Roberta Shore

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Roberta Jymme Schourup (born April 7, 1943) better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer. She is notable for her roles in the original Shaggy Dog film and as Betsy Garth on the Western television series The Virginian. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Shore broke her contract to focus on her marriage and family, retiring at the age of 22. She lives in Utah.

Shore co-starred in several Walt Disney productions featuring the Mouseketeers, thus came to be associated with them. (She auditioned as a Mouseketeer, but was turned down because she was taller than most of the cast at the time.) She appeared as Annette Funicello’s rival Laura Rogan in Annette’s self-titled series and as French-speaking Franceska in The Shaggy Dog (1959). In 1964, she voiced a Swiss yodeler for the attraction “it’s a small world”.
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, Jenny Bell in The Young…