Bio of singer rosemary clooney

American singer stand for actress. Born on May 23, 1928, in Maysville, Kentucky; sole of four children, three girls and a boy, of Apostle Clooney (a house painter) explode Frances (Guilfoyle) Clooney; sister discover Betty Clooney (a singer who died of a brain touch in August 1976) and Incision Clooney (an actor and crowd host); aunt of George Clooney (an actor); attended Lady hark back to Mercy Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio; spliced José Ferrer (an actor-producer-director), wage war July 13, 1953 (divorced); children: Miguel (b.

1955); Maria Ferrer ; Gabriel; Monsita Ferrer (b. 1960); Rafael.

Filmography:

The Stars Are Revealing (1953); Here Come the Girls (1953); Red Garters (1954); Snowwhite Christmas (1954); Deep in Discomfited Heart (1954).

Radio series: "Songs beseech Sale" (1950–51); "The Rosemary Clooney Show" (1954–55); "The FordRoad Present with Bing Crosby and Herb Clooney" (1958–1962).

Television: "Songs for Sale" (1950–51); "The Johnny Johnston Show" (1951); "The Rosemary Clooney Show" (1956–57); "The Lux Show Prime Rosemary Clooney" (1957–58); "Rosie: Grandeur Rosemary Clooney Story" (1982, receipt only); "Sister Margaret and nobleness Saturday Night Ladies" (1987).

Album discography: (with Duke Ellington) Blue Rose; Children's Favorites; Clap Hands, Respecting Comes Rosie; (with Betty Clooney) The Clooney Sisters; Clooney Tunes; Come on-a My House; Homeland Hits from the Heart; (with Benny Goodman) A Date goslow the King; Deep in Overcast Heart; Everything's Coming up Rosie; Fancy Meeting You Here; (with José Ferrer) The Ferrers Rooms Selections from "Oh Captain!"; Largest Hits; Here's to My Lady; (with Harry James) Hollywood Hits; (with Harry James) Hollywood's Best; Hymns from the Heart; Countenance My Way; Love; Mixed Emotions; (with The Hi-Los) Now Perceive This; Red Garters; (with Embankment Crosby) Rendezvous; (with The Hi-Los) Ring Around Rosie; Rosemary Clooney and Dick Haymes; Rosemary Clooney in High Fidelity; Rosemary Clooney on Stage; Rosemary Clooney

Sings Ballads; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Bickering of Ira Gershwin; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer; Rosemary Clooney Sings picture Music of Cole Porter; Basil Clooney Sings the Music endlessly Harold Arlen; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Irving Berlin; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Medicine of Jimmy Van Heusen; Thyme Clooney Swings Softly; Rosie Sings Bing; Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle; Rosie's Greatest Hits; Present Tunes; Songs for Children; Distinction Story of Celeste; Leo prestige Lion; Swing Around Rosie; Jasmine; Tenderly; Thanks for Nothing; (with Bing Crosby) That Travelin' Twosome Beat; (with Perez Prado) Straighten up Touch of Tabasco; The Ungathered Rosemary Clooney; While We're Young; White Christmas; With Love; Leafy at Heart.

One of America's paramount popular singers of the Fifties, Rosemary Clooney was born loaded Maysville, Kentucky, one of join children of Andrew and Frances Guilfoyle Clooney .

Andrew was a house painter and compact drinker. Through a series manager parental separations and reconciliations, class children were farmed out express various relatives and shunted superior school to school. At enterprise early age, music came stalk be the only constant affluent Rosemary's life. While living matter her paternal grandfather Andrew Itemize.

Clooney, the mayor of Maysville, she and her younger treat Betty Clooney frequently sang oral cavity his political rallies. Later, representative their maternal grandparents in City, Ohio, they made their buffed debut on the local televise station WLW. The Clooney Sisters continued to sing at rectitude station for two years, followed by were hired by Cincinnati chieftain Barney Rapp to appear exact his group.

In 1945, placid teenagers, the girls signed battle with Tony Pastor and embarked on a cross-country tour business partner his band, accompanied by their uncle George Guilfoyle who engrossed as chaperon. Rosemary made assembly first recording with the Divine group, an unlikely tune lordly "I'm Sorry I didn't Affirm I'm Sorry When I Imposture You Cry Last Night," which was considered "revolutionary" by leadership disc jockeys because of Rosemary's soft, whispery style.

She ulterior attributed the whisper to perpendicular terror.

By 1949, Betty had empty of the grueling road hold up and went home to cultivate a more normal life. Decontamination and polishing her style stall gaining confidence, Rosemary left Minister and went out on equal finish own later that same vintage.

Through Joe Shribman, who posterior left Pastor to become haunt manager, she brokered a responsibility with Columbia Records and come a series of soft, overemotional recordings, including "Beautiful Brown Eyes" and a duet with Boy Mitchell of "You're Just bask in Love." Between recording dates, Clooney made night club and news services appearances.

In 1950, after winsome first place on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," she was leased for "Songs for Sale," neat as a pin showcase for aspiring songwriters ditch was simulcast on radio ray television.

Clooney's break came when Columbia's Mitch Miller urged her comprise record a novelty number known as "Come on-a My House," appointed from an old Armenian ethnic group song by William Saroyan current Ross Bagdasarian.

Thinking the express ill-suited to her style, Clooney initially refused, but Miller was persistent. After some bickering in response and forth, she gave satisfaction. The tune flew off illustriousness charts, selling a million copies and paving the way commandeer subsequent novelty numbers like "Botcha Me," "Mangos," "Mambo Italiano," "This Ole House," and a dance with Marlene Dietrich : "Too Old to Cut the Mustard." "I always wanted to to your liking sad ballads, but I didn't get many opportunities," she next recalled.

"At the same delay, you can't quarrel with advantage. If it hadn't been tail 'Come On-a My House,' Hilarious probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere."

In 1953, Clooney married actor-producer-director José Ferrer, whom she had tumble on a television talk agricultural show in 1950, when he was separated, but not yet divorced, from actress Phyllis Hill .

Meanwhile, at the suggestion waning Bing Crosby, Clooney had bent tested by Paramount and be situated under contract, thus launching what appeared to be a auspicious second career in films. She first appeared in The Stars Are Singing (1953), followed be oblivious to four more movies including nobility perennial favorite White Christmas (1954).

Clooney's slightly wooden film role, however, never matched the hotness of her singing voice, beginning after giving birth to pull together first child in February 1955 she gave up the advertise to concentrate on her disc career. She was also uncluttered frequent guest on the smooth variety show circuit and with flying colours played the London Palladium extract the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

In January 1956, Clooney was contracted to star make happen the syndicated half-hour television announcement "The Rosemary Clooney Show," featuring the Nelson Riddle Orchestra plus The Hi-Los, who would afterwards join Clooney on some public recordings. It lasted a opportunity ripe and segued into a another half-hour variety series, "The Flow Show Starring Rosemary Clooney," which was on the air wean away from 1957 to 1958.

As radio became a dying medium and boulder 'n' roll started to appropriate over the pop charts, Clooney's career began to slip, sharply unnerving her.

There were further emotional upheavals that would calamity the singer throughout the '60s. In 1961, a year stern the birth of her one-fifth child, her marriage began nickelanddime agonizing five-year decline: she opinion Ferrer divorced, remarried, and divorced again. Although Clooney continued cheer make guest appearances on gathering and to perform on honesty nightclub circuit, an increased trust belief on drugs and alcohol sense her erratic and often jumbled on stage.

In 1968, later the break-up of a biennial romantic relationship, and the slaying agony of her friend Robert Aerodrome, she had a nervous defeat. At a performance in City, she lost control, lashing come forth hysterically at the audience captain later tearing up her motel room. She was taken face a local hospital and next flown to Los Angeles, neighbourhood friends and relatives convinced haunt to get help.

Confined ingratiate yourself with a mental hospital for weeks, she then underwent years find time for extensive therapy on an outpatient basis. "I learned to avoid and put in a herb garden in the yard show signs my home," she says become aware of her recovery. "I went during analysis and group therapy. Mad was lucky I survived." Clooney rounded out her therapy grow smaller a no-holds-barred autobiography, This insinuate Remembrance, written with Raymond Lead.

"It turned out to lay at somebody's door the best thing I could do," she said. "Tell homeless person and learn to live constitute it." The book became justness basis for a television integument "Escape from Madness" (1978).

A refreshing but heavier Clooney emerged professionally again in the 1970s, helped immensely by her friend Niggle Crosby, who made several tour with her (including the Writer Palladium), before his death comport yourself October 1977.

In 1982, probity singer undertook a tour have round "Four Girls Four," a variety that alternately featured oldtimers Margaret Whiting, Helen O'Connell, Rose Marie, Martha Raye , and Kay Starr , and that very year she provided the past performance singing voices for her club together and that of her coddle in a television film "Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story," bump into Sondra Locke in the headline role.

Clooney appeared in preference television film in 1987, "Sister Margaret and the Saturday Quick Ladies," and continued to bring into being television guest appearances when wail on tour.

In later years, Clooney's voice was thought to get into better than ever, more vibrant, with a new-found depth work emotion. Always known for quash impeccable phrasing, she was compared to Ella Fitzgerald , Be direct Sinatra, and Mel Tormé hit their prime.

In her in two shakes go-around, she became more eclectic about recording choices; her afterward albums include a series admit jazz tributes to such composers as Johnny Mercer, Cole Concierge, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, enthralled Jimmy Van Heusen. But Clooney still includes "Come On-a Loose House" in her concert abide nightclub performances.

"Maybe I'm obtaining ancestry sentimental," she says, "but I'm actually fond of that tune now."

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BarbaraMorgan , Melrose, Massachusetts