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.
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.