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Reta Shaw

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Reta Shaw (September 13, 1912 – January 8, 1982) was an American character actress known for playing authoritarian women, housekeepers, and domineering wives, especially on television. [1]

79 relations: A Global Affair, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, All Mine to Give, American Broadcasting Company, Annie Get Your Gun (musical), Anthology series, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Bachelor in Paradise (film), Barney Fife, Barton MacLane, Bewitched, Boston, Broadway theatre, Cara Williams, CBS, Character actor, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Cremation, Emergency!, Encino, Los Angeles, Ernest Truex, Escape to Witch Mountain, Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film), Find a Grave, Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Gale Gordon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical), George Chandler, Happy Days, Harry Morgan, Hermione Baddeley, Hollywood Hills, I Dream of Jeannie, I Spy (1965 TV series), Ichabod and Me, Leland Powers School, Lost in Space, Made in Paris, Maine, Man Afraid, Marriage on the Rocks, Mary Martin, Mary Poppins (film), Massachusetts, Mister Peepers, My Three Sons, NBC, New England, Orchestra, Outlaws (1960 TV series), ..., Pete and Gladys, Picnic (1955 film), Picnic (play), Pollyanna (1960 film), Robert Sterling, Sanctuary (1961 film), Sitcom, South Paris, Maine, Television, That Funny Feeling, That Girl, The Andy Griffith Show, The Ann Sothern Show, The Brian Keith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series), The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Lady Takes a Flyer, The Lloyd Bridges Show, The Loved One (film), The Lucy Show, The Millionaire (TV series), The New York Times, The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), The Pajama Game, The Pajama Game (film), The Tab Hunter Show, Wagon Train, Western (genre). Expand index (29 more) »

A Global Affair

A Global Affair is a 1964 film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Bob Hope, Michele Mercier, Yvonne De Carlo, and Elga Andersen.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series that was hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; the program aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965.

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All Mine to Give

All Mine to Give (British title: The Day They Gave Babies Away) is a 1957 Technicolor melodrama film starring Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, and Rex Thompson.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Annie Get Your Gun (musical)

Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields.

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Anthology series

An anthology series is a radio, television or book series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each episode or season/series.

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Armstrong Circle Theatre

Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS.

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Bachelor in Paradise (film)

Bachelor in Paradise is a 1961 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film starring Bob Hope and Lana Turner.

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Barney Fife

Bernard "Barney" P. Milton Oliver Fife is a fictional character in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts.

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Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane (December 25, 1902 – January 1, 1969) was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Bewitched

Bewitched is an American television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964 to March 25, 1972.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Cara Williams

Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; June 29, 1925) is an American film and television actress.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Character actor

A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term breathing problems and poor airflow.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Emergency!

Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres.

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Encino, Los Angeles

Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Ernest Truex

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Escape to Witch Mountain

Escape to Witch Mountain is a science fiction novel written by Alexander H. Key in 1968.

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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975 film)

Escape to Witch Mountain is a 1975 American fantasy-children's film, adapted from the science fiction novel written by Alexander H. Key in 1968.

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Find a Grave

Find A Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records.

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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California.

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Gale Gordon

Gale Gordon (born Charles Thomas Aldrich, Jr., February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor perhaps best remembered as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil—and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J. Mooney, on Ball's second television situation comedy, The Lucy Show.

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos.

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George Chandler

George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985) was an American actor best known for playing the character of "Uncle Petrie Martin" on the CBS television series Lassie.

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Happy Days

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984 on ABC, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning eleven seasons.

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Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.

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Hermione Baddeley

Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was an English character actress of theatre, film and television.

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Hollywood Hills

The Hollywood Hills are a part of the Santa Monica Mountains and also a hillside neighborhood of the same name in the central region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is an American fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries.

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I Spy (1965 TV series)

I Spy is an American television secret-agent buddy adventure series.

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Ichabod and Me

Ichabod and Me is an American sitcom series set in a small New England town and starring Robert Sterling and George Chandler.

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Leland Powers School

The Leland Powers School, also known as the Leland Powers School of Communication, Leland Powers School of Radio, Theatre, and Television, Leland Powers Theatre School, the Leland Powers School of Expression, Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word, and originally called the Leland Powers School of Elocution, was originally located in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and later in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Lost in Space

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen.

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Made in Paris

Made in Paris is a 1966 American romantic comedy film starring Louis Jourdan, Ann-Margret, Richard Crenna, Edie Adams and Chad Everett.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Man Afraid

Man Afraid is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Harry Keller starring George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter and Tim Hovey.

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Marriage on the Rocks

Marriage on the Rocks is a 1965 comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin about a businessman's wife who ends up divorced by mistake and then married to his best friend by an even bigger mistake.

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Mary Martin

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress, singer, and Broadway star.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mister Peepers

Mister Peepers is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from July 3, 1952, to June 12, 1955.

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My Three Sons

My Three Sons is an American sitcom.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.

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Outlaws (1960 TV series)

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. Marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory around Stillwater.

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Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys is an American sitcom television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960.

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Picnic (1955 film)

Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in Cinemascope.

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Picnic (play)

Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge.

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Pollyanna (1960 film)

Pollyanna is a 1960 Walt Disney Productions feature film, starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan, in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town.

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Robert Sterling

Robert Sterling (born William Sterling Hart; November 13, 1917 – May 30, 2006) was an American film and television actor.

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Sanctuary (1961 film)

Sanctuary is a 1961 drama film directed by Tony Richardson.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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South Paris, Maine

South Paris is a census-designated place (CDP) located within the town of Paris in Oxford County, Maine, in the United States.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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That Funny Feeling

That Funny Feeling is a 1965 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, and Donald O'Connor.

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That Girl

That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color.

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The Ann Sothern Show

The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom starring Ann Sothern that aired on CBS for 93 episodes.

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The Brian Keith Show

The Brian Keith Show (originally titled The Little People) is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 1972 to March 1974.

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The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons.

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The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)

The Ghost & Mrs.

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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr.

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The Lady Takes a Flyer

The Lady Takes a Flyer is a 1958 American romantic drama film made by Universal Pictures.

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The Lloyd Bridges Show

The Lloyd Bridges Show is an American anthology drama series produced by Aaron Spelling, which aired on CBS from September 11, 1962 to May 28, 1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges.

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The Loved One (film)

The Loved One is a 1965 black and white comedy film about the funeral business in Los Angeles, which is based on The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948), a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh.

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The Lucy Show

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68.

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The Millionaire (TV series)

The Millionaire is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1955 to 1960.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)

The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, is an American television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC.

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The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell.

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The Pajama Game (film)

The Pajama Game is a 1957 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name.

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The Tab Hunter Show

The Tab Hunter Show is an American sitcom starring Tab Hunter.

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Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western series that aired on NBC 1957–62 and then on ABC 1962–65.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reta_Shaw

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