....Rose Marie ....Dies at 94

I use to see her in the valley driving her old Rolls, always with the black bow.

Apparently true. She had a darn good run.

She began at the age of 3 by winning an amateur contest that took her to Atlantic City where she was billed as Baby Rose Marie. She became a popular radio personality appearing on numerous top shows of the time. She eventually received her own program on NBC and recorded some of the most successful albums on the Mercury label. Her extensive touring took her to some of the finest showplaces across the country.

Rose Marie would sing for presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt. She starred in several of the earliest talking films, beginning with a 1929 short, Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder, which was screened in theaters before feature films such as "The Jazz Singer."

It's true.

Rose Marie! Morey Amsterdam!

If she gets there heaven will probably be having a party for Mary. Forcing Rose Marie to be delayed at the gates.

I liked her. She must have seen everything.

She really seemed to have all her marbles to the very end.

So young.

I win!

Rose Marie was on the Doris Day Show for a couple of years back in the late 1960's, early '70's.

Don't remind me.

And she has a lovely documentary of her life, which just premiered a bit ago and she was there to see it.

"So young. —Olivia de Havilland"

Still not funny.

R10 Doris and Rose Marie.

We had an absolute ball working together. So......young.

Doris, Rose Marie and Kaye Ballard.

Was she a lez?

First Irv Weinstein.

Then Johnny Bower.

Then Jack Blessing.

Now Rose Marie.

2017, when will your misery end!?

Rose Marie, Dick, and Morey.

Did her pussy stink?

She was on social media just a day or so ago I read.

What was with that fucking bow?

Was her boyfriend Herman reached for comment?

"Onstage, she starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O’Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue “4 Girls 4,” which toured the U.S. and made television appearances for several years beginning in 1977."

I guess one of them must have died when I saw their act in 1980. In 1980 it was called "3 Girls 3", and they performed at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans.

heard Georgia Engle was the last person to see her alive.

She was a good old gal. Her career was really something. She must have seen and done it all. RIP, Baby Rose.

[quote] heard Georgia Engle was the last person to see her alive.

That's what killed her.

R18. Poor Irv Weinstein. I hope he knows where his children are.

Rose Marie

RIP

The actress did have conflicts with Reiner, resenting that Moore was given more prominence than her on the show. Reiner, speaking in "Wait for Your Laugh," bluntly pushed back. "I used real strong language," he recalled. "I said, 'You both have beautiful legs. They wanna look at her legs.'"

She's gone to her blue heaven.....

Please excuse the Fox link, but this is a good chronicle of the friendship between Rose Marie and Doris Day.

She wanted "more prominence" on the show? I'd say she got lots of prominence; she was in nearly every episode. And Mary Tyler Moore played the wife of the star of the show, so of course her role would be bigger. What, did good old Rose want to be the only female star on the show? She should have known better than that.

My Mama Says No No

I wouldn’t be surprised if Carl Reiner doesn’t outlive Dick Van Dyke. Both are incredibly active for 90+, but watching Reiner on his visits to CONAN impressed me so much. He talked one time in the last year or two about a fall he had down his stairs and how he got up and walked away. He does stretches in his bed every day which he credited for his amazing health. He even wrote a book about his exercises.

[quote]2017, when will your misery end!?

Probably late Sunday night. That's my guess.

She was on today, r21. Someone else typed for her but she composed the tweets, and she told fantastic tales and had great pictures. She was even spilling tea on producers who wanted her to put out for roles.

I know she attended at least one screening of her documentary recently and would answer questions of fans too, so she was doing well.

At 94 you can go at any second, but this still seems too soon. What a legend.

I agree with R35. I’ve seen both Rob and Carl doing interviews, and they’re both great guests.

It’s so sad. She just tweeted 3 hours before she died. I know she was 94, but it’s still a shock for her to die so suddenly.

Did she like Dick?

She was married for a long time.to Bobby Guy, who had success in the 40s with Kay Kyser's band, and worked for years in NBC's house band. He died of sepsis suddenly in 1964 and Rose Marie almost quit DVDS after his death.

Damn it. Who will dust my tables now?

[quote] She just tweeted 3 hours before she died. I know she was 94, but it’s still a shock for her to die so suddenly.

There are apps that can schedule Tweets on Twitter, so likely she was not, you know, keying in a tweet 3 hours before. But she WAS probably engaged with whoever was helping her until a few days before, to be sure.

[quote]She wanted "more prominence" on the show? I'd say she got lots of prominence; she was in nearly every episode. And Mary Tyler Moore played the wife of the star of the show, so of course her role would be bigger. What, did good old Rose want to be the only female star on the show? She should have known better than that.

When the show was being planned, the intention was that Rob's life at the office would be at the center. Rose Marie would indeed have had the largest woman's part. Then Moore got cast and Reiner and Van Dyke were astonished at what an unexpected flair for comedy she had and what a quick study she was. Then, from the first episode, Moore became an audience favorite. Rob's family life was given a prominence that hadn't been planned and Rose Marie's, Morey Amsterdam's and Richard Deacon's parts became less important and reduced.

BTW, Sylvia Miles played Sally Rogers in the show's pilot.

Awesome comedian ! Lead a full and fantastic life until the end !!! I want to go out like her !!!! Sane, happy, sober !!

i won't miss the old bag

Let me guess: r47 is 52 but swears everyone thinks he looks 23.

No, sorry Rose, but Mary Tyler Moore is STILL the biggest star to die in 2017

Millie was the funniest, then Laura, then Mel,, then Buddy, then Rob, then Jerry then Richie, then Stacey (Rob's brother), then Herman Glimsher, then every single guest star and finally Richie's pet duck. THEN and ONLY THEN, came Sally.

What a champ...

Rest in Peace.

........

Would it kill Morey Amsterdam to make a statement?

The Dick Van Dyke show is probably my favorite show. As much as I loved the entire cast Millie fucking owned it.

r53

What about Doris Day, she fired her

And let's not forget her most famous role, what about George Federman and P&G

The lack of comments is scandalous and shows how universally despised she was

R55, wow, why did Doris fire Rose Marie?

LOL R28 You must be from the Buffalo area if you know who Irv Weinstein is.

Why did Rose Marie hate Shirley Temple, did they compete for the same roles?

Shirley slut shamed Rose Marie very publicly at the academy awards show in 1967.

r56

Doris fired virtually everyone off her show every year. It came with a new cast pretty much every year.

Rose Marie and Doris Day were great friends for 50 years. Doris was recently interviewed about 3 weeks ago about the friendship.

And RM was not universally loathed, not in the slightest.

Sorry this is Fox News but it's a good article on their friendship.

I should also mention that everyone was fired from The Doris Day Show after the 3rd season and the show was completely overhauled. RM being fired wasn't some scandal, it was just part of the change in premise.

Rose was a year younger than Doris but looked like a pile of dried up dog shit, next to Doris.

[quote]George Federman

Oh, dear.

what was on her iPod?

r48 i am almost 67 and actually i don't look my age.....as far as this bowing down to how great the DVD show was , please......it was stupid, simple, over done, over acted, it stunk.

OHHHHHHH ROBBBBBBBBBBBBB !!!! Holly Hopoint stunk as well.

After Paul Lynde, she was my favorite Hollywood Square.

Her real name is Mazatta, I mean it's OK not to use your last name now but back then it was a real douchey thing to do.

Even she joined in claiming some guy wanted to sexually harass her. Of course she waited till now to tell about the harassment that supposedly took place more than 50 years ago. And of course she didn't give into it. And OF COURSE she left out the part where she was a lesbian.

I read on another thread that Rose Marie may have been partially responsible for the notorious dog eats baby video occasionally (and cruelly) posted on DL.

whoever called her a force of nature was so wrong....more like a force of ugly.

Her stage-mother-on-steroids should have been shot for making her sing so...lustlly. At age four Sally sounded like she had already buried 2 husbands.

Baby Rose Marie

"Baby" Rose Marie

Shameful

I hope Rosie was at least getting finger banged by that hot slab of meat..

Did she ever work with Baby or Dainty June?

jesus that little video is Painful....

If anyone should have been Mama Rose....

Not quite r44. The producers did decide to focus a lot of attention on Rob's home life. But it wasn't Mary Tyler Moore that audiences loved. It was ME, neighbor Millie. Yes, had it not been for me, those scenes would have fallen flatter than Baby Rose Marie's tits.

that show sucked a big one

Rose Marie was a young whore, much like Jon-Benet. She was giving expert head at 4.

But Rose Marie knew enough not to wet the bed thus ensuring an additional 90 years of life.

Rose Marie was delightful! She she ever tell the public why she always wore her famous hair bow?

...stutterer on aisle 83

In remembrance of her late husband

"jesus that little video is Painful...."

Oh, come on. It's not "painful", it's quaint. A little girl with a growly singing voice, flirting with a hunky guy...it was meant to be comedic, which it was. Anybody who finds it lewd needs to lighten up.

Baby Rose Marie was singing those silly love songs from that era at her young age, but it's not offensive. What I thought was offensive was what happened to poor Lena Zavaroni. She was a Scottish child singer who gained notice from appearing on a British talent show called "Opportunity Knocks.' She made her first album at age 10 and had a hit with an awful old song called "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me." I found THAT song a pretty creepy choice for a little girl to be singing; it ended with little Lena belting out "Mamaaa! He's kissing me!" Her first album featured her singing songs like "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "River Deep Mountain High", extremely inappropriate songs for a child to be singing. Anyway, "the little girl with the big voice", in her ankle socks and pinafores and hair ribbons, was popular on tv variety shows for a few years. Then she became passe...and anorexic. She became more and more ill and went into a hospital to have a brain operation (a lobotomy?) to get rid of the "static" that was driving her crazy. She died of a chest infection; she had no strength to fight it. And she died broke, her career having ended long ago. Baby Rose Marie, unlike the hapless Lena Zavaroni, weathered being a child star and continued to have a career and a life that lasted a long time. Stardom at a young age: some people can handle it and some people can't.