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\"Tinseltown<\/a>

Rose Marie poses with a hair bow and shoes from her Baby Rose Marie days donated to the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History in 2008.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tinseltown<\/a>

With cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tinseltown<\/a>

Baby Rose Marie, circa 1930.<\/p><\/div>\n

Rose Marie may be best known as wisecracking Sally Rogers in the 60\u2019s CBS sitcom \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show,\u201d but she began performing nine decades ago at an age when most children would still be potty training. With a phenomenal singing voice as a child, she rocketed to fame overnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea where that voice came from, I think God just gave me a wonderful gift,\u201d said Rose Marie, who turned 91 in August.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was three, I won an amateur contest, and my family took me to Atlantic City,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe saw a showgirl named Evelyn Nesbit perform and I started singing along. She invited me up on stage to sing with her, then people began throwing money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstage, Nesbit suggested changing her name to Baby Rose Marie and her career took off. \u201cI had my own radio show coast to coast on NBC when I was five.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there were also doubters. \u201cUnlike other child singers, I sang adult songs with adult phrasing and mannerisms. People would write to the station in disbelief saying that no child could sing like that and I must have been a midget. So NBC sent me out to play theaters to prove I was a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

As her fame grew, the famous wanted to meet her. President Franklin Roosevelt invited her to the White House when she was just six. \u201cAfter I sang for him, we played tiddlywinks with some poker chips I found in his office.\u201d<\/p>\n

She caught the attention of the infamous, too. \u00a0While working with Milton Berle in Chicago, a visitor came backstage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Al Capone and he wanted to invite me to dinner!\u201d she said. \u201cHe picked me up the next day and we went out to eat with all the mob. I just didn\u2019t think of those guys as gangsters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose Marie was just ten when she first met Morey Amsterdam, who would become an important influence in her career and later her co-star on \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a popular writer for comedians like Fanny Brice and Fred Allen and become a comic himself,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe met when I guest starred on a radio program.\u00a0He also wrote most of my nightclub material and become a life-long friend. I actually got him \u2018The Dick Van Dyke Show\u2019 job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dick Van Dyke is currently one of several celebrities campaigning for Rose Marie\u2019s induction into the TV Hall of Fame in 2015. Speaking from his Malibu home, he recalled meeting her for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew she had been in show business since she was three, but never met her until the first reading of the script,\u201d he said. \u201cShe just knocked me over. She probably had the most razor sharp sense of timing of anybody I ever worked with. She was a delight and still is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were a close group and genuinely liked working together,\u201d said Rose Marie of the cast. \u201cEveryone came to work happy, and oh did we laugh!\u201d<\/p>\n

Still active, her recent projects (see www.missrosemarie.com) include voiceover work for \u201cThe Garfield Show\u201d on the Cartoon Network.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it,\u201d she says. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to dress up or put on makeup. All you have to do is show up! Although I can do many different voices, the producer wanted my voice so people would know \u2018that\u2019s Rose Marie!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., with features, columns, and interviews in over 400 magazines and newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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