Part 2 Actress Shelley Fabares "Donna Reed" interview with host Frankie Verroca

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Published 2011-08-18
www.facebook.com/frankieverroca Starting work at age 3, Shelley talks about being shy and reserved and her "growing up years"as a child actress, her school days in Hollywood, working with Rock Hudson in "Never Say Goodbye" and at age 14 her starring role as Mary Stone on TV in "The Donna Reed Show" back in 1958.

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  • @applepiebetty
    I watched" The Donna Reed show, regularly"  and loved it, but really enjoyed it when Shelly started singing on it.  My sister and I still today sing "Johnny Angle" as a duet and then laugh at how we use to sing it in front of family at family gatherings. We were such hams and dreamers.
  • @tazzy006007
    Watching Donna Reed on ME Channel and loving it. Wish the values were the same now as they were back then.
  • @avisswope6495
    I WATCHED THE DONNA REED SHOW GROWING UP IT WAS EXCELLENT.
  • @pocopico7409
    Her beauty always stood out of course, especially her beautiful smile. She looked like the sweetest thing ever! And amazingly, she STILL has that sweet, beautiful smile. 😊
  • @Jayla60
    I enjoyed this interview. Shelley is a great talent. So sweet what she said about Donna Reed.
  • @LaceyLynn
    I absolutely love the Donna Reed Show! Thank you, TV Gods, for putting it on Hulu so I could watch it for the first time and everyday since then! Please please please release the sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons because I haven't seen them!
  • @joanpellillo2981
    We loved you a on Donna reed Show - still love watching..... thank you for sharing your talent with all of us....
  • @kevindoran9271
    Shelley was always beautiful. Mike is a lucky guy!I have to add this. I had a chance to talk to Paul Peterson once and he was so nice. I reminded him of the episode where he was singing and vacuming the rug while dancing with the vacume cleaner. He laughed and told me what we didn't see. In one take he slipped and the vacume cleaner handle nailed him in the crotch. He swore he sang soprano for a week! LOL! And by the way Donna was eternally gorgeous.
  • @lorianne4608
    The episode where Mary’s nose grew was hilarious!
  • @angeladay9073
    Yip,....i love the show, its great to watch it all again, on utube channel, Shelly,....you & Paul Petersen singing,...beautifully,...& WOW !,...id so love to have had my mother, be as like your acting mother Donna Reed, a role model mother, for sure, Shelly. I love hearing your interviews, a beautiful person, I'd love to have you in my life. I take it you are Catholic,...I've heard a lot of these outs body experiences,...but it doesn't happen to everyone, I nearly died, having an emergency C. Section, I was in I.C.U. for five days, & my & one of my brothers actually had died for 3minutes on His big operation, & he never had such as an outer body experience,...my only eldest sister still living experienced, wot you had Shelly, I've learnt it's the type of anesthetic one has that makes this happen,...I've found all this out, from proving things, as I'm of the Seventh Day Adventist Faith, & I see wot the bible tells me, not becos I'm an S.D.A. Christian, but wot the bible tells me, no person when they die goes to heaven, Jesus Himself speaks about that death is a sleep, an unconscious sleep until Jesus comes back to earth, to resurrect His then Saints, home to Heaven & then this ole earth will be renewed, as it was in the garden of Eden before sin happened, as the serpent worked on Eve, to sin & disobey God, this is why this world is in a hectic mess, we have disease that comes upon any of us, even those that obey God's word, God answers people's prayers to be healed, sometimes God does sometimes He makes people wait in due season of time, for the answer,...some Christians may have to wait till heaven, the bible tells us certain reasons we don't know why God doesn't heal, everyone,...only if we are in the first ressurrection to eternal life, do we have all eternity to find things out & all our reasons of wondering why, some people didn't get healed, while in His presence, but that ole serpent satan called the dragon works healings to deceive people to,...as in the Bible Pharohs magicians were able to perform miracles in Moses sight as well,....but God won the battle in Egypt,....I want to be in Heaven with you with the many Johnny Angels there will be in Heaven,.....Dear Shelly, my plea to you is start reading the gospel of John & the main chapter (John 3 : 16.)& onward. Many churches don't teach the truth of God's word, which is very very sad, as they will be accountable on the judgement day, wot will happen to those who rejected the truth of His word in the Bible,....this world's religion has hid truth from God's people, during the reformation, that is wot people, stood up for, against the heiarchy of the truth, not being taught the common people the whole truth in English, this is why Rome taught preached in Latin to the common people,....& the were none of the wiser, to even inquire, so the great reformers taught the people but suffered & died for the truth, Jesus tells us the truth shall set us free,...even unto death for it, as there's a better world to come no more murders no more people having to go through this world's turmoils, personally feeling all is lost, & no more governments defiling themselves against God's government,...cos the Bible, tells me the final government, King Jesus rules wen evil is dealt with, Shelly. GODBLESS YOU, im told in His world to share this good mess of Jesus Christ to, people, so they maybe set free, if they choose Jesus or not,...but if I don't share His msge of Hope, I cud miss out on eternal life to.
  • @hebneh
    I remember hearing an interview she did in the 1970s about being forced to sing, and the first test recordings she did were “just awful”. She ended up with a huge hit regardless.
  • @cbass2755
    So happy she said it’s not for children…what we know today…Omg….she is lucky she had a great experience
  • Love Shelley in the Donna Reed Show, and she is a doll beautiful girl she had the Magic the glitter and then when she sang her song that was it Shelley all the way what a voice she great. But the four in the show brought the magic for me the best show ever until Shelley left the show😩, that was it patty Peterson was brought in I think to replace Shelley. I think that was a bad move cause Shelley can't be replaced, they should of just let the family continue and maybe Shelley could of made time to time guest appearances. Love you Shelley ❤️❤️❤️ no one could ever replace her, again one great wonderful singer.
  • @dancejr1234
    It's the song called Johnny Angel? ?? Not Johnny Angle lol lol
  • @10.11.9
    I'd have never guessed Shelley Fabares has pink hair. 😐
  • your so good looking ljust keep your hair brown the cindy loper look no