Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of The Dick Van Dyke Show and a show-business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a century in theatre, radio, TV and movies, died Thursday. She was 94.
Marie had been resting in bed at her Los Angeles-area home when she died and was found by a caretaker, said family spokesman Harlan Boll.
The caption “Heaven just got a whole lot funnier” was posted atop a photo of Marie on her website.
Marie was a child star of the 1920s and 1930s who endeared herself to TV fans on the classic ’60s sitcom that featured Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
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She appeared in numerous movies as a child and starred in the Broadway musical Top Banana. She was nominated for three Emmys and received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 2001.
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