Dorothy Malone

. For the 1924 musical, see Rose-Marie. Malone was married and divorced three times and has two daughters from her first marriage. After appearing for many years on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rose Marie had a semi-regular seat on the 1970s version of Hollywood Squares. Her last notable screen appearance was as a mother convicted of murdering her family in Basic Instinct (1992), with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. At five she became a radio star on NBC, made a series of films and, as a teenager, became a nightclub peformer before becoming a comedienne. Malone became a household name when she accepted the lead role of Constance MacKenzie Carson on the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, on which she starred from 1964 through 1968. Born Rose Marie Mazetta in New York City she became a performer at the age of three.

As a result, she was offered meatier roles in better films, including Man of a Thousand Faces (with James Cagney), Tarnished Angels (again with Hudson and Stack, again directed by Sirk), and The Last Voyage (with Stack). Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an actress who had a career as a child star under the name Baby Rose Marie but is best known for her adult role as Sally Rogers in the The Dick Van Dyke Show. Her portrayal of the dipso-nymphomaniac daughter of a Texas oil baron won her the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress. In 1956, Malone dyed her hair blonde to co-star with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, and Robert Stack in director Douglas Sirk's melodrama, Written on the Wind. Much of her early career was spent in supporting roles in Grade-B Westerns, although on occasion she had the opportunity to play small but memorable roles, such as that of the young, brainy, lusty, bespectacled bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep, with Humphrey Bogart, in 1946.

She was born as Dorothy Eloise Maloney on January 30, 1925. Dorothy Malone is an American actress.