Rose Marie | |
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Born | Rose Marie Mazzetta August 15, 1923 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | December 28, 2017 Van Nuys, California, U.S. | (aged 94)
Other names | Baby Rose Marie |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1926–2017 |
Spouse |
Bobby Guy
(m. 1946; died 1964) |
Children | 1 |
Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta;[1] August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career ultimately spanning nine decades, which included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career under the stage name Baby Rose Marie.
Rose Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) as television comedy writer Sally Rogers, "who went toe-to-toe in a man's world".[2] Later, she portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was a featured celebrity on Hollywood Squares for 14 years.[2]
She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Wait for Your Laugh, which includes interviews with her and her co-stars including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Tim Conway.[3]