Rose Marie

Rose Marie Mazetta was born August 15, 1923. Professionally known as Rose Marie, she was an amazing American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. She started her career at a local radio station when she was just 4 years old. She then moved on to work at a bigger radio station after just some months. She was already a big personality by the time she was 5 years old, working on her own program on NBC. She had performed with other big celebrities, like Benny Goodman and Rudy Vallee, as well.

Her movie debut happened in the 1933 film, International House. She worked alongside major stars like Bela Lugosi, W. C. Fields, and Cab Calloway. Her trademark style was wearing a bowtie in her hair, she started when she was a little kid and continued in her later years as well. Her voice and looks appeared to make her look like an adult, so much so that people actually thought that she was a midget when she worked on her radio programs. To do away with this myth her channel NBC made her travel on tour to various states so that people could actually believe that the person behind that adult and hoarse voice was a little kid.

After turning 11 she began to be known as just ‘Rose Marie’, thereby dropping her earlier ‘Baby’ prefix. She continued her reign even as a teenager. She performed at various night-clubs all over the country and also opened the first ever casino club called The Flamingo along with Xavier Cugat and Jimmy Durante. For the following years she was a famous performer in the clubs of Las Vegas Serial Story Coming Soon... >> Read More... , performing regularly at various well-known joints.

Between 1930 and 1938, she made 17 recordings, three of which were unissued. Her first issued record, that was done on March 10, 1932, featured accompaniment by Fletcher Henderson's band, one of the premier black jazz orchestras Rose Marie is credited for creating situational comedy shows as well. Some of her good works were My Sister Eileen, S.W.A.P., The Doris Day Show, The Bob Cummings Show and Honeymoon Suite.

Her most famous role was on the show The Dick Van Dyke Show, a classic comedy. Her character was that of an independent woman called Sally Rogers. Rose got nominated thrice in the Emmys for this show. Later, variety television shows became a natural for the comedienne-vocalist. Rose Marie made numerous appearances with other stars like Jackie Gleason Jackie Gleason was born on 26th February, 1916 in >> Read More... , Mike Douglas, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Merv Griffin, Jimmy Durante, Dean Martin, Dinah Shore Dinah Shore had her birth name originally as Franc >> Read More... , Milton Berle, George Gobel, Red Skelton, Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore was an Ireland-based Mus >> Read More... , and Johnny Carson John William Carson is a multi-talented American c >> Read More... . She also appeared on game shows such as Hollywood Squares.