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Shelley Fabares
Shelley Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer.
Born Michelle Ann Marie Fabares in Santa Monica, California, she is the niece of actress Nanette Fabray. She got her big break in the role of the teenage daughter on the 1958 television family sitcom, The Donna Reed Show. Her national popularity led to a recording contract and she had two "Top 40" hits including "Johnny Angel" that went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April of 1962. Fabares left the TV show for a career in film and starred in a number of motion pictures including three Elvis Presley movies: Girl Happy (1965), Spinout (1966) and Clambake (1967).
In later years she returned to television, most notably in the role of love-interest/wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the 1989 TV sitcom, Coach
Married to actor Mike Farrell, in October of 2000 she received a life-saving liver transplant after being diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis that destroyed her liver.
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