Hold the Roses

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Summary: Highly Recommend this Page Turner!
Review: From beginning to end this is one of those books that is difficult to put down. It was great to learn about Rose Marie's life and career before and after she played the part she is best known for (to me anyway), "Sally Rogers" on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". The love story between her and her beloved husband was magical and could she be any more proud of her daughter?! Reading and learning about the various celebrities (including the notorious ones) with whom she worked and was acquainted was quite interesting. Like some others have mentioned, I would have liked to read more about her time with the DVD show, but maybe she will favor us with a second book based on that experience!

Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommend this Page Turner!
Review: From beginning to end this is one of those books that is difficult to put down. It was great to learn about Rose Marie's life and career before and after she played the part she is best known for (to me anyway), "Sally Rogers" on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". The love story between her and her beloved husband was magical and could she be any more proud of her daughter?! Reading and learning about the various celebrities (including the notorious ones) with whom she worked and was acquainted was quite interesting. Like some others have mentioned, I would have liked to read more about her time with the DVD show, but maybe she will favor us with a second book based on that experience!

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Summary: Couldn't put this book down!
Review: I am an avid biography/autobiography reader. This book was a delight to read. Rose Marie tells about the many aspects of her life. Her childhood and her years as a nightclub singer were especially interesting. This book is a must for any Dick Van Dyke Show fan. I wish this book would be more heavily promoted and available to readers. It's the best autobiography I've read in a long time.

Rating:
Summary: Couldn't put this book down!
Review: I am an avid biography/autobiography reader. This book was a delight to read. Rose Marie tells about the many aspects of her life. Her childhood and her years as a nightclub singer were especially interesting. This book is a must for any Dick Van Dyke Show fan. I wish this book would be more heavily promoted and available to readers. It's the best autobiography I've read in a long time.

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Summary: Our Beautiful Rose Marie
Review: I am in love with Rose Marie, yet I had no idea what a long and fascinating career she had before the Dick Van Dyke Show. This book outlines her wonderful life as a child star, her life on the road and so many other things you never knew she was involved in. We knew her as a television icon. Now I've seen her as a life-long star in her own right! It's a great look at Hollywood growing up.

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Summary: Our Beautiful Rose Marie
Review: I am in love with Rose Marie, yet I had no idea what a long and fascinating career she had before the Dick Van Dyke Show. This book outlines her wonderful life as a child star, her life on the road and so many other things you never knew she was involved in. We knew her as a television icon. Now I've seen her as a life-long star in her own right! It's a great look at Hollywood growing up.

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Summary: Great Stories from a Class Act
Review: I cannot give this book 5 stars as towards the end of the book I was beginning to get very bored.Now that I think back from the start- she had the habit of referring to herself as the one who
was Super Woman.I really don't see how she had the time to do everything she claims to have done with this script and that arrangement.If she was trying to make the reader feel sorry for her she succeeded in the beginning. Seems the book went down hill in telling her story after her husband died-a shame it could have been a great book had she left out the names dropping etc.

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Summary: I couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end
Review: I read a lot of autobiographies, and "Hold the Roses" is one of the most candid and well written I've read. Rose Marie has not only lived a very interesting life; she's written a very entertaining book. I knew her as part of the sentence "I'll take Rose Marie to block" from her regular appearances on Hollywood Squares. I knew she had been on "The Dick van Dyke Show" and knew very little else about her. I didn't know about Baby Rose Marie, the little girl born out of wedlock who became a star on radio and in vaudeville; whose father didn't marry her mother but supported his "real family" by managing her career until he tried to have her killed. She did more than rub elbows with the famous and infamous of her day. And as interesting as her show business recollections are, the book recounts a love story that is both funny and touching. Rose Marie has had an incredible career. And she's topped it off by writing a wonderful book. I'm so glad I read it.

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Summary: Semi-enjoyable
Review: Interesting book for the most part although more time should have been spent about "The Dick Van Dyke Show". I was very disappointed with the way she ended the book however. To keep everyone guessing about the black bow and then to say it is a secret is disgraceful.

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Summary: Great stuff
Review: Rose Marie sounds like a really nice person and realized a happy marriage and successful grown daughter were the most important things in life. Yet, her book goes into boring detail about every show, every person she ever met, every crowd reaction. It got so repetetive. And the section on Dick Van Dyke show was the part I was looking forward to and she mostly talked about going out to dinner after the show. She didn't even mention Jerry Paris and hardly Morey Amerserdam. A lot of eating and shows and name-dropping. I skipped over most of it and pretty much got the feeling she loved show business and a good time partying. Makes me glad I never had the show business bug because it sure overwhelms your life.