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Billy Rose

AKA William Samuel Rosenberg

Born: 6-Sep-1899
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 10-Feb-1966
Location of death: Montego Bay, Jamaica
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Remains: Buried, Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Theatre Producer

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Ziegfeld Theatre, Billy Rose Theater

Syndicated column, Pitching Horseshoes, published 1946-53.

Wife: Fanny Brice (m. 8-Feb-1929, div. 1938)
Wife: Eleanor Holm (m. 1939, div. 1954)
Wife: Joyce Mathews (ex-wife of Milton Berle, m. 2-Jun-1956, div.)
Wife: Doris Warner Vidor (m. 3-Mar-1964, div.)
Wife: Joyce Mathews (m. again 1965, until his death)

    High School: High School of Commerce, New York, NY

    Songwriters Hall of Fame 1970

Author of books:
Wine, Women and Words (1948)






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