Reta Shaw's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Martha Grant Ichabod and Me Aunt Lavinia Matt Lincoln Mrs. Tweed Love On A Rooftop Lillian The ABC Afternoon Playbreak Mrs. Tusher The Cara Williams Show Mrs. Martha… The Tab Hunter Show Thelma

Main Movie Roles 1975 - Escape to Witch Mountain 1965 - That Funny Feeling 1965 - The Loved One 1964 - Mary Poppins 1960 - Pollyanna 1957 - The Pajama Game 1955 - Picnic

BIOGRAPHY:

Reta Shaw is best known to television audiences as Hope Lange's housekeeper in the TV series "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" (1968). Disney fans will remember her as one of the singing domestics in the Oscar-winning masterpiece Mary Poppins (1964). While she never achieved stardom as a leading lady, she earned her place as a solid supporting player in a variety of popular, much-loved cinematic classics. She created the comic part of Mabel when the musical "The Pajama Game" opened on Broadway in 1954, a role she repeated in the film version.


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