| ROSEMARY
CLOONEY TIMELINE
- 5.23.1928
Born in Maysville, Kentucky
- 4.12.1931
Sister Betty was born
- 1.13.1934
Brother Nick was born
- 1941
Moves from Maysville to Cincinnati
- 2.9.1945
Little Sister Gail Stone is born
 1945
Begins singing with Sister Betty at
Cincinnati’s radio station WLW- 1946
Clooney Sisters sing with Barney Rapp’s
band at Castle Farms & Netherland
Plaza
- 1946
Clooney Sisters go on the road with
Tony Pastor’s band, Uncle George chaperones
- 6.5.1947
Records I’m Sorry I Didn’t Say I’m Sorry
When I Made You Cry last Night
- Summers
of 1947 and 1948 Nick goes on the road
with his sisters and the band
- 2.1948
Appears on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,
also on show is Tony Bennett
- 3.1949
Records last time with The Clooney Sisters
and Tony Pastor’s Band
- 5.1949
Betty returns to Cincinnati
- 5.24.1949
Signs contract with Columbia Records
- 1949
Appears on Ed Sullivan’s show
- 4.1950
Records Peachtree Street with Frank
Sinatra
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- 1950
Appears on Songs for Sale with Tony
Bennett
- 1950
Appears on the radio program The Bob
Hope Show
- 7.1950
Appears on radio’s Steppin Out with
Tony Bennett
- 1.1951
Records Beautiful Brown Eyes
- 1951
Come On-A My House is released
- 1952
Films The Stars Are Singing, Here Come
the Girls and Red Garters
- 1952
-1954 Records numerous radio shows with
Bing Crosby
- 1952
Appears on Bob Hope’s television show
- 1952
Falls in love with dancer and co-star
Dante DiPaolo
- 1.1953
First movie The Stars Are Singing premiere’s
at Maysville’s Russell Theatre
- 2.23.1953
Appears on the cover of Time magazine
 
- 7.13.1953
Marries Jose Ferrer
- 8-12.1953
Films White Christmas which is top grossing
film of 1954
- 1953
Little Sister Gail comes to live with
Jose and Rosemary
- 1954
Appears in Deep In My Heart with husband
Jose Ferrer
- 2.7.1955
Son Miguel Jose is born
- 1955
Mother comes to help take care of the
household and children
- 1956
-1958 Stars in two seasons of her own
variety show
- 1956
Daughter Maria Providencia is born
- 1957
Son Gabriel Vicente is born
- 10.13.1957
Tapes The Edsel Show with Bing, Frank,
and Louis Armstrong
- 2.5.1958
Bing Crosby is named as Gabriel’s God-father
- 7-8.1958
Records Fancy Meeting You Here with
Bing Crosby and Billy May
- 1958
Billy Strayhorn shepherds the recording
of Blue Rose with Duke Ellington
- 10.1958
Daughter Monsita Theresa is born
 
- 3.23.1960
Son Rafael Francisco is born
- 1960-1962
Co-hosts a radio show with Bing Crosby
that is taped in her living room
- 1961
Nephew George Clooney is born
- 1962
Files for divorce
- 1962
Performs for President Kennedy
- 1963
Reconciles with Jose
- 1964
Records That Travelin Two Beat with
Bing Crosby
- 1966
Guests on an episode of the Hollywood
Palace
- 1967
Divorces Jose Ferrer
- 6.1968
Witnesses the assassination of Robert
F. Kennedy
- 1968
Suffers a nervous breakdown and spends
time in psychiatric ward
- 1973
Reconnects with Dante DiPaolo at a redlight
on Little Santa Monica Boulevard
- 8.1976
Sister Betty dies from a brain aneurysm
- 1976
Invited to join Bing Crosby on his 50th
anniversary tour
- 1977
Signs with Concord Records - releases
first of 25 records for the label
- 1977
Pens her first autobiography This for
Remembrance
 10.14.1977
Her dear friend Bing Crosby dies of
a heart attack on a golf course in Spain
- 1977-1989
Performs in variations of the show “4
Girls 4”
- 1980
Purchases the Riverside Drive home in
Augusta (it was built circa 1830)
- 1980
First grandchild Jordan Ferrer is born
- 80s
Serves as spokesperson for Coronet paper
products “extra value is what you get...”
- 1982
CBS Movie based on her book airs starring
Sandra Locke and Tony Orlando
- 1984
the first of her annual appearances
at Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow &
Stars
- 1984
First Singers Salute to Songwriters
to benefit the Betty Clooney Foundation
- 1987
Rosemary acts in tv movie Sister Margaret
and the Saturday Night Ladies
 11.23.1987
Performs for 2nd time in Royal Variety
Performance for Queen Elizabeth - 5.1988
Celebrates her 60th birthday at Nick’s
party house in Augusta
- 1991
Appears at Carnegie Hall for the first
time
- 1.26.1992
Jose Ferrer dies
- 1993
performs for President and Mrs. Clinton
at the Whitehouse
- 11.1994
Rides Macy’s Day Parade on AMC’s “White
Christmas” float w/ brother Nick
- 1996
is nominated for an Emmy for guest appearance
with nephew George on ER
 11.7.1997
Marries long-time love Dante DiPaolo
at St. Patrick’s in Maysville- 1999
Publishes second autobiography entitled
Girl Singer
- 9.1999
Performs at the First Annual Rosemary
Clooney Music Festival in Maysville
- 10.1999
Opens Michael Feinstein’s new cabaret
in NYC
- 12.1.1999
Sings at lighting of tree in NYC shares
stage w/ Miss America Heather French
- 9.15.2001
4 days after 9/11 does concert in Evansville,
sings God Bless America
 11.16.2001
Performs with Honolulu Symphony, concert
will be her last recording- 12.15.2001
Performs last concert at Count Basie
Theatre in Red Bank, NJ
- 1.11.2002
Has lung cancer surgery at Mayo Clinic
- 2.27.2002
Awarded Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement
Award
- 5.2002
Released from the hospital and returns
to 1019 Roxbury Drive
- 6.2002
Is told cancer has returned
- 6.29.2002
Is called home to heaven
- 7.5.2002
Is laid to rest near her family in St.
Patrick’s cemetery in Maysville, KY
- 10.1.2005
The Rosemary Clooney House holds its
Grand Opening
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