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name	Inga Swenson
birth date	December 29, 1932
birth place	Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	1957–1998
spouse	Lowell Harris (1953-present)
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Inga Swenson (born December 29, 1932; Omaha, Nebraska) is an American actress.

Inga Swenson was a graduate of Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, Class of 1950. Swenson was a member of Alpha Phi sorority at Northwestern University where she studied in their famed Drama Department. Swenson is best known to American audiences for her portrayal of "Gretchen Kraus", the autocratic and acerbic German cook (later Head Housekeeper and Budget Director) on the TV sitcom ''Benson''. She got the part by appearing in a multi-episode stint as "Ingrid Svenson", birth mother of Corinne Tate (Diana Canova), on the TV sitcom ''Soap''. Both series were created by Susan Harris and produced by Witt-Thomas-Harris Productions (who later created ''The Golden Girls'' and ''Empty Nest''. She also appeared as northern matriarch Maude Hazard in the acclaimed mini-series ''North and South'' in 1985 and again in 1986.

Earlier in her career, Swenson had a notable turn on the TV western series ''Bonanza'' in two episodes: "Inger, My Love" (1962) and "Journey Remembered" (1963). Swenson took a brief leave of absence from her starring role in ''110 in the Shade'' on Broadway to appear in "Journey Remembered." The appearances were significant in that she played Lorne Greene's Ben Cartwright character's second wife, the mother of Hoss Cartwright, played by Dan Blocker, She was actually four years younger than Blocker. After ''Bonanza'' ended its 14-year run, Swenson guest starred in an episode of Lorne Greene's short-lived crime drama ''Griff''.

Also early in her career Swenson had supporting roles in the films ''Advise and Consent'' (1962) and ''The Miracle Worker'' (1962) in which she played Helen Keller's mother.

She is a trained lyric soprano and starred on Broadway in ''New Faces'' (circa 1956), ''The First Gentleman'' (1959) and received Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in ''110 in the Shade'' (1964) and ''Baker Street'' (1965).

Swenson is married to actor-singer Lowell Harris, with whom she had two sons, James (deceased) and Mark.

Though her Swedish-sounding name and trademark accent on ''Benson'' suggest otherwise, she was born and raised in the U.S., and normally speaks with an American accent.

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The Shade (Richard Swift) is a comic book character developed in the 1940s for National Comics. Debuted as a villain, the Shade was best known for fighting against two generations of superheroes, most notably the Golden Age and Silver Age versions of the Flash. He eventually became a mentor for Jack Knight, the son of the Golden Age Starman Ted Knight, a character the Shade had also fought.

Though initially portrayed in the Golden Age comics as a thief with a cane that could manipulate shadows, the character was reinvented in 1994 as a morally ambiguous Victorian era immortal who gained the ability to manipulate shadows and his immortality from an unexplained mystical event. In 2009, Shade was ranked as IGN's 89th Greatest Villain of All Time.

Fictional character biography

Pre-Crisis

The Shade was introduced in ''Flash Comics'' #33, as a villain for the original Golden Age Flash. He was portrayed as a thief who could manipulate the shadows with a magical cane. He fought both the Golden Age Flash and his Silver Age counterpart Barry Allen. He was a member of several supervillain teams, including the Injustice Society. Shade was one of three villains used for the first meeting of the two heroes in the famous Flash of Two Worlds story, which reintroduced the Golden Age Flash to the Silver Age. He was jailed along with the Wizard and Fiddler. In the "Crisis on Earth-S" story (Justice League of America #136) he is one of King Kull's agents positioned on Earth-S to wipe out humanity there. With Doctor Light he causes perpetual night and darkness on either side of the planet, but is met by Bulletman and Hawkman.

The Shade was at the Louvre Museum, where he was causing all the figures in the classical paintings to become real people and move off their canvasses. Bulletman found that as he got close to any of the figures, his hand began changing, becoming two-dimensional. Hawkman’s wings blew the painted people away, and the two heroes went after the Shade. Bulletman was able to use his Gravity Helmet to repel the Shade’s darkness cane out of his hands. As Hawkman attempted to use it to stop the darkness (which was being caused by an overhead satellite), even the Shade was surprised that nothing happened. As the heroes got together again to discuss their options, they decided to use each weapon to move the satellites until they crashed together. The destruction of the two devices caused everything to revert back to normal, including the transformed body parts of our heroes.

Post-Crisis

Shade returned in print in 1986, as a member of the Wizard's new incarnation of the Injustice Society. The Shade's next appearance was in a flashback story in ''Secret Origins'' #50 (1989), which explained the story of the post-Crisis first meeting of Jay Garrick and Barry Allen.

Post Zero-Hour

After Zero Hour, The Shade's origin was changed drastically. The Shade was retconned to an English gentleman named Richard Swift, a young man in the year 1838. One night in London, Swift was trapped amidst an unexplained mystical tragedy, which killed 104 people. The most immediate of effects upon him was the permanent loss of all memory before the incident; fortunately, a carriage appeared and took him in. The gentleman who had picked him up gave him the name Piers Ludlow, and offered to help him reencounter his past. Accepting his "kindness", Swift was taken to Ludlow's house and was taken to a house the next evening. However, the whole affair was a setup; the whole Ludlow family was in fact a band of killers and swindlers, and they had perpetuated a scheme many times over: to kill one of their wealthy, reclusive business partners and have a vagrant killed in his vicinity to give the impression of a failed robbery/homicide. However, when they intended to repeat the scheme with Swift as the scapegoat, he reflexively unleashed his shadows, killing all the present Ludlows. Only a young pair of twins, absent from the excursion, survived. The following evening Swift met one of his true friends prior to the incident: the author Charles Dickens.

For decades thereafter, Swift lived a relatively normal life, one which changed when Rupert Ludlow, one of the surviving twins, appeared and ambushed him along with a band of hired killers, informing him of the murderous intent of the family and of its exponential growth. Though grievously injured, Swift still managed to kill Ludlow, (by then he had already discovered his immortality). Afterward, he left England and started a career as an adventurer/assassin/observer on life, which spanned whole continents and led him to many adventures. While traveling, he met Brian Savage (Scalphunter) and visited Opal City for the first time. He established himself in Opal, acquiring real estate and generally living well, even encountering Oscar Wilde, although he never quit the adventuring life, ensuring he would always have a considerable fortune waiting for him. However, during his journeys, he also met a similar immortal born of the same incident and bearing his same powers: a dwarf by the name of Culp, who would become his mortal adversary.

During all of the Shade's escapades, he had been pursued quite actively by the Ludlows, whom he abated with little remorse, killing dozens of the family before meeting Marguerite Croft, a young lady, with whom he fell in love and established with in Paris during the thirties. Unfortunately, she proved to be a Ludlow, and tried to kill Shade by poisoning him. Shade survived the toxins, and was forced to kill Marguerite when she confessed that though she loved him, she would make more attempts on his life due to loyalty to her family. This left Shade with a sense of general depression and the feeling he could never love again. Because of this and the death of Brian Savage, he resumed his activities as an assassin.

During World War II, he left America to defend his country from the bombing raids, and fought Culp again. A bomb blast, falling on top of them, sent Culp into Shade's body. Unaware of this, Shade returned to America and to Keystone City. This was the time of the Golden Age of Heroes, and of them all he chose one as his adversary: Jay Garrick, the first Flash. For him, it was little more than a game, posing as a gimmicky villain (influenced by Culp) to get away with his truly important crimes unnoticed, and felt genuinely disappointed with the retirement of Garrick. This lasted until another "superhero", the Spider, came along. Shade, feeling curiosity for the Spider's motives, discovered he was in fact a criminal, getting rid of the competition, and a Ludlow by birth. Shade defended Keystone by killing the Spider and rescuing Flash and his wife from a murder attempt. When asked as to his own motives, he responded he truly enjoyed Garrick for his wit and humor, and that he already had a city to love and devote to (he protected Opal from harm several times, even saving Starman from a murder attempt and not committing even a single crime within its limits).

During the 1960s he briefly teamed up with Doctor Fate to take down what was apparently one of Culp's criminal ventures, a mystic organization of madmen, the Wise Fools, who wished to repeat the ritual that created him by apparently summoning a wild, uncontrolled bubble of shadow (actually Culp's shadow, separated from Shade by Culp). Unaware that Culp's consciousness was actually within Shade, he and Dr. Fate destroyed the Wise Fools operation and threw the bubble into an empty dimension (where it continued to immensely grow in power and size), unaware that Culp had foreseen all of it and that it was only a step in a much larger plan, one which almost culminated in the destruction of Opal City.

Starman

James Robinson decided to use Shade, giving the character a starring role in his new ''Starman'' series in 1994. In the first story arc, ''Sins of the Father'', Jack apparently finds an enemy in Shade when he kidnaps his father, retired Starman Ted Knight on the orders of the senile Mist, who wishes for a final showdown. Shade later betrays the Mist by allying himself with the O'Dare Family, a clan of police officers who assist Jack in memory of their father Billy O'Dare, a policeman who had often assisted the original Starman. Shade, with the O'Dares, assaults the Mist's hideout and rescues Ted Knight. Out of the O'Dares, he befriended the family's "black sheep", Matt O'Dare.

Much of the Shade's past is revealed through journal entries included in the ''Starman'' comics, including the flashback issues called "Tales of Times Past". They often dealt with different Starmen, including Jack's father Ted, as well as other characters from the Starman mythos such as Brian Savage. There were a total of 10 "Times Past" issues in the 80-issue series. "Excerpts" from the Shade's journal often replaced the ''Starman'' letters column, frequently giving additional background related to the story or background into Shade's motivations. These excerpts are written as prose, as opposed to a more traditional comic style, with occasional illustrations, and as journal entries being written by the Shade himself at different points in his existence.

Shade has an active part in an adventure of Jack's involving a demon hidden within a poster that can snatch innocent people and drag them into Hell. Shade, as always, wishes peace for Opal, and also does not like Merritt, the human guardian of the poster, who has gained immortality for his protection of it, and consequently become the inspiration for Wilde's ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''. In a fight for possession of the poster, Matt O'Dare is dragged within and Shade follows. Within the poster, Shade agrees to sell his soul in exchange for the liberation of all the souls contained within (something that, unknown to Shade, Jack Knight and Matt O'Dare have also agreed to do), but the demon, unable to accept a selfless deal, releases all of them. Following this, Matt decides to turn over a new leaf and put his crooked past behind him. Shade assists him in his efforts, partly influenced by the revelation O'Dare is, in fact, the reincarnated lawman Scalphunter, an old friend.

A particularly important point in the life of Shade comes when he meets the demon-lord Neron. Neron offers, as he has to many supervillains before, to augment Shade's power. However, Shade sees little use in Neron's offer, as he has no need to increase his already substantial wealth, he sees no way of heightening his shadows' power, and is already immortal. Neron, angered by his rejection, swears vengeance against Shade.

Over the years the Ludlows have apparently ceased to attack him, which Shade sees as a respite. This lasts until the wife of the last Ludlow by blood calls him to the city of Ludlow to talk her husband out of attempting an attack on him that would certainly cost him his life. Shade answers the summons and talks Ludlow out of his silly vendetta, apparently burying a legacy of hate that has lasted more than one hundred and fifty years.

Another notable point during the series' run came when the Godwave struck the DC universe, depowering almost all superheroes. In a confrontation between Starman, Matt O'Dare, Green Lantern, and The Infernal Doctor Pip, in which Pip almost blows up a large section of an Opal skyscraper, Shade appears at the last minute and draws Pip into the Darklands, which serve as his power source, before the bomb can explode. The plot twist is that his powers are unaffected by the depowerment, with a note indicating there are powers not even God wants anything to do with, referencing the dark origins of the Shade's massive powers.

At various times, Culp is able to take control over or subtly influence The Shade. At one specific point, Culp takes full control to talk to Jack, in the process making a mistake about the name of a Wilde story. Around the time Jack returns from space in the "Stars, My Destination" story arc, Culp is able to assume full control over Shade's body for an extended period of time and imprison or neutralize most of Opal City's heroes in a bid to loot and destroy Opal - with no other motive than to destroy what Shade loves most. Gathering an army of villains whom Jack has battled over the course of the series, Culp absorbs Shade's powers, in addition to the ever-growing and tremendously powerful shadow force Shade and Dr. Fate had exiled decades before, to cast a spell allowing him to trap Opal City in an impenetrable bubble of shadow and force a confrontation with the city's heroes. Many of the supervillains helping Culp have been gathered by either Neron, the still-vengeful daughter of the Mist, or one of the last Ludlows in existence, the son of the false hero the Spider. This story is the climax of the series, told in the "Grand Guignol" arc.

Shade eventually is able to cast out Culp, losing his shadow powers in the process. However, Culp underestimates the Shade, and is tricked into allowing a small shadow imp loyal to Shade to be absorbed into his own shadow, leading to a battle of wills in which Shade draws all the darkness into himself (adding Culp's shadow's might to it, augmented by the Wise Fools ritual), leaving Culp powerless. Shortly thereafter, Culp attempts to buy his freedom by threatening the younger Mist, but is killed in the process by the elder Mist. This is a turning point for Shade, as he now has freedom of choice, is able to discern right from wrong, and therefore able to decide whether he wishes to remain a villain or become a true hero, protecting his city. He is present at the final showdown with the Mist and leaves the building with Ralph Dibny, Jack, and Theo Kyle Knight.

Post-Starman

Since the end of the ''Starman'' series, the Shade has made cameo appearances in several comic series, including ''Green Arrow'' and ''JSA'' and was listed alongside magical-based villains such as Felix Faust and Circe. He also has a brief appearance in DC's ''Brave New World'' in 2006. During the Infinite Crisis, he is seen using his powers to help Opal citizens, by protecting the buildings they are in (though, in a remark full of his trademark cynicism, reminiscent of his status as a solitary man, he comments he is not doing it to save the citizens themselves, but, rather, he is "saving the architecture").

He shows up in Robinson's ''Justice League: Cry for Justice'', waiting for his old rival Jay Garrick in his home. He informs Garrick that the insane supervillain Prometheus has ordered a series of attacks on various superheros (including Batwoman, Barry Allen, Crimson Avenger, and Stargirl) in order to distract them from a sinister master plan. Shade then accompanies Jay to the JLA Watchtower in order to warn the other heroes of the impending doom. He and Jay arrive at the Watchtower just as Prometheus (who had disguised himself as Freddy Freeman and defeated the entire League) attempts to escape. Though Jay is easily floored, the Shade proves difficult to defeat (as he is technically not a "hero", meaning Prometheus has no file on how to stop him), and ultimately ends up stopping Donna Troy from killing the supervillain after he has been beaten into submission. However, the Shade later creates a portal that gives Green Arrow access to Prometheus' otherdimensional lair, where the archer kills Prometheus in revenge for Star City, the dismemberment of his former protege Red Arrow, and the death of Red Arrow's daughter.

During the Blackest Night, Shade is in a relationship with Hope O'Dare, and claims that he is in love with her. After a night of sex, Shade and Hope are confronted by David Knight, reanimated as a Black Lantern. David rips out Shade's heart, but, due to his powers, he survives, unable to be killed and resisting the call of a black ring that seeks to turn him into another undead. After David threatens to kill Hope and later Jack, an enraged Shade uses his powers to trap the Black Lantern within the Shadowlands after decrying the Lantern as a mockery and a fake, saying he has "no light of his own", and uses his own heart as a channel to bind and banish him. Afterwards, Hope admits that she loves Shade as well, and the two lovers depart from the scene of the battle.

Shortly after the events of Blackest Night, the Shade is approached by Hal Jordan and Barry Allen, and he takes them to the Ghost Zone where they find the rotting corpse of Prometheus.

It was recently announced by Robinson that a solo Shade series is currently in development.

During ''Brightest Day'', Jay Garrick arrives at the Shade's home alongside Doctor Mid-Nite, Sebastian Faust, and Wildcat in order to see if he can help them track down the missing Obsidian, who possesses abilities similar to those of the Shade. After entering the house, the JSA members find Obsidian and Doctor Fate standing over the Shade's comatose body. Obsidian, now possessed by a cosmic entity known as the Starheart, tells the heroes that the Shade would have told them his "secrets", and that the Starheart commanded that he and Fate silence him. Following the defeat of the Starheart, Congorilla mentions that the Shade has been missing since his assault at the hands of Obsidian, and that nobody has been able to contact him.

Shade's disappearance is explained shortly after this, when it is revealed that he had been captured and brainwashed by Eclipso. Realizing that Shade could turn the tide of the battle, Saint Walker sends the Atom and Starman inside his body to fight off the effects of Eclipso's brainwashing. The heroes narrowly manage to free the Shade's mind, and he turns against Eclipso and ultimately helps the Justice Leagye defeat the villain once and for all.

Possible futures

During the ''Starman'' story arc "Stars, My Destination" Jack is thrown by a shadowy corridor created by a future Shade across time and space into a future where Shade's powers overtake him due to a disease that Culp had infected him with during their final battle (the absorption of Culp's shadow, along with the mystical enhancements brought as a consequence of the Wise Fools ritual). His shadow begins expanding into the universe and threatens areas protected by the Legion. Rescuing him, the future Shade explains how Jack may be able to stop it from ever happening by using his cosmic rod on him in the past. He later opens another time portal to allow Jack to journey across time again to reach his destination, Throneworld. In the final issue of ''Starman'', Jack apparently is able stop the disease before it has the chance to affect Shade; this apparently changes the future that he had seen on his space voyage.

''Starman Annual #1'' shows a possible future for Shade, as the protector of a Utopian planet thousands of years from the present. As with the current Shade, he enjoys telling tales of his past. The planet's technology and possibly the planet itself seemed to made almost entirely out of Cosmic Rod technology inspired by Starman and his legacy.

Powers and abilities

Shade is at present one of the best, if not the ultimate, channeler of the power of the Darklands, a quasi-sentient, extra-dimensional mass of malleable darkness which he can channel to various effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: he can summon and control "demons" from there, summon and dispel shields and areas of complete darkness, create all kinds of constructs out of shadows (in a similar manner to a Green Lantern, with the exception of the color of the constructs), transport himself and others through it over massive distances, and can, if necessary, use it as a last-ditch prison dimension. The darkness itself can be dispelled by sufficiently bright blasts of energy. Eventually, his experience with the shadows allows him to create corridors through time (the most dramatic instance being when he sends Jack Knight's spaceship from a point in space in late twentieth century to the neighborhood of Xanthu in the Legion of Super-Heroes' era and from there to Krypton, several decades before its destruction). These powers have also granted Shade agelessness and immortality. Overall, his powers are formidable to the point that Dr. Fate once remarked that even The Spectre would have serious difficulty dealing with him, possibly due to the origin of his powers (the former realm of a divine entity on par with God). He is heavily resistant to damage, as seen when a demolition bomb falls on him, leaving him only slightly dazed. Even with his heart torn out of his chest by Black Lantern David Knight, he remained alive and unable to die.

His only weakness (if it can be called such) is the fact that if he loses his shadow, he becomes vulnerable. However, this can only occur if a survivor from the same event in 1838 drains him of it, or in the event of a light strong enough to completely surround him, to the point that he is unable to cast a shadow. Since Simon Culp, the last known survivor of the 1838 event besides Shade himself, has now been killed, there appears to be no one left who is capable of draining his shadow.

Character inspiration

It is likely that The Shade's post-Zero Hour origin is influenced by Charles Dickens' story ''The Old Curiosity Shop'', which featured an English Rake also named Richard, and a dwarf named Quilp. In continuity, it is suggested that Shade's story instead inspired Dickens to write ''The Old Curiosity Shop''. James Robinson has stated that he drew some inspiration for the Shade's mannerisms and speech patterns from the British stage and screen actor Jonathan Pryce.

Other versions

On Earth-33, there is a magician called Shade, with all his powers. He is a member of the League of Shamans.

The Shade (possibly of Earth-3). An alternate version of the heroine Nightshade, she shares with him his namesake and all his powers, and she wears a top hat and a cane. She's killed by Eve of the Shadows, another Nightshade counterpart. The possibility exists that this Shade is actually a female version of Shade from the gender-reversed world Earth-11.

In other media

Television

The Shade first appeared in the two-part ''Justice League'' episode "Injustice For All" voiced by Stephen McHattie. In this version, his powers are a product of his staff, which he calls the "nightstick," much like that of his pre-Robinson years. In his first appearance, Star Sapphire remarks how he is "nothing" without his night stick, but by the time he joins Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society, he has learned martial arts and is able to hold his own in a confrontation against Batman. In the end though, he is no match for him. He is attracted to Giganta, who seems to return his affection. When he finds out that she had once been a gorilla he is shocked, but then looks at her and shrugs with a smile on his face. He first appears as a member of Lex Luthor's Injustice Gang. In "Fury" Shade appears as a member of Aresia's Injustice Gang. In "Secret Society" Shade is later recruited into Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society, although, by this time he is skeptical of its success due to seeing such efforts fail twice in the past. When Grodd's Secret Society is defeated by the Justice League in a football field in front of thousands of people, Shade states "I knew this wouldn't work" before attempting to flee and being stopped by Batman.

In the ''Justice League Unlimited'' series, Shade joins a fourth anti-Justice League organization, Gorilla Grodd's new Secret Society, later taken over by Lex Luthor. The Shade is prominently shown for the last time in the series in the episode "Alive", where he sides against Luthor during the mutiny led by Grodd. During the mutiny, Shade and the other villains that opposed Luthor, are frozen by a turncoat Killer Frost and ultimately killed when the resurrected Darkseid destroys the Society space station.

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Ron Husmann (born June 30, 1937) is an American actor.

Born in Rockford, Illinois, Husmann graduated from Northwestern University in 1959, and made his Broadway debut in ''Fiorello!'' later that year. In 1960 he was cast in ''Tenderloin'', garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and winning the Theatre World Award for his performance. Additional Broadway credits include ''All-American'', ''Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen'', ''On the Town'', ''Irene'', and ''Can-Can''.

Husmann made his film debut in the 1965 melodrama ''Love Has Many Faces'', but most of his screen credits have been limited to television. He has appeared in the daytime soaps ''General Hospital'' and ''Days of our Lives'', as well as such primetime series as ''Dr. Kildare'', ''Land of the Giants'', ''Get Smart'', ''The F.B.I.'', ''Archie Bunker's Place'', ''Cheers'', and the 1972 telecast of ''Once Upon a Mattress'' with Carol Burnett. He was also the announcer and straight man to Buddy Hackett in the short-lived revival of ''You Bet Your Life'' in 1980.

Husmann is the author, narrator, and co-producer of the ten-hour video series ''Broadway! A History of the Musical'' . He retired from performing after being stricken with multiple sclerosis .

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Name	Rose Marie
Birth name	Rose Marie Mazetta
Birth date	August 15, 1923
Birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1926–present
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Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.

A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, records, theater, night clubs, and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''. She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on CBS's ''The Doris Day Show'' and was also a frequent panelist on the game show ''Hollywood Squares''.

Early years

Rose Marie Mazetta was born in New York City, New York, to Italian-American Frank Mazzetta and Polish-American Stella Gluszcak. At the age of three, she started performing under the name "Baby Rose Marie." At five, Marie became a radio star on NBC and made a series of films.

Rose Marie in her teenage years was a nightclub performer before becoming a radio comedian. She was billed then as "The Darling of the Airwaves." According to her autobiography, ''Hold the Roses,'' she was assisted in her career by many members of the Mafia, including Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. She performed at the opening night of the Flamingo Hotel which was built by Siegel.

At her height of fame as a child singer (late 1929–1934), she had her own radio show, made numerous records, and was featured in a number of Paramount films and shorts. In 1929, the five- or six-year-old singer made a Vitaphone sound short titled "Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder," (now restored and available in the Warner Brothers DVD set of ''The Jazz Singer''). For her first recording session, in 1932, she was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. She continued to appear in films through the mid-1930s, making shorts and a feature, ''International House'' with W. C. Fields, for Paramount. Even as a ten-year-old in ''International House'', Rose Marie’s singing had a maturity that was remarkable. She could punctuate a phrase with a lusty growl that would be remarkable in a singer twice her age.

Television

In the 1960–1961 season, Rose Marie co-starred with Shirley Bonne, Elaine Stritch, Jack Weston, Raymond Bailey, and Stubby Kaye in the CBS sitcom ''My Sister Eileen''. She played Bertha, a friend of the Sherwood sisters, Ruth, a magazine writer, played by Stritch, and Eileen, an aspiring actress, Bonne's role.

After starring for all five seasons of ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (in the role originally played by Sylvia Miles in the pilot episode), Rose Marie co-starred on CBS's ''The Doris Day Show'' as Doris Martin's friend and co-worker, Myrna Gibbons. She later had a semi-regular seat in the upper center square on the original version of Peter Marshall's ''Hollywood Squares'', alongside her friend and longtime ''Van Dyke'' co-star, Morey Amsterdam.

In the early 1990s, she had a recurring role as Frank Fontana's mother on the CBS sitcom ''Murphy Brown''. She also played Roy Biggins's domineering mother, Eleanor "Bluto" Biggins in the TV series ''Wings''.

Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam guest-starred together in a February 1996 episode of the NBC sitcom ''Caroline in the City'', shortly before Amsterdam's death in October of that same year. She appeared with the surviving ''Dick Van Dyke Show'' cast members in a 2004 reunion special. Rose Marie was especially close to actor Richard Deacon from that show, and offered him the suits left behind when her husband died in 1964, as the two men were of similar height and build. She was married to trumpeter Bobby Guy from 1946 until his death in 1964.

She also appeared in two episodes of the NBC series ''The Monkees'' in the mid 1960s.

Theater

From 1977–81, she co-starred with Rosemary Clooney, Helen O'Connell and Margaret Whiting in the musical revue ''4 Girls 4'', which toured the U.S. and appeared on television several times. As of 2007, she continues to perform.

Filmography

Features

''International House'' (1933)

''Top Banana'' (1954)

''The Big Beat'' (1958)

''Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title'' (1966)

''Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round'' (1966)

''Memory of Us'' (1974)

''The Man from Clover Grove'' (1975)

''Bruce's Deadly Fingers'' (1976)

''Cheaper to Keep Her'' (1980)

''Lunch Wagon'' (1981)

''Witchboard'' (1986)

''Sandman'' (1993)

''Lost & Found'' (1999)

''Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth'' (2000)

''Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes'' (2004)

Short subjects

''Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder'' (1929)

''Rambling 'Round Radio Row #4'' (1932)

''Back in '23'' (1933)

''Sing, Babies, Sing'' (1933)

''Rambling 'Round Radio Row'' (1934)

''At the Mike'' (1934)

''Surprising Suzie'' (1953)

Television work

''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' (1960)

''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1961–1966)

''The Hollywood Squares'' (1966–1981) (regular panelist)

''Walter of the Jungle'' (1967) (unsold pilot)

''The Virginian'' (1967)

''The Doris Day Show'' (cast member from 1969–1971)

''S.W.A.T.'' (1975) (multiple cameos as Hilda, the sandwich delivery lady)

''Bridge Across Time'' (1985)

''Remington Steele'' (1986) (Series 4 Episode 17 - Steele in the Spotlight)

''The Jackie Bison Show'' (1990) (unsold pilot) (voice)

''Scorch'' (1992) (canceled after 3 episodes)

''Hardball'' (1994) (canceled after 7 episodes)

''Cagney & Lacey: Together Again'' (1995)

''Wings'' (1997)

''Suddenly Susan'' (1997)

''The Hughleys'' (2001)

''Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales'' (2003)

''The Alan Brady Show'' (2003) (voice)

''The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited'' (2004)

References

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An interview with Rose Marie, March 2011

Rose Marie Interview with Archive of American Television

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Coordinates	35°0′41.69″N135°46′5.47″N
name	Pam Dawber
birth date	October 18, 1951
birth place	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
occupation	Actress
yearsactive	1978–1999
spouse	Mark Harmon (1987–present) }}

Pam Dawber (born October 18, 1951) is an American actress, known for her title roles as Mindy McConnell in the 1978–82 sitcom ''Mork & Mindy'' and as Samantha Russell in ''My Sister Sam'' (1986–88).

Life and career

Dawber was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Thelma M. (née Fisher) and Eugene E. Dawber, a commercial artist. She attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College. She began her career as a fashion model with Wilhelmina Models and went on to a career as an actress. From 1978 to 1982, she played one of the title roles in the ABC sitcom ''Mork & Mindy'': Mindy McConnell, the comedic foil and eventual love interest for the extraterrestrial Mork from the planet "Ork", played by Robin Williams. The show was extremely popular in its debut season, when it averaged at #3 in the Nielsen ratings for the year.

Dawber sang in a 1980s Los Angeles Civic Light Opera production of Gilbert & Sullivan's ''The Pirates of Penzance'', based on the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival production. Her role, as Mabel, had been played by Linda Ronstadt in the New York run of the show.

From 1986 to 1988, Dawber again had the title role in a TV series, playing Samantha Russell in the CBS sitcom ''My Sister Sam'', co-starring Rebecca Schaeffer. The series was a success in its first season, but suffered a massive ratings drop in its second after moving to Saturday night. ''My Sister Sam'' left the air in April 1988, with half of the second season's episodes never airing on CBS, but eventually airing (along with all previous episodes) on USA Network. In July 1989, over a year after the show's demise, Schaeffer was shot and killed by an obsessed fan in front of her apartment, which devastated Dawber.

Dawber parodied her ''Mork & Mindy'' character in the 1992 movie ''Stay Tuned'', in which she co-starred with John Ritter, who parodied his ''Three's Company'' role.

Dawber is a national spokeswoman for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Personal life

She has been married to actor Mark Harmon since March 21, 1987. The couple appeared together in the film ''I'll Remember April'', and have two sons: Sean Thomas Harmon (born April 25, 1988) and Ty Christian Harmon (born June 25, 1992).

Films and TV movies

''A Wedding'' (1978) - Tracy Farrell

''The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything'' (1980) - Bonny Lee Beaumont

''Remembrance of Love'' (1982) - Marcy Rabin

''Through Naked Eyes'' (1983) - Anne Walsh

''Last of the Great Survivors'' (1984) - Laura Matthews

Faerie Tale Theatre: ''The Little Mermaid''

''This Wife for Hire'' (1985) - Marsha Harper

''Wild Horses'' (1985) - Daryl Reese

''American Geisha'' (1986) - Gillian Burke

''Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story'' (1988) - Lucy Wedemeyer

''Do You Know the Muffin Man?'' (1989) - Kendra Dollison

''The Face of Fear'' (1990) - Connie Weaver

''Stay Tuned'' (1992) - Helen Knable

''The Man with Three Wives'' (1993) - Robyn

''Web of Deception'' (1994) - Ellen Benesch

''A Child's Cry for Help'' (1994) - Monica Shaw

''A Stranger to Love'' (1995) - Andie

''Trail of Tears'' (1999) - Cheryl Harris

''I'll Remember April'' (1999) - Barbara Cooper

''Don't Look Behind You'' (1999) - Liz Corrigan

''Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars'' documentary (2006)

Television series

''Mork & Mindy'' (1978–82) - Mindy McConnell

''My Sister Sam'' (1986–88) - Samantha 'Sam' Russell

''Life... and Stuff'' (1997) - Ronnie Boswell

She also played the part of a secretary named Karen Billings in episode 13b of the first season of ''The New Twilight Zone'' called "But Can She Type?"

Voice

''Swan Lake'' (1981) - Princess Odette

''The Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz Show'' (TV Series) (1982) - Mindy McConnell

''Nick and Noel'' (1993) (TV) - Leslie

''The Bears Who Saved Christmas'' (TV) (1994) - Mom

''101 Dalmatians: The Series'' (TV Series) (1997) - Perdy

References

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