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From: Vanity Fair > Hollywood > In Memoriam
Remembering Rose Marie’s Nine Decades in Show Business
From child stardom to Dick Van Dyke and beyond, Rose Marie was a dynamo who lived her whole life in the spotlight.
by Donald Liebenson
December 29, 2017 1:58 pm
She was a dynamo as Baby Rose Marie in the 1920s and 1930s. She was a pistol as comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s. And in 2017, she reemerged as a voice in the #MeToo movement. Rose Marie, who died Thursday in Van Nuys, California, was one of the last of a generation of entertainers whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, movies, Broadway, television, and social media. ...
The cause of death was undisclosed. She was 94.
Marie was a show-business prodigy. Born Rose Marie Mazzetta on August 15, 1923, she won a talent contest at the age of three; as a prize, NBC gave her her own radio show and a seven-year contract. Because of her brassy voice, she was sent on the road for personal appearances to prove she was, indeed, just a child. She made her screen debut in the 1929 short Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder. Her most memorable film role was as a featured attraction belting out “My Bluebird’s Singing the Blues” in the 1933 W.C. Fields comedy International House. ...
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