Today is the birthday of the great entertainer and comedienne, Rose Marie. It's one of the great thrills of my life that I got to work with and know this lady…and not just because she was a vital part of maybe my favorite TV program, The Dick Van Dyke Show. That's impressive but everything else she's done in her amazing career is impressive as well.
Since she's my friend, I'm not going to tell you how old she is. You can find a couple of different answers on the Internet. Let's just say she was a star when she was too young to go to Kindergarten and she's been a star ever since in every medium and working with just about everyone who mattered in comedy for much of the Twentieth Century, matching the men joke for joke and often topping them. At a time when women on stages were supposed to look good and play dumb, Rosie always looked good and got the laugh by being smart and clever. You could count the number of ladies who managed that on one hand and still have a couple of fingers left uncounted.