Rose Marie was born Rose Marie Mazzetta in Manhattan, New York, on August 15,1923, to Polish-American Stella Gluszcak and Italian-American vaudeville actor Frank Mazzetta, who went by the name of Frank Curley.
19 Facts About Rose Marie
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Rose Marie's mother took her to see local vaudeville shows regularly and afterwards, Rose Marie would sing what she had heard for neighbors, who eventually entered her in a talent contest.
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At the height of her fame as a child singer, from late 1929 to 1934, Rose Marie had her own radio show, made numerous records, and was featured in a number of Paramount films and shorts.
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Rose Marie has appeared in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and one feature picture, International House, with W C Fields for Paramount.
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Rose Marie secured work at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, which was built by Siegel.
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Concurrently with her nightclub work, the young adult Rose Marie continued to work in radio, earning the nickname "Darling of the Airwaves".
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In 1929, five-year-old Rose Marie made a Vitaphone sound short titled Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder.
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Rose Marie's first issued record, recorded on March 10,1932, featured accompaniment by Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, one of the leading African American jazz orchestras of the day.
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Henderson and the band were said to be in the RCA Victor studios recording the four songs they were intending to produce that day and were asked to accompany Baby Rose Marie, reading from a stock arrangement.
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Rose Marie's recording of "Say That You Were Teasing Me", featuring Henderson's orchestra, was a national hit in 1932.
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Rose Marie appeared in two episodes of The Monkees in the mid-1960s.
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Rose Marie later had a semi-regular seat in the upper center square on the original version of The Hollywood Squares.
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Rose Marie performed on three 1966 and 1967 episodes of The Dean Martin Show on NBC and twice on The Hollywood Palace on ABC.
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Rose Marie appeared as Roy Biggins' domineering mother Eleanor "Bluto" Biggins in an episode of Wings.
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Rose Marie appeared opposite Phil Silvers in the hit Broadway Musical Top Banana in 1951, appearing in the well-received 1954 film adaptation.
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From 1977 to 1985, Rose Marie co-starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell, and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue 4 Girls 4, which toured the United States and appeared on television several times.
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Rose Marie was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964.
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Rose Marie died at her home in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles on December 28,2017, at the age of 94.
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Rose Marie explained to reporters that Marie had laid down to rest on Thursday afternoon, and by the time her caregiver checked in on her, to see if she wanted something to eat, and discovered she had stopped breathing.