She had a funny habit of calling Brighton "Schmooey" from time to time, because she thought it was her real name. She also earned a bond as a grandmother to Maxwell's three children from her first marriage: Maggie, Brighton, and Gracie. Of all the fictional pop-culture figures that have had an influence on modern fashion, very few have done it quite like The Nannys Fran Fine. When Fran, who finally married Maxwell Sheffield, and her new family moved to California from New York, Yetta left with them. The widow Yetta found love with a man named Sammy, and although they were engaged, she never married him on the show (Sammy was played by Ray Charles ). When Fran was giving birth, Yetta and Sylvia joined her in her bed in a celebration of three generations of "Fine women."Īs Fran became part of the Sheffield family, so was Yetta. Fran called her "Yettie" and the affection was reciprocated. Yetta really loved her granddaughter, whom she called "Frannie". She, like her daughter, is pleased that Fran had found such gratification at work, after being fired from the bridal shop where she had worked. This was a result of her senility, and one of the performance gags of the show was the fact that she always assumed this, no matter how many times Fran told her that she and Sheffield weren't married. After Fran started working for Maxwell Sheffield, Yetta incorrectly assumed that they were married and that the three children were Fran's. She was often seen with a cigarette in her hand and, despite her age, she was a voracious smoker. She lived in a retirement home, and would often visit the Sheffield mansion where Fran worked as a babysitter.
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Yetta was the often forgetful and senile mother of Sylvia Fine and the grandmother of Fran Fine.
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Yetta's character was based on Fran's real-life grandmother, who passed away in 2007.
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The character was played by actress Ann Morgan Guilbert, a veteran of the Dick Van Dyke Show, in which she portrays her next door neighbor, Millie. Yetta Rosenberg is a fictional character on the television comedy The Nanny.