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Rose Marie Manzetta
Actress, vaudevillian, Hollywood square.
August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017.
Aged 94 years.

Most recognized for: Rose’s 9 decades in showbiz began in shorts for Vitaphone at the age of 5. Radio, theater, the night club circuit, TV, film… she’d seen & done it all. Her highest profile gigs were starring as comedy writer Sally Rogers on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and as herself in over 600 episodes of “Hollywood Squares.” Had her on your list for 2018, did’jya? Sorry, Charlie… but that’s all she wrote.