Personal Life
Fabray's first husband, Dave Tebet, was a Vice-President of NBC. Her second husband was screenwriter Ranald MacDougall, who numbered Mildred Pierce and Cleopatra among his credits, and who served as President of the Writers Guild of America in the early 1970s. The couple was married from 1957 until his death in 1973. They had one child.
Fabray is a resident of Pacific Palisades, California.
In 2001, she wrote to advice columnist Dear Abby to decry the loud background music used on television programs.
Fabray is the aunt of singer/actress Shelley Fabares.
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