Hold the Roses

By Rose Marie

Book Overview

We all remember Rose Marie as the wisecracking Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, or recognize her from her perch in the top middle square on Hollywood Squares, but not everyone knows her career... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122643
• ISBN13: 9780813122649
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Pleasing "thank you note" to her fans

Rose Marie did a great job writing her memoirs. I heard rumors that this book would be bitter, but it's actually a sweet thank you note to her fans. But, I wish there was a way to find a cd of her singing in the thirties.

Couldn't put this book down!

I am an avid biography/autobiography reader. This book was a delight to read. Rose Marie tells about the many aspects of her life. Her childhood and her years as a nightclub singer were especially interesting. This book is a must for any Dick Van Dyke Show fan. I wish this book would be more heavily promoted and available to readers. It's the best autobiography I've read in a long time.

Great stuff

What a fun, funny, touching, warm and wonderful celebrity bio. Most celebrities seem to have their interest quotient tied to their history of self-destructive antics, but Rose Marie really provides some great reading, especially if you are of her generation. I am not, I'm about 40 years younger, but I loved it. I gave it to my aunts and parents and they enjoyed it, too. We're from the same background and neighborhood, so maybe that prejudiced us a bit, bit Rose Marie is a class act.

I couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end

I read a lot of autobiographies, and "Hold the Roses" is one of the most candid and well written I've read. Rose Marie has not only lived a very interesting life; she's written a very entertaining book. I knew her as part of the sentence "I'll take Rose Marie to block" from her regular appearances on Hollywood Squares. I knew she had been on "The Dick van Dyke Show" and knew very little else about her. I didn't know about Baby Rose Marie, the little girl born out of wedlock who became a star on radio and in vaudeville; whose father didn't marry her mother but supported his "real family" by managing her career until he tried to have her killed. She did more than rub elbows with the famous and infamous of her day. And as interesting as her show business recollections are, the book recounts a love story that is both funny and touching. Rose Marie has had an incredible career. And she's topped it off by writing a wonderful book. I'm so glad I read it.

Great Stories from a Class Act

Rose Marie's life spans the greatest years of vaudeville, radio, talkies, Broadway, nightclubs, Vegas, and TV. Incredibly Rose Marie rose to the top of each medium - not sure if anyone else can even make that claim. With this book you hear the entire history of twentieth century show business told by someone who lived it. Great stories about Capone, Bugsy Segal, Al Jolson, Phil Silvers, Dick Van Dyke and Milton Berle. I highly recommend this book.