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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 7 November 2017
Mob, fame, loss: Film details Rose Marie's surprising life

By LYNN ELBER wife. It's qualified for Acad- voicing a character on
AP Television Writer emy Award consideration the animated "The Garfield
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose and is screening in New Show."
Marie's place in show busi- York, Los Angeles and else- "Wait for Your Laugh" takes
ness history is anchored by where to draw attention for a respectful but playful ap-
her performance as smart a nomination. proach to Rose Marie's life,
aleck comedy writer Sally Born Rose Marie Mazetta deftly integrating witty re-
on "The Dick Van Dyke in New York City, she was enactments shot on film
Show" and a "Hollywood the apple of Al Capone's with each decade's ap-
Squares" quipster. eye, opened the Flamingo propriate camera to bring
That is simply criminal, as a in upstart Las Vegas for her story to life.
new documentary makes another gangster, Bugsy Her memorabilia and
clear. Before she became Siegel, and was a working personal footage from
a TV second banana, Baby wife and mom whose per- throughout her life proved
Rose Marie was a big- formance addiction and a bonanza, said Jason
voiced singing phenom- feistiness remain unabated Wise.
enon who at age 4 began at age 94. "Any time she mentions,
conquering radio, stage "I loved to work for an au- say, a theater, there's a
and records and blos- dience and I loved to hold telegram from Milton Berle
somed into a glamorous them in the palm of my saying 'excited to see you'"
nightclub performer.Her re- hand — which I do," a still- there, Wise said, visually en-
markable life is recounted confident Rose Marie says riching the memory.
with her help in "Wait for in the film. At a recent screening,
Your Laugh," a film with the Throughout her decades- Rose Marie held court from
verve, charisma and inven- long career, she refused to a wheelchair, frail but spir-
tiveness to match its sub- be left behind as entertain- ited in a follow-up discus-
ject. ment's focus expanded to sion. She was joined by Van
"The greatest asset we include movies and televi- Dyke; the 1960s sitcom's
have is you don't know the sion, with the driven Rose co-star and its creator, Carl
story," said director Jason Marie adapting her talents Reiner, and "Hollywood In this April 1, 2002 file photo, actress and comedian Rose Ma-
Wise, who produced the as required. Her last job Squares" host Peter Mar- rie talks to the press as she arrives for a ceremony honoring
comedian Milton Berle in Los Angeles.
film with Christina Wise, his was just a few years ago, shall. Continued on Pag 31 Associated Press