Rose Marie

Rose Marie was an American actress, singer and comedian whose career stretched across nine decades of vaudeville, radio, records, nightclubs, theater and television. Born in Manhattan in 1923, she was performing by age three as Baby Rose Marie, and by five she had a seven-year radio contract with NBC. She made short films and the feature International House (1933) with W. C. Fields, then moved into nightclub work while continuing in radio. On television she became widely known as comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966, later played Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and spent 14 years on Hollywood Squares. She appeared on Broadway in Top Banana in 1951 and toured in the revue 4 Girls 4 from 1977 to 1985. Wait for Your Laugh (2017) is a documentary about her. She died in 2017.