Rose Marie

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Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie, but is best known for her adult role as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

[edit] Early Years

Born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City, New York to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak, she became a performer at the age of three. At four she became the first person to be broadcast in a television transmission. At five she became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films. She was such a strong and convincing blues singer that there was a controversy over her actual age. Some people thought that NBC was trying to pass a midget off as a young girl. But indeed she was only a child. As a teenager she became a nightclub performer before becoming a comedian. She was known then as "The Darling of the Airwaves". According to her autobiography, Hold the Roses,^[1] she was assisted in her career by many members of the Mafia, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She did perform at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which, at the time, was run by Siegel.^[2]

[edit] Television

After appearing for many years on The Dick Van Dyke Show (in the role originally played by Sylvia Miles in the pilot episode), Rose Marie co-starred on The Doris Day Show, and later had a semi-regular seat in the upper center square on the original version of Hollywood Squares, along with her friend and former co-star Morey Amsterdam.

In the early 1990s, she had a recurring role as Frank Fontana's mother on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. Rose Marie also played Roy Biggins's mother in the comedy Wings in the 90's

Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City, shortly before Amsterdam's death in October of that same year. She appeared with the surviving Dick Van Dyke Show cast members in a 2004 reunion special. Rose was especially close to actor Richard Deacon from that show, and offered him the suits left behind when her husband, musician Bobby Guy died in 1964, as the two men were of similar height and build. (The Internet Movie Database reports her marriage to Bobby Guy (1946 - 1966), his death.)

[edit] Theater

From 1977-81, she costarred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue 4 Girls 4, which toured the U.S. and appeared on television several times. As of 2007, she continues to perform.

[edit] Quotes

From Hollywood Squares:

Q. Did the great psychoanalyst Carl Jung believe that there were extreme differences between men and women?
Rose Marie: No, that's why he always went around with one black eye.

Q. If a door-to-door salesman won't leave your home, what should you do?
Rose Marie: Propose.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Features

• International House (1933)
• Top Banana (1954)
• The Big Beat (1958)
• Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
• Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
• Memory of Us (1974)
• The Man from Clover Grove (1975)
• Bruce's Deadly Fingers (1976)
• Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
• Lunch Wagon (1981)
• Witchboard (1986)
• Sandman (1993)
• Lost & Found (1999)
• Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)
• Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes (2004)

[edit] Short Subjects

• Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929)
• Rambling 'Round Radio Row #4 (1932)
• Back in '23 (1933)
• Sing, Babies, Sing (1933)
• Rambling 'Round Radio Row (1934)
• At the Mike (1934)
• Surprising Suzie (1953)

[edit] Television Work

• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)
• The Hollywood Squares (1966-1981) (regular panelist)
• Walter of the Jungle (1967) (unsold pilot)
• The Doris Day Show (cast member from 1969-1971)
• Bridge Across Time (1985)
• The Jackie Bison Show (1990) (unsold pilot) (voice)
• Scorch (1992) (canceled after 3 episodes)
• Hardball (1994) (canceled after 7 episodes)
• Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (1995)
• Suddenly Susan (1997)
• The Hughleys (2001)
• Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
• The Alan Brady Show (2003) (voice)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Rose Marie at the Internet Movie Databasefr:Rose Marie

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