Shelley Fabares Net Worth

Shelley Fabares's Quotes

• There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
• I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.
• The chances of a child coming through as I did . . . the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.
• [about her liver transplant] I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
• I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

Interesting Facts about Shelley Fabares

1. Some sources give her year of birth as 1942 and others as 1946. The year on her birth certificate is 1944.
2. Niece of Nanette Fabray.
3. During the mid-1980s she and Heather Langenkamp teamed up for a Murder, She Wrote (1984)-style pilot for a TV series called Suburban Beat (1985). They were cast as housewives who solved mysteries.
4. Received a liver transplant in October 2000. Her liver failed due to an auto-immune disorder.
5. Is portrayed by Lorraine Landry in A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995)
6. Stepmother of Erin Farrell and Michael Farrell.
7. Frank Sinatra once sang to her on one of his TV specials in the 1950s.
8. Carl Betz starred as her father in The Donna Reed Show (1958) and the movie Spinout (1966).
9. Her' three movies with Elvis Presley--Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966) and Clambake (1967)--were not the only associations she had had with "The King." When her one-hit-wonder "Johnny Angel" topped the charts on April 7, 1962, she was ousted from the #1 position two weeks later by Presley's "Good Luck Charm." The two future co-stars held the #1 and #2 chart positions through late April into May 1962. Incidentally, backing Fabares on "Johnny Angel" were Glen Campbell (guitar), Hal Blaine (drums), The Blossoms (backing vocals), etc.
10. Her sister, Smokey Fabares, gave her away at her marriage to Mike Farrell.
11. Considered Donna Reed as her second mother.
12. Her mother died from Alzheimer's.
13. Appeared with her aunt, Nanette Fabray, on One Day at a Time (1975) and the April 15, 1975 episode of The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965) and three episodes of Coach (1989).
14. Profiled in the 2016 book, "X Child Stars: Where Are They Now?", by Kathy Garver and Fred Ascher.