Biography of rosemary clooney

American singer and actress (1928–2002)

Rose Jewess Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American minstrel and actress. She came to protuberance in the early 1950s with loftiness song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop drawing such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There", "This Ole House", and "Sway". She along with had success as a jazz troubadour. Clooney's career languished in the Decennium, partly because of problems related stop depression and drug addiction, but redux in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her disclose appear with him at a agricultural show marking his 50th anniversary in event business. She continued recording until respite death in 2002.

Early life

Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, loftiness daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. She was one of five children.^[1] Her priest was of Irish and German shelve, and her mother was of Nation ancestry. She was raised Catholic. Like that which Clooney was 15, her mother shaft brother Nick moved to California. She and her sister Betty remained succeed their father.^[2] The family resided detour the John Brett Richeson House be given the late 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Rosemary and Betty became entertainers, whereas Nick became top-notch newsman and television broadcaster (some get the message her children, including Miguel Ferrer put forward Rafael Ferrer, and her nephew, Martyr Clooney, also became respected actors endure entertainers). In 1945, the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati's ghetto-blaster station WLW as singers. Rosemary roost Betty sang in a duo go all-out for much of Rosemary's early career.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1947, Clooney signed with Columbia Registry and cut her first record free Tony Pastor's big band, "I'm Guilt-ridden I Didn't Say Sorry" b/w "The Lady From Twenty-Nine Palms." She example 14 sides with the Pastor buckle before making her solo recording launch in mid-1949 with "Bargain Day" b/w "Cabaret." In 1950–51, she was tidy regular on the CBS radio focus on television versions of Songs For Sale. In early 1951, she had undiluted minor hit with "Beautiful Brown Eyes", but her recording of "Come On-a My House" four months later, wake up by Mitch Miller, became her crowning big chart hit. Clooney recounted unite her memoir that she despised rendering song, but pop singers in consider it era seldom had a choice derive the material they performed and she risked being dropped from Columbia conj admitting she refused to record it. Clooney recorded several duets with Marlene Singer and appeared in the early Fifties on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town mound on CBS. She also did a sprinkling guest appearances on the Arthur Godfrey radio show, when it was fairyed godmother by Lipton Tea. They did duets as he played his ukulele, roost other times, she would sing attack of her latest hits.^{[citation needed]}

In 1954, she starred, along with Bing Histrion, Danny Kaye, and Vera-Ellen, in distinction movie White Christmas. She starred, make a way into 1956, in a half-hour syndicated hold close musical-variety show, The Rosemary Clooney Show, which featured The Hi-Lo's singing order and Nelson Riddle's orchestra. The people year, the show moved to NBC prime time as The Lux Point up Starring Rosemary Clooney, but lasted one season. The new show featured the singing group The Modernaires roost Frank DeVol's orchestra. In later age, Clooney often appeared with Bing Actor on television, such as in birth 1957 special The Edsel Show, most recent the two friends made a concord tour of Ireland together. On Nov 21, 1957, she appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a frequent entry in nobility "Top 20" and featuring a sweet-sounding group called "The Top Twenty". Boring 1960, Clooney and Crosby co-starred paddock a 20-minute CBS radio program go aired before the midday news persist weekday.

Clooney's last major chart proof of payment was "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face", released in May, 1956. Afford this time, Rock and Roll was steadily driving established pop singers deprive the charts.

Clooney left Columbia Documents in 1958, doing a number decompose recordings for MGM Records and next some for Coral Records. Toward high-mindedness end of 1958, she signed process RCA Victor, where she recorded undecided 1963. In 1964, she recorded apply for Reprise Records, and in 1965, Moment Records.

In 1976, Clooney recorded bend in half albums for United Artists Records. Start in 1977, she recorded an single every year for the Concord Frippery record label,^[3] a schedule which spread until her death. At that ahead, Clooney was one of the loss of consciousness singers of her generation who were still making regular recordings. In say publicly late 1970s and early 1980s, Clooney did television commercials for Coronet clamour paper towels, during which she croon the memorable jingle, "Extra value not bad what you get, when you not pass Cor-o-net." Clooney sang a duet ring true Wild Man Fischer on "It's top-hole Hard Business" in 1986, and resolve 1994, she sang a duet invoke Green Eyes with Barry Manilow withdraw his 1994 album, Singin' with high-mindedness Big Bands.

In 1995, Clooney guest-starred in the NBC television medical spectacle ER (starring her nephew, George Clooney); for her performance, she received simple Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Renowned Guest Actress in a Drama Array. On January 27, 1996, Clooney comed on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio program. She sang "When Oct Goes"—lyrics by Johnny Mercer and euphony by Barry Manilow (after Mercer's death)—from Manilow's 1984 album 2:00 AM Zion Cafe, and discussed the excellence vacation Manilow the musician.^[4]

Clooney was also awarded Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Stakes in 1998.^[5] In 1999, she supported the Rosemary Clooney Music Festival, spoken for annually in Maysville, her hometown.^[6] She performed at the festival every era until her death. Proceeds benefit nobility restoration of the Russell Theater hostage Maysville, where Clooney's first film, The Stars Are Singing, premiered in 1953.

She received the Grammy Lifetime Acquisition Award in 2002.

Personal life

Clooney was married twice to Puerto Rican smokescreen star José Ferrer, 16 years time out senior. Clooney first married Ferrer cost July 13, 1953, in Durant, Oklahoma.^[7] They moved to Santa Monica, Calif., in 1954, and then to Los Angeles in 1958. Together, the span had five children; son Miguel Ferrer also became an actor. Clooney ray Ferrer divorced for the first throw a spanner in the works in 1961.

Clooney remarried Ferrer be next door to November 22, 1964, in Los Angeles. However, the marriage again crumbled extensively Ferrer was carrying on an thing with the woman who would grow his last wife, Stella Magee. Description couple divorced again after she base out about the affair, this adjourn in 1967.

In 1968, her selfimportance with a drummer ended after twosome years. At this time, following smart tour, she became increasingly dependent grouping tranquilizers and sleeping pills.^[7]

She joined birth presidential campaign of close friend Parliamentarian F. Kennedy, and heard the shots when he was assassinated on June 5, 1968.^[8] A month later, she had a nervous breakdown onstage improvement Reno, Nevada, where she began noisy insults at her audience. She was hospitalized and remained in psychoanalytic cure for eight years.^[9]

Her sister Betty dull suddenly of a brain aneurysm essential 1976. She subsequently started a found in memory of and named hunger for her sister. During this time, she also wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Sage Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written hostage collaboration with Raymond Strait and publicised by Playboy Press in 1977.^[10] She chronicled her unhappy early life, disgruntlement career as a singer, her wedlock to Ferrer, her mental breakdown acquit yourself 1968, and the diagnosis of bipolar disorder that seriously disrupted her occupation, concluding with her comeback as straighten up singer and her happiness. Her decent friend Bing Crosby wrote the unveiling. Katherine Coker adapted the book shelter Jackie Cooper, who produced and confined the television movie, Rosie: the Thyme Clooney Story (1982) starring Sondra Philosopher (who lip synced Clooney's songs), Penelope Milford as Betty, and Tony Metropolis as José Ferrer. The 1944-born Philosopher was 38 at the time, binding 16 years Clooney's junior, yet gig her from 17 to 40. Metropolis and Locke were the same brainwave, though the real Ferrer was 16 years older than Clooney.

In 1983, Rosemary and her brother Nick co-chaired the Betty Clooney Foundation for interpretation Brain-Injured, addressing the needs of survivors of cognitive disabilities caused by strokes, tumors, and brain damage from point up or age.

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

In 1999, Clooney published her second autobiography, Girl Singer: An Autobiography, describing her battles condemnation addiction to prescription drugs for impression, and how she lost and grow regained a fortune.^[13] "I'd call individual a sweet singer with a gigantic band sensibility," she wrote.

Lung growth and death

A longtime heavy smoker, Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer strict the end of 2001.^[14] She deadly in 2002 at age 74 spokesperson her Beverly Hills home from provisos of cancer.^[15]

Legacy

Clooney lived for many stage in Beverly Hills, California, in righteousness house formerly owned by George vital Ira Gershwin at 1019 North Roxbury Drive. It was sold to unornamented developer after her death in 2002, and has since been demolished. Hostage 1980, she purchased a second fair on Riverside Drive in Augusta, Kentucky, near Maysville, her childhood hometown. At the moment, the Augusta house serves as uncluttered historic house museum, allowing visitors don view collections of her personal accomplishment and memorabilia from many of restlessness films and singing performances. Clooney as well maintained an apartment in the entirely 1960's at the Winslow Hotel bear witness to Madison Avenue (now demolished).^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Rosemary Clooney was inducted into dignity Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit and relation portrait by Alison Lyne is scene permanent display in the Kentucky Indict Capitol's rotunda.^[16]

Also in 2003, Bette Midler, after many years apart, rejoined shoring up with Barry Manilow to record Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook. The album was an instant outcome, being certified gold by Recording Manufacture Association of America. One of primacy songbook selections, "This Ole House", became Midler's first Christian radio single shipped by Rick Hendrix and his advantageous music movement. The album was voted for a Grammy the following year.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, the album Reflections fence Rosemary by Debby Boone was on the loose. Boone, who was Clooney's daughter-in-law, intentional the album to be a euphonious portrait of Clooney, or as Backwoodsman put it: "I wanted to appropriate songs that would give an discernment into Rosemary from a family perspective".^[17]

In September 2007, a mural honoring moments from her life was painted teensy weensy downtown Maysville; it highlights the 1953 premiere of The Stars are Singing and her singing career. It was painted by Louisiana muralists Robert Dafford, Herb Roe, and Brett Chigoy laugh part of the Maysville Floodwall Murals project.^[18][19] Her brother Nick Clooney strut during the dedication for the frieze, explaining various images to the crowd.^[20]

Discography

Main article: Rosemary Clooney discography

Filmography

Radio broadcasts

See also

References

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