Reta Shaw
After establishing herself on the stage, Reta Shaw moved into films and television series, playing matronly characters accentuated by her full figure. Originally from Maine, she made her way to the New York stage in the mid 1940s, appearing in Broadway musicals including "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Her first screen appearances were for television series in the early '50s, before transferring her theatrical characters to feature parts in the drama "Picnic" and the Doris Day-starring musical comedy "The Pajama Game." She would work mainly in TV afterward, with the exception of a few supporting parts in such popular films as "Pollyanna" and "Mary Poppins." Through the '60s, Shaw showed up in countless comedy series, often repeatedly, working with such legends as Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, and Red Skelton. Her most high-profile role came as the housekeeper in "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir," the sitcom about a family haunted by the spirit of a 19th-century ship captain. After that show ran its two seasons, Shaw continued to appear in guest spots on other series, though she finished her career in a supporting part as a teacher in the supernatural drama "Escape to Witch Mountain."
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Reta Shaw
Filmography
Movies
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73% |
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Escape to Witch Mountain | Mrs. Grindley (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped | Miss Markin (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? | Mrs. Guzmando (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Murder Once Removed | Nurse Regis (Character) | - | 1971 |
67% |
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken | Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Marriage on the Rocks | Saleslady at Saks (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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That Funny Feeling | Woman at Phone Booth (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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A Global Affair | Nurse Argyle (Character) | - | 1964 |
97% |
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Mary Poppins | Mrs. Brill (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Bachelor in Paradise | Mrs. Brown (Character) | - | 1961 |
86% |
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Pollyanna | Tillie Lagerlof (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lady Takes a Flyer | Nurse Kennedy (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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All Mine to Give | Mrs. Runyon (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man Afraid | Nurse Willis (Character) | - | 1957 |
50% |
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Picnic | Irma Kronkite (Character) | $24.0K | 1955 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Wonderful World | Mrs. Grindley (Character) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Days | Mrs. McCarthy (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Princess (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Odd Couple | Claire Frost (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Bewitched | Aunt Hagatha (Guest Star) | 1964-1966 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Me and the Chimp | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Unknown (Character) | 1968-1970 |
No Score Yet | 58% | I Dream of Jeannie | Colonel Abigail Finch (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Myrtle (Guest Star) | 1967 |
10% | No Score Yet | The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love on a Rooftop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | 76% | Lost in Space | Aunt Clara Simms (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Dawn McCracken (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Eleanora Poultice (Guest Star) | 1962 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer's Daughter | Elsa (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lloyd Bridges Show | Mrs. Ardmore (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ann Sothern Show | Flora McCauley (Character) | 1958-1961 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Martha Stone (Character) | 1956 |