Actress Nanette Fabray, who won Tony and Emmy awards, dies at 97
by Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Feb 24, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Nanette Fabray, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comedy star whose work with Sid Caesar on the classic 1950s TV comedy-variety show "Caesar's Hour" earned her three Emmy Awards and a lifetime of television work, has died. She was 97.
Fabray, whose early hearing problem spurred her to become a high-profile advocate for the hearing impaired, died Thursday of natural causes in Rancho Palos Verdes on the west side of Los Angeles, her son, Jamie MacDougall, said.
Fabray had won a Tony for best actress in the 1949 musical "Love Life" and appeared in the 1953 MGM musical "The Band Wagon" - in which she, Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan performed the famous "Triplets" number as "three
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