ROSEMARY CLOONEY
Dysfunctional families may not be necessary in the show business world, yet being born into one seems to have fed many a person's drive to succeed. Rosemary Clooney, in various interviews over the years, claimed to be from one such family. Andrew Clooney prioritized alcoholic beverage over raising his children; his wife, Frances, also had little time for her eldest daughter (born Rose Mary in 1928 in Maysville, Kentucky, a small town about 60 miles southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio), sister Betty (who came three years later) and brother Nick (three years after that). Growing up mostly with grandparents, uncles and aunts, the three siblings (not to mention several half-sisters, step-brothers and what have you) seldom found themselves under one roof ... MORE ››
