Beginning in the 1980s, when she played the controlling working-class mother of the oddball postal carrier Cliff Clavin on "Cheers," she sailed through a period of playing maternal figures i…
Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for "Show Boat," "The Music Man" and "Mary Poppins."
The actor's quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century
Nanette Fabray, whose enthusiastic charm, wide smile and diverse talents made her a Tony Award-winning performer in the 1940s and an Emmy Award-winning comic actress in the 1950s, died on Th…