Reta Shaw is best known to television audiences as Hope Lange's housekeeper in the TV series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968). Disney fans will remember her as one of the singing domestics in the Oscar-winning masterpiece Mary Poppins (1964). While she never achieved stardom as a leading lady, she earned her place as a solid supporting player in a variety of popular, much-loved cinematic classics. She created the comic part of Mabel when the musical "The Pajama Game" opened on Broadway in 1954, a role she repeated in the film version. Date of Birth 13 September 1912,, South Paris, Maine Date of Death 8 January 1982, Encino, California (emphysema)
Movie | Escape to Witch Mountain | Mrs. Grindley | 1975-03-21 |
Movie | The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped | Miss Markin | 1974-01-29 |
Movie | Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? | Mrs. Guzmando | 1973-10-31 |
Series | Emergency! | Unknown | 1972-01-22 |
Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |
Movie | Murder Once Removed | Nurse Regis | 1971-10-29 |
Series | The Odd Couple | Unknown | 1970-09-24 |
Series | The Ghost & Mrs. Muir | 1968-09-21 | |
Series | Here's Lucy | Unknown | 1968-09-23 |
Movie | The Ghost & Mr. Chicken | Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell | 1966-01-20 |
Movie | Made in Paris | American Bar Singer | 1966-02-09 |
Series | That Girl | Unknown | 1966-09-08 |
Series | Love on a Rooftop | Unknown | 1966-09-06 |
Series | The Monkees | Unknown | 1966-09-12 |
Series | Lost in Space | Aunt Clara Simms | 1965-09-15 |
Movie | That Funny Feeling | Woman at Phone Booth | 1965-08-14 |
Series | I Dream of Jeannie | Annie | 1965-09-18 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Movie | The Loved One | Manager of The Zomba Cafe | 1965-10-11 |
Series | Bewitched | Unknown | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | Mary Poppins | Mrs. Brill | 1964-12-17 |
Series | The Patty Duke Show | Unknown | 1963-09-18 |
Series | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
Series | The Lucy Show | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
Movie | Sanctuary | Miss Reba | 1961-04-18 |
Series | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Unknown | 1961-10-03 |
Movie | Bachelor in Paradise | Mrs. Brown | 1961-11-01 |
Series | Thriller | Unknown | 1960-09-13 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Tillie Lagerlof | 1960-05-19 |
Series | The Tab Hunter Show | Thelma | 1960-09-18 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Series | Pete and Gladys | Unknown | 1960-09-19 |
Series | Outlaws | Unknown | 1960-09-26 |
Movie | Meet Me in St. Louis | Katey | 1959-04-26 |
Series | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Unknown | 1959-09-29 |
Series | The Ann Sothern Show | Flora McCauley | 1958-10-06 |
Movie | The Lady Takes a Flyer | Nurse Kennedy | 1958-01-30 |
Series | The Real McCoys | Unknown | 1957-10-03 |
Movie | Man Afraid | Nurse Willis | 1957-04-04 |
Movie | The Pajama Game | Mabel | 1957-08-29 |
Movie | All Mine to Give | Mrs. Runyon | 1957-11-13 |
Movie | Annie Get Your Gun | Dolly Tate | 1957-11-27 |
Series | The Millionaire | Unknown | 1955-01-19 |
Movie | Picnic | Irma Henderson | 1955-11-18 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | December Bride | Unknown | 1954-10-04 |