Wait for Your Laugh (2017)

My first exposure to Rose Marie was watching Match Game reruns. Having never watched The Dick Van Dyke Show, I wasn’t even aware she was part of the cast. It was only in recent years that I saw a bit of her singing as Baby Rose Marie and was completely surprised to discover they were one and the same person. I’m glad that they were able to make this film before she passed on because her nine decades long career spans so many aspects of show business from radio to television to stage to film. As a biopic, it stays mainly on the glossier side of things, only lightly addressing the child exploitation and mob tie aspects of her career, but it’s great to see interviews from so many nonagenarian performers, such as Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Rose Marie herself.