Rose Marie, an actress, singer and comedian best known for portraying the wisecracking Sally Rogers in the popular 1960s sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” died Thursday, according to her agent and official website. She was soon known professionally as Baby Rose Marie and became a sensation on the NBC radio network, which signed her to a seven-year contract. “Some people think my whole life started with ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show,’ which is not so,” Marie said in a 1999 interview with the Archive of American Television. Her casting interview for “Dick Van Dyke” was little more than a formality. Devastated, she decided she could not continue on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” but the show’s director, John Rich, talked her out of quitting.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 29, 2017 02:37 UTC