I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
I've got to get back to work. I've been doing nothing but running up bills. It's time to start paying them off.
Our open car became a motorcade. I rode with Grandma, with our mayor... and with Blanchie Mae Chambers; I'd refused to ride without her.
So you see, you can't do everything alone.
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.
I think acting is the most thankless profession in the world.
In the final analysis, it's true that fame is unimportant. No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.
When Rosemary recently remarried, her nephew George, according to rumor, did not attend, as he "did not wish to steal away the spotlight" on his aunt's special day.
One-time boyfriends included TV's "Today" show host Dave Garroway.
The Maysville, Kentucky street where her parents lived when she was born was renamed in her honor.
Sister of actor and AMC host Nick Clooney
She is George Clooney's aunt.
Mother of actor Miguel Ferrer
Mother of actor Rafael Ferrer
Son Gabriel Ferrer is an artist.
Rosemary started out with her sister, Betty Clooney (1931-1976), as a singing duo on radio and in bands before going solo. When Betty died of a brain aneurysm at age 45, Rosie spearheaded a living memorial to her sister with the Betty Clooney Center in Long Beach, California, for brain-injured young adults. She performs annually to raise funds for this foundation.
Mother-in-law of singer Debby Boone.
Winner of the MAC Award.
Performs anually at "Rosemary Clooney Music Festival" in her hometown of Maysville, Kentucky.
Performing once on the same bill with singer/pianist Michael Feinstein at the Hollywood Bowl, they both appeared highly nervous before setting foot on stage. Expecting Rosie to give him words of strength and encouragement, she instead told him, "Don't think this ever gets any easier."
Rosemary hated the derivative Armenian folk song "Come On-a My House" and originally resisted recording the song she considered "dumb" with lyrics that "sounded more like a drunken chant than an historic folk art form." Within weeks of her finally relenting, she found herself with one of the biggest-selling hits in the country, selling more than a million copies. It still did not endear her to the song, however, and she usually tried to squirm out of singing it at her concerts and nightclub appearances when requested.
Appeared on The Edsel Show (1957) (TV) with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong. The show was aired on October 13, 1957 and introduced Ford's ill-fated Edsel automobile to a nationwide audience.
Buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery near her mother and grandmother in Maysville, Ky.
Her brother, veteran television newscaster Nick Clooney, gave a eulogy at the end of the hour-long traditional Catholic funeral mass. Actor George Clooney, Nick's son, sat with more than three dozen family members and was one of 10 pallbearers. Also in the crowd were singer Debby Boone, Clooney's daughter-in-law; actors Al Pacino and Beverly D'Angelo; and Maysville native and former Miss America Heather Renee French, the wife of Kentucky Lt. Gov. Steve Henry.
Had five children with José Ferrer. Their first son, Miguel, was born in 1955. He was followed by Maria in 1956, Gabriel in 1957, Monsita in 1958 and Rafael in 1960.
Measurements: 37C-24-34 (in 1953), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Is portrayed by Sondra Locke in Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982) (TV)
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