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Do you know who Rosemary is? If not stick around, because I'm going to tell you...
Here is Rosemary at a Glance:
~ a popular American singer and actress.
~ a sister, mother & wife.
~ born into poverty
~ eloped in the summer of 1953 with Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer, 16 years her senior.
~ developed an addiction to tranquilizers and sleeping pills from being over stressed.
~ for her the world came crashing down in 1968. She was standing only yards away when her close friend Bobby Kennedy, then campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, was assassinated in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel.
~ 1976 Clooney's old friend Bing Crosby asked her to join him on his 50th anniversary tour. It would be Crosby's final tour and Clooney's comeback event.
~ She received numourus awards.
~ Battled Lung Cancer.
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Interesting Facts You Might Not Know...
Aunt of actor George Clooney
She was married three times, twice to her 1st husband Jose.
Her second husband, whom she married in 1997; she actually dated before she every married her 1st husband.
She has five children & ten grand children.
She started a living memorial to her sister Betty, who died in 1976 from a brain aneurysm: the Betty Clooney Center in Long Beach, California, a facility for brain-injured young adults. The first of its kind in the U.S.
Her mother left when she was 13. She took her brother to California, but left her & her sister betty with their alcoholic father. Her father tried to care for Rosemary and Betty, working steadily at a defense plant, but he left one night to celebrate the end of World War II-taking the household money with him-and never returned. As Clooney described in her autobiography, This for Remembrance, she and Betty were left to fend for themselves. They collected soda bottles and bought meals at school with the refund money. The phone had been disconnected, the utilities were about to be turned off, and the rent was overdue when Rosemary and Betty won an open singing audition at a Cincinnati radio station. The girls were so impressive, in fact, that they were hired for a regular late-night spot at $20 a week each. "The Clooney Sisters," as they became known, began their singing career in 1945 on WLW in Cincinnati.
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress whose warm, radiant voice placed her in the first rank of American popular singers for more than half a century. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botcha-Me," "Mambo Italiano," and "This Old House," songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist.
Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1974, when Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. During the 1990s, she recorded a series of albums for the Concord jazz label with small ensembles which were warmly received by audiences and critics alike.
DVD's with Rosemary
WHITE CHRISTMAS (DVD) (IRVING BERLINS)WS ENHANCED 16X9/DOLBY DIGI ENG 5.1
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Red Garters
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In Concert Series: Rosemary Clooney
Release Date: 10/03/2006
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Girl Singer - Songs from the Classic TV Show
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Toe Tappin Music from the last girl singer!
The Essential Rosemary Clooney
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Christmas with Rosemary Clooney
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White Christmas
Release Date: 07/25/2006
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Songs from White Christmas (& Other Yuletide Favorites)
Release Date: 10/07/1997
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For the Duration
Release Date: 07/01/1991
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Just the Facts...
Birthplace: Maysville, KY
Died: 29-Jun-2002
Height 5' 6" (168 cm)
Star Sign Gemini
Location of death: Beverly Hills, CA
Cause of death: Lung Cancer
Remains: Buried, St. Patrick's Cemetery, Maysville, KY
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Nationality: United States
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Family
Father: Andrew Clooney
Mother: Frances Clooney
Sister: Betty Clooney (singer, b. 12-Apr-1931, d. Aug-1976)
Brother: Nick Clooney
Boyfriend: Dave Garroway (host of the Today show)
Husband: Jose Ferrer (actor, m. 1953, div. 1961, five children)
Son: Miguel Ferrer (actor, b. 7-Feb-1955)
Son: Rafael Ferrer
Son: Gabriel Ferrer (artist)
Daughter: Monsita
Daughter: Maria
Husband: Jose Ferrer (remarried, m. 1966, div. 1967)
Husband: Dante DiPaolo (Italian actor, m. 7-Nov-1997, until her death)
Tidbits of Information
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6325-1/2 Hollywood Blvd (recordings)
Kentucky Colonel
Nervous Breakdown - 1968
Lung Removal (Jan. 11th - 2002)
Irish Ancestry
German Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoker
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Radioland Murders (21-Oct-1994)
Deep in My Heart (9-Dec-1954)
White Christmas (14-Oct-1954)
Author of books:
Girl Singer: An Autobiography (2001, memoir, with Joan Barthel)
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