Rose Marie
Rose Marie Guy (née Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017), known professionally as Rose Marie, was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career spanning nine decades, which included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer from the late 1920s onward, she had a successful singing career under the stage name Baby Rose Marie. Rose Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) as television comedy writer Sally Rogers, "who went toe-to-toe in a man's world". Later, she portrayed Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and was a featured celebrity on Hollywood Squares for 14 years. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, Wait for Your Laugh, which includes interviews with her and her co-stars including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Tim Conway. |
Birth and Death Data: Born Manhattan (borough of New York City, New York, United States), Died December 28, 2017 (Van Nuys (neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States) )
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1930 - 1938
Roles Represented in DAHR: vocalist
Notes: A Victor trial record lists her as "Baby Rose Marie Curly." Her father, the vaudevillian Frank Mazzetta, acted under the pseudonym, Frank Curley.
= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | BSHQ-71940 | 10-in. | 3/10/1932 | Say that you were teasing me | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Victor | BSHQ-71941 | 10-in. | 3/10/1932 | Take a picture of the moon | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-73986 | 10-in. | 11/22/1932 | In the dim dim dawning | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-73987 | 10-in. | 11/22/1932 | That's all that matters to me | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021869 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | When the moon bids the sun goodnight | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021870 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | I got a guy | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021871 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | Let's break the good news | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021872 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | You better change your tune | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021873 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | It's raining sunshine | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BS-021874 | 10-in. | 4/1/1938 | This time it's real | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | vocalist | |
| Victor | BVE-Test-448 | 10-in. | 1/29/1930 | I've got my eye on you | Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with piano | vocalist | |
| Brunswick | B13272 | 10-in. | 4/20/1933 | My bluebird's singing the blues | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Brunswick | B13273 | 10-in. | 4/22/1933 | Come out-come out-whereever you are | Baby Rose Marie | Female vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | vocalist | |
| Master | M333 | 10-in. | 3/30/1937 | Headin' for heaven | Rose Marie Orchestra | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist | |
| Master | M334 | 10-in. | 3/30/1937 | Can't cha kinda go for me? | Rose Marie Orchestra | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist | |
| Master | M335 | 10-in. | 3/30/1937 | The juba | Rose Marie Orchestra | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist | |
| Master | M336 | 10-in. | 3/30/1937 | Shine | Rose Marie Orchestra | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | vocalist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Rose Marie," accessed January 3, 2026, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/110370.
Rose Marie. (2026). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 3, 2026, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/110370.
"Rose Marie." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2026. Web. 3 January 2026.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Rose Marie, 1923-2017 - https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96057337
Wikidata: Baby Rose Marie - https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q94487
VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64942025
MusicBrainz: Baby Rose Marie - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/597588d4-cd53-4afa-9de3-ab7726104fb1
Fast: https://id.worldcat.org/fast/382725 - https://id.worldcat.org/fast/382725
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