Roberta Shore

Roberta Jymme Schourop (born April 7, 1943, Monterey Park, California), better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Though never a Mouseketeer, Shore co-starred in several Walt Disney productions featuring the Mouseketeers, and thus came to be associated with them. She appeared as Annette Funicello's rival Laura Rogan in Annette's self-titled series, and as French-speaking Franceska in "The Shaggy Dog".

Aside from Disney, Shore had a featured role in the 1959 screen version of "Blue Denim", duetting with Warren Berlinger, and an uncredited cameo appearance in "A Summer Place", as Sandra Dee's gossipy schoolmate Anne Talbert. Later she played Ricky Summers in the 1960 movie "Because They're Young", and had another uncredited role, as Lorna in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 version of "Lolita".

Shore's television credits include an appearance on "Playhouse 90", "The Donna Reed Show", several Western series including "Maverick", "Wagon Train", and "Laramie", a regular role on "The New Bob Cummings Show", and as Betsy Garth, the niece of Judge Henry Garth, on NBC's 90-minute "The Virginian" with James Drury and a varying cast, including Gary Clarke, and singer Randy Boone.

After the mid-1960s, Shore did little in the way of movies or television. She emerged in 1984 as a radio disc jockey and program host in Salt Lake City, Utah. Active in the Latter-Day Saints Church [ [http://www.ldsfilm.com/bio/bioS2.html Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: S ] ] , Shore and then-husband Ron Frederickson auditioned for the parts of Ishmael and his wife Leah in a 2004 of the "Book of Mormon". While her husband won the role of Ishmael, the producers felt Shore's earlier fame would detract from the movie's message, and chose actress Sheryl Lee Wilson to play Leah.

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