Editing Rosemary Clooney (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Ken Murray Rosemary Clooney Lux Show 1957.JPG|thumb|left|With [[Ken Murray (entertainer)|Ken Murray]] on ''The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney'' (1957)]]
Clooney was married twice to Puerto Rican movie star [[José Ferrer]], 16 years her senior. Clooney first married Ferrer on July 13, 1953, in [[Durant, Oklahoma]].<ref name="songsters176">{{cite book |title=Hollywood Songsters |last=Parish |first=James Robert |author2=Michael R. Pitts|year=1991 |publisher=Garland |location=New York |isbn=0-415-94332-9 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GlybVaD6cakC}}</ref> They moved to [[Santa Monica, California]], in 1954, and then to [[Los Angeles]] in 1958. Together, the couple had five children; son [[Miguel Ferrer]] also became an actor. Clooney and Ferrer divorced for the first time in 1961.

Clooney remarried Ferrer on November 22, 1964, in Los Angeles. However, the marriage again crumbled while Ferrer was carrying on an affair with the woman who would become his last wife, Stella Magee. The couple divorced again after she found out about the affair, this time in 1967.

In 1968, her relationship with a drummer ended after two years. At this time, following a tour, she became increasingly dependent on tranquilizers and sleeping pills.<ref name="songsters176"/>

[[File:Rosemary Clooney 1997.jpg|thumb|Clooney in 1997]]
She joined the [[1968 United States presidential election|presidential campaign]] of close friend [[Robert F. Kennedy]], and heard the shots when he was [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy|assassinated]] on June 5, 1968.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=bl8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78 ''Los Angeles Magazine'' June 1998] 158 pages Vol. 43, No. 6 page 78 ISSN 1522-9149 Published by Emmis Communications</ref> A month later, she had a [[nervous breakdown]] onstage in [[Reno, Nevada]], where she began shouting insults at her audience. She was hospitalized and remained in [[psychoanalytic therapy]] for eight years.<ref>Parish and Pitts (1991), p. 177</ref>

Her sister Betty died suddenly of a [[brain aneurysm]] in 1976. She subsequently started a foundation in memory of and named for her sister. During this time, she also wrote her first autobiography, ''This for Remembrance: The Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer'', written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by [[Playboy Enterprises|Playboy Press]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |last= Clooney |first= Rosemary |author2= Raymond Strait |title= This for remembrance : the autobiography of Rosemary Clooney |publisher= [[Playboy Press]] |year= 1977 |isbn= 0-671-16976-9 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/thisforremembran00cloo }}</ref> She chronicled her unhappy early life, her career as a singer, her marriage to Ferrer, her mental breakdown in 1968, and the diagnosis of [[bipolar disorder]] that seriously disrupted her career, concluding with her comeback as a singer and her happiness. Her good friend Bing Crosby wrote the introduction. Katherine Coker adapted the book for [[Jackie Cooper]], who produced and directed the television movie, ''Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story'' (1982) starring [[Sondra Locke]] (who lip synced Clooney's songs), [[Penelope Milford]] as Betty, and [[Tony Orlando]] as José Ferrer. The 1944-born Locke was 38 at the time, just 16 years Clooney's junior, yet playing her from 17 to 40. Orlando and Locke were the same age, though the real Ferrer was 16 years older than Clooney.

In 1983, Rosemary and her brother Nick co-chaired the Betty Clooney Foundation for the Brain-Injured, addressing the needs of survivors of cognitive disabilities caused by [[stroke]]s, [[tumor]]s, and [[brain damage]] from trauma or age.

In 1997, she married her longtime friend and a former dancer, [[Dante DiPaolo]] at St. Patrick's Church in Maysville, Kentucky.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://enquirer.com/editions/1997/11/08/loc_clooney.html|title=Town stands up at Clooney wedding|date=November 8, 1997|work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stevenlewis.info/crosby/clooney.htm|title=Rosemary Clooney marries Dante DiPaolo 1997 -- Bing Crosby Internet Museum -- www.stevenlewis.info|website=stevenlewis.info|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref>

In 1999, Clooney published her second autobiography, ''Girl Singer: An Autobiography'', describing her battles with addiction to [[prescription drug]]s for [[major depressive disorder|depression]], and how she lost and then regained a fortune.<ref>{{cite book |last= Clooney |first= Rosemary |author2=Joan Barthel|title= Girl singer: an autobiography |publisher= [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year= 1999 |isbn= 0-385-49334-7}}</ref> "I'd call myself a sweet singer with a big band sensibility," she wrote.

===Lung cancer and death===
A longtime heavy smoker, Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starsneverfade.com/rosie.htm|title=Rosie|publisher=starsneverfade.com|access-date=May 3, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912193017/http://www.starsneverfade.com/rosie.htm|archive-date=September 12, 2012}}</ref> She died in 2002 at age 74 at her [[Beverly Hills]] home from complications of cancer.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/arts/rosemary-clooney-legendary-pop-singer-dies-at-74.html | title=Rosemary Clooney, Legendary Pop Singer, Dies at 74 | work=The New York Times | date=July 2002 | last1=Severo | first1=Richard }}</ref>

===Legacy===
[[File:Rosemary Clooneys home in Augusta.jpg|thumb|right|Rosemary Clooney's Riverside Home, Augusta, Kentucky]]

Clooney lived for many years in Beverly Hills, California, in the house formerly owned by [[George Gershwin|George]] and [[Ira Gershwin]] at 1019 North Roxbury Drive. It was sold to a developer after her death in 2002, and has since been demolished. In 1980, she purchased a second home on Riverside Drive in [[Augusta, Kentucky]], near Maysville, her childhood hometown. Today, the Augusta house serves as a [[historic house museum]], allowing visitors to view collections of her personal items and memorabilia from many of her films and singing performances.  Clooney also maintained an apartment in the early 1960s at the Winslow Hotel on Madison Avenue (now demolished).{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}} 

In 2003, Rosemary Clooney was inducted into the [[Kentucky Women Remembered]] exhibit, and her portrait by Alison Lyne is on permanent display in the [[Kentucky State Capitol]]'s rotunda.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lyneart.com/KYWOMEN3.HTM |title=Lyne Kentucky Women Remembered 2003 |publisher=Alison Davis Lyne |website=lyneart.com |access-date=December 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131214035548/http://www.lyneart.com/KYWOMEN3.HTM |archive-date=December 14, 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

Also in 2003, [[Bette Midler]], after many years apart, rejoined forces with Barry Manilow to record ''[[Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook]]''. The album was an instant success, being certified gold by [[Recording Industry Association of America]]. One of the songbook selections, "This Ole House", became Midler's first [[Christian radio]] single shipped by Rick Hendrix and his positive music movement. The album was nominated for a [[Grammy Award|Grammy]] the following year.{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}} 

In 2005, the album ''[[Reflections of Rosemary]]'' by [[Debby Boone]] was released. Boone, who was Clooney's daughter-in-law, intended the album to be a musical portrait of Clooney, or as Boone put it: "I wanted to select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective".<ref name="clooney">{{cite web|url=http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/debbyboone/|title=Debby Boone's Reflections of Rosemary|publisher=rosemaryclooney.com|access-date=November 28, 2011}}</ref>

In September 2007, a mural honoring moments from her life was painted in downtown Maysville; it highlights the 1953 premiere of ''The Stars Are Singing'' and her singing career. It was painted by [[Louisiana]] muralists [[Robert Dafford]], [[Herb Roe]], and Brett Chigoy as part of the [[Maysville, Kentucky#Maysville Murals|Maysville Floodwall Murals]] project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofmaysville.com/tourism/floodwall%20murals.html |title=Maysville Floodwall Mural Project |access-date=March 28, 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228085421/http://www.cityofmaysville.com/tourism/floodwall%20murals.html |archive-date=February 28, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6QT6_Rosemary_Clooney_Mural_Maysville_KY|title=Rosemary Clooney Mural – Maysville, KY|access-date=March 23, 2010}}</ref> Her brother Nick Clooney spoke during the dedication for the mural, explaining various images to the crowd.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Pointer Sisters make excitement in Maysville|author=Misty Maynard|date=September 30, 2007|work=The Ledger Independent|url=http://www.maysville-online.com/news/article_17addc6d-dc69-5e93-b561-4e68fc3a217e.html|access-date=March 31, 2010|archive-date=January 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115102641/http://www.maysville-online.com/news/article_17addc6d-dc69-5e93-b561-4e68fc3a217e.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>