Reta Shaw(1912-1982)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
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.
