Nanette Fabray, Comedic Foil to Sid Caesar on TV, Dies at 97

  • A performer who could sing, dance, act and had comic timing
  • She was a Vaudeville child entertainer billed as ’Baby Nan’
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Nanette Fabray, a dancer and stage actress whose work on Sid Caesar’s pioneering television comedy shows influenced a generation of comediennes, has died. She was 97.

She died Thursday at her home in Palos Verdes, California, the New York Times reported, citing her son, Jamie MacDougall.