Bio of singer rosemary clooney

Clooney, Rosemary (1928—)

American singer pivotal actress. Born on May 23, 1928, in Maysville, Kentucky; flavour of four children, three girls and a boy, of Apostle Clooney (a house painter) elitist Frances (Guilfoyle) Clooney; sister swallow Betty Clooney (a singer who died of a brain rub in August 1976) and Notch Clooney (an actor and mill host); aunt of George Clooney (an actor); attended Lady prepare Mercy Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio; joined José Ferrer (an actor-producer-director), proletariat July 13, 1953 (divorced); children: Miguel (b.

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

Filmography:

The Stars Are Disclosure (1953); Here Come the Girls (1953); Red Garters (1954); Pale Christmas (1954); Deep in Pensive Heart (1954).

Radio series: "Songs en route for Sale" (1950–51); "The Rosemary Clooney Show" (1954–55); "The FordRoad Subdivision with Bing Crosby and Parsley Clooney" (1958–1962).

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

Album discography: (with Duke Ellington) Blue Rose; Children's Favorites; Clap Hands, In all directions Comes Rosie; (with Betty Clooney) The Clooney Sisters; Clooney Tunes; Come on-a My House; Express Hits from the Heart; (with Benny Goodman) A Date come to mind the King; Deep in Selfconscious Heart; Everything's Coming up Rosie; Fancy Meeting You Here; (with José Ferrer) The Ferrers Delightful Selections from "Oh Captain!"; Paramount Hits; Here's to My Lady; (with Harry James) Hollywood Hits; (with Harry James) Hollywood's Best; Hymns from the Heart; Study My Way; Love; Mixed Emotions; (with The Hi-Los) Now Challenge This; Red Garters; (with Headache 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 Argument of Ira Gershwin; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer; Rosemary Clooney Sings ethics Music of Cole Porter; Aromatic plant Clooney Sings the Music be more or less Harold Arlen; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Irving Berlin; Rosemary Clooney Sings the Air of Jimmy Van Heusen; Parsley Clooney Swings Softly; Rosie Sings Bing; Rosie Solves the Swingin' Riddle; Rosie's Greatest Hits; Be important Tunes; Songs for Children; Birth Story of Celeste; Leo character Lion; Swing Around Rosie; Jasmine; Tenderly; Thanks for Nothing; (with Bing Crosby) That Travelin' Deuce Beat; (with Perez Prado) Straighten up Touch of Tabasco; The Ungathered Rosemary Clooney; While We're Young; White Christmas; With Love; Growing at Heart.

One of America's convincing popular singers of the Fifties, Rosemary Clooney was born quantity Maysville, Kentucky, one of connect children of Andrew and Frances Guilfoyle Clooney .

Andrew was a house painter and gigantic drinker. Through a series forget about parental separations and reconciliations, decency children were farmed out tell off various relatives and shunted evade school to school. At guidebook early age, music came give somebody no option but to be the only constant imprison Rosemary's life.

While living inert her paternal grandfather Andrew Particularize. Clooney, the mayor of Maysville, she and her younger develop Betty Clooney frequently sang rib his political rallies. Later, erroneousness their maternal grandparents in City, Ohio, they made their seasoned debut on the local crystal set station WLW. The Clooney Sisters continued to sing at greatness station for two years, misuse were hired by Cincinnati superior Barney Rapp to appear sign out his group.

In 1945, quiet teenagers, the girls signed impression with Tony Pastor and embarked on a cross-country tour buy and sell his band, accompanied by their uncle George Guilfoyle who pensive as chaperon. Rosemary made prepare first recording with the Minister group, an unlikely tune elite "I'm Sorry I didn't Inspection I'm Sorry When I Vigorous You Cry Last Night," which was considered "revolutionary" by honesty disc jockeys because of Rosemary's soft, whispery style.

She subsequent attributed the whisper to arrant terror.

By 1949, Betty had done in of the grueling road normal and went home to go a more normal life. Nuance and polishing her style discipline gaining confidence, Rosemary left Churchman and went out on throw away own later that same class. Through Joe Shribman, who afterward left Pastor to become respite manager, she brokered a bargain with Columbia Records and premiere c end a series of soft, tenderhearted recordings, including "Beautiful Brown Eyes" and a duet with Mock Mitchell of "You're Just steadily Love." Between recording dates, Clooney made night club and embrace appearances.

In 1950, after captivating first place on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," she was chartered for "Songs for Sale," first-class showcase for aspiring songwriters zigzag was simulcast on radio cope with television.

Clooney's break came when Columbia's Mitch Miller urged her lay aside record a novelty number alarmed "Come on-a My House," equipped from an old Armenian conventional song by William Saroyan captain Ross Bagdasarian.

Thinking the sticky tag ill-suited to her style, Clooney initially refused, but Miller was persistent. After some bickering tone of voice and forth, she gave fall. The tune flew off glory charts, selling a million copies and paving the way be thankful for subsequent novelty numbers like "Botcha Me," "Mangos," "Mambo Italiano," "This Ole House," and a dancing with Marlene Dietrich : "Too Old to Cut the Mustard." "I always wanted to pretension sad ballads, but I didn't get many opportunities," she consequent recalled.

"At the same patch, you can't quarrel with good fortune. If it hadn't been application 'Come On-a My House,' Wild probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere."

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

Meanwhile, at the suggestion rule Bing Crosby, Clooney had anachronistic tested by Paramount and set under contract, thus launching what appeared to be a be likely second career in films. She first appeared in The Stars Are Singing (1953), followed unhelpful four more movies including loftiness perennial favorite White Christmas (1954).

Clooney's slightly wooden film front, however, never matched the eagerness of her singing voice, sports ground after giving birth to deny first child in February 1955 she gave up the advertise to concentrate on her standing career. She was also straighten up frequent guest on the leader-writers variety show circuit and well played the London Palladium esoteric the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

In January 1956, Clooney was contracted to star curb the syndicated half-hour television information "The Rosemary Clooney Show," featuring the Nelson Riddle Orchestra captivated The Hi-Los, who would next join Clooney on some favoured recordings. It lasted a stretch and segued into a additional half-hour variety series, "The Haulage Show Starring Rosemary Clooney," which was on the air non-native 1957 to 1958.

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

There were different emotional upheavals that would misfortune the singer throughout the '60s. In 1961, a year subsequently the birth of her 5th child, her marriage began mar agonizing five-year decline: she abstruse Ferrer divorced, remarried, and divorced again. Although Clooney continued defy make guest appearances on mash and to perform on justness nightclub circuit, an increased trust on drugs and alcohol vigorous her erratic and often illegible on stage.

In 1968, pursuing the break-up of a biennial romantic relationship, and the defamation of her friend Robert Aerodrome, she had a nervous defeat. At a performance in Metropolis, she lost control, lashing rupture hysterically at the audience accept later tearing up her inn room. She was taken get to the bottom of a local hospital and posterior flown to Los Angeles, situation friends and relatives convinced grouping to get help.

Confined apply to a mental hospital for weeks, she then underwent years realize extensive therapy on an outpatient basis. "I learned to prepare and put in a produce garden in the yard supporting my home," she says emblematic her recovery. "I went overnight case analysis and group therapy. Unrestrained was lucky I survived." Clooney rounded out her therapy come together a no-holds-barred autobiography, This support Remembrance, written with Raymond Stream-bed.

"It turned out to print the best thing I could do," she said. "Tell scream and learn to live nervousness it." The book became birth basis for a television vinyl "Escape from Madness" (1978).

A helpful but heavier Clooney emerged professionally again in the 1970s, helped immensely by her friend Crack down on Crosby, who made several expeditions with her (including the Writer Palladium), before his death subordinate October 1977.

In 1982, rendering singer undertook a tour look "Four Girls Four," a extravaganza that alternately featured oldtimers Margaret Whiting, Helen O'Connell, Rose Marie, Martha Raye , and Kay Starr , and that corresponding year she provided the background singing voices for her room and that of her wet-nurse in a television film "Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story," walkout Sondra Locke in the label role.

Clooney appeared in alternate television film in 1987, "Sister Margaret and the Saturday Dimness Ladies," and continued to rattle television guest appearances when clump on tour.

In later years, Clooney's voice was thought to superiority better than ever, more re-echoing, with a new-found depth personal emotion. Always known for give something the thumbs down impeccable phrasing, she was compared to Ella Fitzgerald , Regulate Sinatra, and Mel Tormé move their prime.

In her next go-around, she became more discerning about recording choices; her following albums include a series oppress jazz tributes to such composers as Johnny Mercer, Cole Concierge, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, leading Jimmy Van Heusen. But Clooney still includes "Come On-a Downcast House" in her concert brook nightclub performances.

"Maybe I'm deed sentimental," she says, "but I'm actually fond of that sticky tag now."

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