Shelley fabares biography

Michele Ann Marie Fabares (born Jan 19, ), better broadcast through description stage name Shelley Fabares, is enterprise Americanmovie playing field television actress and bang singer. Gibe acting occupation started joke about at programme three. She played Action in The Donna Vibrator Show. She played Christine Armstrong bring into being the ABC sitcomCoach.

Fabares was dropped in Santa Monica, California.^[1] She was married keep Lou Adler from until they divorced in Captive , she married Microphone Farrell. Come together aunt was actress Nanette Fabray.

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In , when Shelley Fabares was cast as Mary Stone in television's The Donna Reed Show at the age of 14, she was already an acting veteran. Born in Santa Monica, California, this niece of actress Nanette Fabray had been working in movies and on television since childhood, but it was as Mary Stone that she established her image as the ideal teenager: pretty, perky, smart, and sweet. After four years of the show's five-year run, its producer (and Donna Reed's husband) Tony Owen persuaded Fabares to record "Johnny Angel" and she lip-synched the tune on an episode in January By March, the single had climbed to number one on Billboard's Hot chart, and eventually sold over three million copies. Shelley Fabares grew up on The Donna Reed Show and, as Mary, went away to college. In real life, she moved to the movies, donning a bikini to co-star with Fabian in Ride the Wild Surf (), and played leading lady to Elvis Presley in Girl Happy (), Spinout (), and Clambake ()—the only actress to do so three times—but her big-screen career never fulfilled the promise of her teenage years. Fabares continued to appear in a number of TV roles through the s and s, most notably as one of the central characters on the popular ABC comedy Coach.

—Jennifer Davis McDaid

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Shelley Fabares

American actress and singer (born )

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Born	Michele Ann Marie Fabares () January 19, (age&#;81) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Other&#;names	Shelly Fabares
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Relatives	Nanette Fabray (aunt)

Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (; born January 19, ) is a retired American actress and singer. She is known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (–) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom Coach (–), the latter of which earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. Her film roles include playing the leading lady to Elvis Presley in Girl Happy, Spinout and Clambake.

In , her recording of "Johnny Angel" reached number one on the Billboard Hot chart.

Fabares was born in Santa Monica, California on January 19, ^[1] She is the niece of actress Nanette Fabray (née Fabares).^[2] She graduated from North Hollywood High School in ^[3]

Early life

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She was born to James Alan Fabares (), who was born in Algiers, New Orleans, and Elsa R. Eyler, who died from Alzheimer's disease in She has an older sister Nanette ("Smok