Career
Though never a Mouseketeer, Shore co-starred in several Walt Disney productions featuring the Mouseketeers, and thus came to be associated with them. 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.
In 1957, Shore played the role of popular literary detective Nancy Drew in a 1957 pilot for Columbia Broadcasting System. The project was not picked up due to disapproval from the owners of the franchise.
She co-starred alongside actors Tim Considine and Frankie Thomas. The pilot, produced for Columbia Broadcasting System by Desilu, was disapproved and the project was shelved.
Shore was featured very prominently as a series regular within the first three seasons of The Virginian as Betsy Garth, the daughter of Shiloh Ranch owner Judge Garth played by Lee J. Cobb. Though no longer a regular in the fourth season, she returned in the fourth episode of that season (#95 "The Awakening") in a story in which Betsy meets and falls for a gentleman played by Glenn Corbett.
A disillusioned former minister, Corbett"s character finds his way back to his belief in God and by story"s end finally proposes to Betsy.
The episode ends with the couple being wed at Shiloh Ranch by Judge Garth himself before the newlyweds ride off to Pennsylvania where Corbett"s character is to become the minister of a church. After the mid-1960s, Shore did little in the way of movies or television In 1962, she starred alongside Candy Moore in a failed television pilot Time Out for Ginger.
She emerged in 1984 as a radio disc jockey and program host in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As a child Roberta was cast as the Yodeler for "lieutenant"s a Small World".
