American actress (b. 1943)

Roberta Jymme Schourop (born April 7, 1943, Monterey Park, California), better known as Roberta S*, is a retired American actress and performer.

Career

S* co-starred in several Walt Disney productions featuring the Mouseketeers, thus came to be *ociated with them. (She auditioned as a Mouseketeer, but was turned down because she was taller than most of the cast at the time. "I towered over them!" she recalled years later.) She appeared as Annette Funicello's rival Laura Rogan in Annette's self-*led series and as French-speaking Franceska in The Shaggy Dog (1959).

Aside from Disney, S* 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 Savages (1961), and in an uncredited role as Lorna in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 version of Lolita.

S*'s television credits include appearances on Playhouse 90, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna Reed Show, The Lawrence Welk Show (a singing appearance in 1959), several Western series including Maverick, Wagon Train, The Tall Man, Laramie, and Lawman, and regular roles on Father Knows Best (as Joyce, Bud Anderson's girl friend) and The New Bob *mings Show. In 1962, she starred alongside Candy Moore in a failed television pilot Time Out for Ginger.

S* featured prominently as a series regular within the first four seasons of The Virginian as Betsy Garth, the daughter of Shiloh Ranch owner Judge Garth played by Lee J. Cobb.

Roberta S* with Bob *mings on The New Bob *mings Show, 1961

After the mid-1960s, S* did little in the way of movies or television. She became active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She re-emerged in 1984 as a radio disc jockey and program host in Salt Lake City, Utah. S* and her husband, Ron Frederickson, auditioned for the parts of Ishmael and his wife Leah in The Book of Mormon Movie (2004). Frederickson was in the film, but the producers did not cast S*.

References

External links

• Roberta S* at IMDb
• Roberta S* profile
• Interview with Roberta S* at Cl*ic Film & TV Cafe
• Roberta S* Fan Club https://m.facebook.com/robertas*fanclub/