Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress who had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie, but is perhaps best known for her adult role as Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Rose Marie is an operetta with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and a libretto by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II.
The work was first produced on Broadway on September 2 1924, running for a very successful 557 performances. It was then produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1925, enjoying another extraordinary run of 581 performances. The original West End production had a chorus of eighty. A touring company premiered the work in Canada on January 12 1925 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. Other Canadian productions have been given by the Variétés lyriques in 1937 and another in 1945, in French; by Theatre Under the Stars in 1940, by Melody Fair in 1951 and by the Eaton Operatic Society in 1959.
The best-known song from the operetta is Indian Love Call. It became Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy's "signature" song. Several other numbers have also become standards, including the title song.
Rose-Marie is a singer, television personality, actress and radio presenter from Northern Ireland. Her parents are Ann and Owen, and she is one of six siblings who were raised on a farm outside Newry, County Down. She is a former judge of RTÉ talent show Go For It.
