When she hit her teens, Rose Marie, like many child acts, "retired". In her case, she attended a convent school in New Jersey. By the early 1940s, the now mature singer re-emerged as 'Miss Rose Marie' but found it difficult to recapture her earlier success. She spent much of the 1940s on the nightclub circuit but after her marriage and the birth of her daughter, Rose Marie tired of the traveling. She demonstrated her thespian abilities in a series of guest appearances on TV dramas which led to an occasional movie role. Rose Marie acted in films like "Top Banana" (1954), "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" (1966) and "Lunch Wagon" (1980), but she logged far more time on the small screen. In addition to "The Dick Van Dyke Show", she was a regular on "My Sister Eileen" (CBS, 1960-61), "The Doris Day Show" (CBS, 1969-1971), and played Mitzi Balzer, the sharp-tongued owner of the Pioneers baseball team, in Fox's short-lived sitcom "Hardball" (1994). Many people remember her as a celebrity panelist on NBC's long-running daytime "Hollywood Squares" (1966-80), and she made countless guest appearances on popular series throughout the years, most recently on "Wings" (1996) and "Suddenly Susan" (1997). The "Vaudeville" episode of "American Masters" (PBS, 1997) featured Rose Marie and fellow vaudevillians June Havoc, Bobby Short, Morey Amsterdam and the Nicholas Brothers among the interviewees.