LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore’s fetching suburban housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
But it was as feisty comedy writer Sally Rogers that Marie stretched the narrow confines of how women were portrayed on TV in the mid-20th century. Sally was an independent single woman who handled her job as adroitly as her male colleagues and who dated but refused to pine away for romance.
Rose Marie, who died Thursday at 94, was proud to have created a woman defined by her work, a rare sitcom character at the time who wasn’t “a wife, mother, or housekeeper,” she tweeted in 2017.
It represented one milestone in an extraordinary acting and singing career that started when she was a toddler, stretched over nearly a century and included success in theater, radio, nightclubs, movies and TV.
“There’s never been a more engaging & multi-talented performer …. & always had audiences clamoring for more!!” Carl Reiner, creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” posted Thursday on Twitter. read more
Good old Baby Rose Marie. Rest in peace, lady.
Wow, didn’t know she was still around. Loved her in the DvD show.
God bless her and those she left behind. RIP
Radio studio audiences (and WC Fields), when they saw her perform, thought she was a 40-year-old midget.
Some of my favorite childhood memories are listening to my mom laugh uproariously at The Dick Van Dyke Show. I loved Sally Rogers. She was smart, funny, independent. Hell, put a bow in my hair, and you’d think I was her doppelganger.
Whenever I thought of her in years after, I thought of the little clip on bows she wore in her hair on the show.
RIP Dear Lady.
The lady was a smart dame from back when that was a compliment.
“And in front of everybody, I go, ‘You couldn’t get it up if a flag went by,’”
If only one of the 84 Weinettes were as sharp a lady as Rose.
I was so sad reading this just now, I ran from my computer and tripped over the Ottoman.
Classic character on a classic show.
I don’t know if I’m more surprised she was still alive, or that Doris Day is still able to comment.
Figures. I started following her on twitter 10 days ago.
BFH….Twitter Harbinger of Death…
Going to look weird on Business Cards.
No no, this could be a really, really cool thing if he decides to follow Magic Johnson.
Had that douche in my deadpool since the 90’s. WTF!?!?!
Rose Marie was a funny gal. Always wanted to get laid and never made no bones about it. Rest in Peace Rosie.
What’s more amazing is that Carl Reiner is still around to comment on her death! He was funny on the Dick Van Dyke (in front and behind the camera) show and in The Russians are Coming.
I can’t find the YouTube clip, but one of the funniest endings of the Tonight Show involved her.
Johnny Carson already had Carl Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, John Beyner, and George Lindsey at the panel.
He was introducing Rose Marie. He meant to say she had been in show business as a young child, but said she’d Ben in show business longer than any of us. When she came on stage they were laughing and John Byner told her that Johnny had said when they built the first stage, she held the hammer.
Johnny was trying to explain and all the other guests walked off stage. He had about five minutes left. He took off his tie and loosened his shirt. Doc Severnson got the band playing the stripper and Johnnytook off shirt, shoes, and socks.
Eventually, the other guests (males) came back without their shirts. Rose Marie wisecracked. He said something like welcome back to Rawhide.
Someone find that clip😀
https://www.newsfromme.com/2005/01/25/carson-stuff-cont-5/
No clip, but a good summary.
Followed her on Twitter for a while. She was amazed at how many followers she had and treated all with inside stories and her famous meat sauce recipe.
https://rosemarieskitchen.org/2016/04/03/spaghetti-with-a-meat-sauce-and-meat-balls/
Loved Rose Marie but that recipe has frozen meatballs in it. Never had a frozen meatball that even came close to one of Mrs. Curtain’s homemade meatballs.