt there was a striking resemblance between her and Kathleen Robertson.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/20/08 at 10:15pm

Nanette, Dinah Shore and the chorus boys perform exercises and sing Meredith Willson's "Chicken Fat"--the theme song for President Kennedy's 1961 Council on Physical Fitness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHbQqthU4M

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:14am

met her at SFO when I was a kid....long story, embarrassing moment

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:15am

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:16am

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:17am

Shelly, however is looking pretty nasty

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:27am

Ethan Mordden said it best when he wrote: "Those who have never seen her in a musical have nothing to tell their grandchildren."

If you go to www.bluegobo.com, you can find clips of her singing numbers from "Love Life" and "High Button Shoes"!

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:31am

This has always been my favorite of hers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyowWmun1Y

She's the "belter's belter" in this one. She really knocks it out of the park at the end.

And I love the "summer stock" look, and the '50s Michael Kidd choreography.

Ya can't beat it!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:04pm

I LOVE her Louisiana Hayride! Sometimes I hear her singing it in my dreams.

Elphaba--that's Cyd Charisse with Fred, not Nanette.

And bluegobo has her singing "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me" with Ed Sullivan--and getting him to polka!

http://bluegobo.com/production.php?var=10194&mode=P&vid=0

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:48pm

oops, did a search by her name and that came up....thought it looked odd

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:43pm

She annoyed the crap outta me on One Day at a Time.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 8/22/08 at 5:20pm

I was trying to find a clip from this really lousy tv special that she was terrific in ("Through the Looking Glass" that had a score by flop-meiser Moose Charlap) and found this fascinating interview with her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFN3IQFJ8c