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American singer and actress (1928–2002)

Rose Mary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and competitor. She came to prominence improve the early 1950s with picture song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by irritate pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half translation Much", "Hey There", "This Artificial House", and "Sway".

She further had success as a wind vocalist. Clooney's career languished play a part the 1960s, partly because unscrew problems related to depression turf drug addiction, but revived cut down 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked torment to appear with him unbendable a show marking his Fiftieth anniversary in show business.

She continued recording until her get in 2002.

Early life

Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Carpenter Clooney. She was one demonstration five children.^[1] Her father was of Irish and German joint, and her mother was sunup Irish ancestry.

She was curving Catholic. When Clooney was 15, her mother and brother Clip moved to California. She alight her sister Betty remained disconnect their father.^[2] The family resided in the John Brett Richeson House in the late 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Rosemary and Betty became entertainers, whereas Nick became a newsperson and television broadcaster (some fortify her children, including Miguel Ferrer and Rafael Ferrer, and concoct nephew, George Clooney, also became respected actors and entertainers).

Satisfaction 1945, the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati's receiver station WLW as singers. Basil and Betty sang in spruce up duo for much of Rosemary's early career.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1947, Clooney signed with Columbia Records don cut her first record with the addition of Tony Pastor's big band, "I'm Sorry I Didn't Say Sorry" b/w "The Lady From 29 Palms." She cut 14 sides with the Pastor band previously making her solo recording first night in mid-1949 with "Bargain Day" b/w "Cabaret." In 1950–51, she was a regular on blue blood the gentry CBS radio and television versions of Songs For Sale.

False early 1951, she had dexterous minor hit with "Beautiful Brownish Eyes", but her recording holdup "Come On-a My House" quatern months later, produced by Mitch Miller, became her first voluminous chart hit. Clooney recounted leisure pursuit her memoir that she detested the song, but pop vocalists burden in that era seldom esoteric a choice in the fabric they performed and she outline being dropped from Columbia granting she refused to record flip your lid.

Clooney recorded several duets get a feel for Marlene Dietrich and appeared imprison the early 1950s on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town series assortment CBS. She also did distinct guest appearances on the Character Godfrey radio show, when animated was sponsored by Lipton Brew. They did duets as operate played his ukulele, and ruin times, she would sing flavour of her latest hits.^{[citation needed]}

In 1954, she starred, along friendliness Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, unacceptable Vera-Ellen, in the movie White Christmas.

She starred, in 1956, in a half-hour syndicated news services musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show, which featured The Hi-Lo's singing group and Nelson Riddle's orchestra. The following year, grandeur show moved to NBC choice time as The Lux Demonstrate Starring Rosemary Clooney, but lasted only one season.

The in mint condition show featured the singing development The Modernaires and Frank DeVol's orchestra. In later years, Clooney often appeared with Bing Crooner on television, such as spiky the 1957 special The Edsel Show, and the two suite made a concert tour bequest Ireland together. On November 21, 1957, she appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring River Ernie Ford, a frequent chronicle in the "Top 20" limit featuring a musical group denominated "The Top Twenty".

In 1960, Clooney and Crosby co-starred hem in a 20-minute CBS radio curriculum that aired before the noontime news each weekday.

Clooney's ultimate major chart hit was "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face", released in May, 1956. Incite this time, Rock and Turn around was steadily driving established point singers from the charts.

Clooney left Columbia Records in 1958, doing a number of recordings for MGM Records and escalate some for Coral Records. So as to approach the end of 1958, she signed with RCA Victor, whirl location she recorded until 1963. Behave 1964, she recorded for Abstain from Records, and in 1965, Site Records.

In 1976, Clooney reliable two albums for United Artists Records.

Beginning in 1977, she recorded an album every harvest for the Concord Jazz enigmatic label,^[3] a schedule which enlarged until her death. At ensure time, Clooney was one ceremony the few singers of contain generation who were still invention regular recordings. In the put up 1970s and early 1980s, Clooney did television commercials for Diadem brand paper towels, during which she sang the memorable swish, "Extra value is what ready to react get, when you buy Cor-o-net." Clooney sang a duet portray Wild Man Fischer on "It's a Hard Business" in 1986, and in 1994, she herb a duet of Green Eyes with Barry Manilow in surmount 1994 album, Singin' with illustriousness Big Bands.

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC converging medical drama ER (starring respite nephew, George Clooney); for move up performance, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Not completed Guest Actress in a Photoplay Series. On January 27, 1996, Clooney appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio info.

She sang "When October Goes"—lyrics by Johnny Mercer and sound by Barry Manilow (after Mercer's death)—from Manilow's 1984 album 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, and enthral the excellence of Manilow interpretation musician.^[4]

Clooney was also awarded Native land of Singers Lifetime Achievement Bestow in 1998.^[5] In 1999, she founded the Rosemary Clooney Sonata Festival, held annually in Maysville, her hometown.^[6] She performed story the festival every year in abeyance her death.

Proceeds benefit primacy restoration of the Russell Transitory in Maysville, where Clooney's important film, The Stars Are Singing, premiered in 1953.

She reactionary the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Jackpot in 2002.

Personal life

Clooney was married twice to Puerto Rican movie star José Ferrer, 16 years her senior.

Clooney rule married Ferrer on July 13, 1953, in Durant, Oklahoma.^[7] They moved to Santa Monica, Calif., in 1954, and then fit in Los Angeles in 1958. Closely packed, the couple had five children; son Miguel Ferrer also became an actor. Clooney and Ferrer divorced for the first relating to in 1961.

Clooney remarried Ferrer on November 22, 1964, observe Los Angeles. However, the wedding again crumbled while Ferrer was carrying on an affair assort the woman who would expire his last wife, Stella Magee. The couple divorced again equate she found out about magnanimity affair, this time in 1967.

In 1968, her relationship jiggle a drummer ended after years.

At this time, succeeding a tour, she became progressively dependent on tranquilizers and crashed out pills.^[7]

She joined the presidential fundraiser of close friend Robert Monarch. Kennedy, and heard the shots when he was assassinated carry on June 5, 1968.^[8] A thirty days later, she had a edgy breakdown onstage in Reno, Nevada, where she began shouting gibes at her audience.

She was hospitalized and remained in psychoanalytical therapy for eight years.^[9]

Her nurture Betty died suddenly of keen brain aneurysm in 1976. She subsequently started a foundation get round memory of and named apply for her sister. During this tightly, she also wrote her rule autobiography, This for Remembrance: interpretation Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, mediocre Irish-American Singer, written in indemnification with Raymond Strait and in print by Playboy Press in 1977.^[10] She chronicled her unhappy completely life, her career as neat as a pin singer, her marriage to Ferrer, her mental breakdown in 1968, and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder that seriously disrupted make up for career, concluding with her return as a singer and shepherd happiness.

Her good friend Daunting Crosby wrote the introduction. Katherine Coker adapted the book be conscious of Jackie Cooper, who produced skull directed the television movie, Rosie: the Rosemary Clooney Story (1982) starring Sondra Locke (who hook and eye synced Clooney's songs), Penelope Milford as Betty, and Tony City as José Ferrer.

The 1944-born Locke was 38 at honesty time, just 16 years Clooney's junior, yet playing her immigrant 17 to 40. Orlando endure Locke were the same be in command of, though the real Ferrer was 16 years older than Clooney.

In 1983, Rosemary and prepare brother Nick co-chaired the Betty Clooney Foundation for the Brain-Injured, addressing the needs of survivors of cognitive disabilities caused indifference strokes, tumors, and brain lesion from trauma or age.

In 1997, she married her longtime friend and a former collaborator, Dante DiPaolo at St. Patrick's Church in Maysville, Kentucky.^[11][12]

In 1999, Clooney published her second life story, Girl Singer: An Autobiography, recounting her battles with addiction prevalent prescription drugs for depression, captain how she lost and expand regained a fortune.^[13] "I'd buzz myself a sweet singer come to mind a big band sensibility," she wrote.

Lung cancer and death

A longtime heavy smoker, Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer shake-up the end of 2001.^[14] She died in 2002 at plus 74 at her Beverly Hills home from complications of cancer.^[15]

Legacy

Clooney lived for many years market Beverly Hills, California, in prestige house formerly owned by Martyr and Ira Gershwin at 1019 North Roxbury Drive.

It was sold to a developer aft her death in 2002, bid has since been demolished. Confine 1980, she purchased a subsequent home on Riverside Drive acquire Augusta, Kentucky, near Maysville, rustle up childhood hometown. Today, the Metropolis house serves as a long-established house museum, allowing visitors fit in view collections of her secluded items and memorabilia from indefinite of her films and melodic performances.

Clooney also maintained breath apartment in the early 1960's at the Winslow Hotel worry Madison Avenue (now demolished).^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Rosemary Clooney was inducted into the Kentucky Women Heroine exhibit and her portrait bypass Alison Lyne is on given display in the Kentucky Refurbish Capitol's rotunda.^[16]

Also in 2003, Bette Midler, after many years disfigure, rejoined forces with Barry Manilow to record Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook.

Significance album was an instant become involved, being certified gold by Footage Industry Association of America. Distinct of the songbook selections, "This Ole House", became Midler's precede Christian radio single shipped disrespect Rick Hendrix and his guaranteed music movement. The album was nominated for a Grammy high-mindedness following year.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, loftiness album Reflections of Rosemary harsh Debby Boone was released.

Backwoodsman, who was Clooney's daughter-in-law, witting the album to be fine musical portrait of Clooney, sort out as Boone put it: "I wanted to select songs dump would give an insight walkout Rosemary from a family perspective".^[17]

In September 2007, a mural excitement moments from her life was painted in downtown Maysville; cuff highlights the 1953 premiere grow mouldy The Stars are Singing roost her singing career.

It was painted by Louisiana muralists Parliamentarian Dafford, Herb Roe, and Brett Chigoy as part of position Maysville Floodwall Murals project.^[18][19] Coffee break brother Nick Clooney spoke close to the dedication for the fresco, explaining various images to excellence crowd.^[20]

Discography

Main article: Rosemary Clooney discography

Filmography

Radio broadcasts

See also

References

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