Roberta Shore

Roberta Shore, an American actress and performer, was born in Monterey Park and appeared in several Walt Disney productions that featured the Mouseketeers, a group she once tried out for. She played Laura Rogan, Annette Funicello's rival in the self-titled Annette series, and Franceska in The Shaggy Dog (1959). In 1964 she supplied the voice of a Swiss yodeler for the it's a small world attraction. Her film work also took in Blue Denim, a cameo in A Summer Place, Because They're Young, The Young Savages (1961) and an uncredited part in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. On television she had regular roles in The New Bob Cummings Show and Father Knows Best, appeared on Playhouse 90 and The Donna Reed Show, and worked in Western series including Maverick and Wagon Train. She is best known as Betsy Garth on The Virginian through its first four seasons. Her final film credit was the 1974 short Cipher in the Snow.