Reta Shaw

Reta Shaw is best known to television audiences as Hope Langes 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.Date of Birth 13 September 1912,, South Paris, MaineDate of Death 8 January 1982, Encino, California  (emphysema)

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