Jeez Millie, have a heart.
I've always had a soft spot for Rose Marie, who appeared as Millie in one of my favorite episodes, Monkee Mother. But she actually appeared as a guest star twice, showing up as the wife of a mobster who was bumped off, "so now I'm the Big Man!"
Rose Marie was born in 1923 and started her career in vaudeville as Baby Rose Marie at the age of three. Throughout her 90-year career, she did stage, small screen, large screen, radio, and animated voice-overs, which is amazing considering she started her career in the silent movie era. She died in 2017 at the age of 93; her last acting credit was in the cartoon series Garfield and Friends in 2015.
Hello sweet boys
Edited to include some love for Ruth Buzzi, who passed May 2 at the age of 88. She got her start after high school in an off-Broadway revue, and her repertoire expanded quickly to include movies, television, and sketch comedy. She won a Clio for television commercials?! Her stardom rose in the 60s with appearances on The Monkees, That Girl, and in the sketch comedy show Laugh In.
The next generation got to know her in Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, You Can't Do That on Television, Alice, and as a voice actor for numerous Saturday morning cartoons. By the 90s, she appeared on Sesame Street, making cameos in music videos for Weird Al and the B-52s, given story arcs on soap operas, and was Screech Powers' Elvis-loving mother on Saved By the Bell.
A kind and creative person, she donated time and money to numerous charities, was an oil painting hobbyist, and was an avid car collector.
She made a living as the old dingbat, but I never saw her as that. Her beautiful smile revealed she was in on the joke. What a life. Goodspeed.
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