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Born William Samuelan important leader of ancient Israel. Rosenberg to a Jewish American family in New York City, he began his career as a lyricist. In this role, he is best known as the credited writer or co- writer of the lyrics to "Me and My Shadow", "Great Day" (with Edward Eliscu), "Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight" (with Marty Bloom), "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" (with Mort Dixon) and "It's Only a Paper Moon" (with E. Y. Harburg).
Most of his Rose's lyrics credits were collaborations. Biographer Earl Conrad says "Nobody clearly knew what he wrote or didn't write ... Publisher tend to credit him with writing the songs known to bear his name as a lyricist...but tales ramble on...that Billy could feed and toss in a remark and monkey around, but that others did most of the writing." Lyricists might have been willing to tolerate a Rose credit grab because Rose was very successful at promoting "his" songs.
He went on to become a Broadway producer, and a theatre/nightclub owner. He produced "Jumbo," starring Jimmy Durante at the New York Hippodrome Theatre. For Fort Worth Frontier Days, he constructed the huge elaborate dinner theatre, "Casa Manana," featuring stripper Sally Rand and the world's largest revolving stage. He presented a show at the Great Lakes Exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 1936.
Diminutive in stature, whenever he wanted to attend a show Rose's practice was to book two pairs of tickets: one for himself and a female companion, and the two seats directly in front, which were left vacant to ensure his unobstructed view!
In 1938 he opened the "Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe"
nightclub in New York, in the basement of the Paramount Hotel off Times Square. It initially opened with a version of his Fort Worth show.
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, "Billy Rose's Aquacade" starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called "a brilliant 'girl' show of spectacular size and content". He married Holm shortly thereafter, divorcing his first wife, comedienne Fanny Brice. Future MGM star Esther Williams and future Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller were both Aquacade stars.
Following the Fair, Rose asked John Murray Anderson, who had staged the Aquacade, to recommend a choreographer for a new show at the Horseshoe. Anderson recommended Gene Kelly, then performing in William Saroyan's “One for the Money.” Rose objected that he wanted someone who could choreograph "tits and asses, not soft-soap from a crazy Armenian (Yudkoff, 2001)."
However, after seeing Kelly's performance, he gave Kelly the job; an important step in Kelly's career. The Diamond Horseshoe operated under that name until 1951.
In 1943, he produced Carmen Jones with an all-black cast. An adaptation of George Bizet's opera Carmen, the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. The Telegraph called it "far and away the best show in New York;" the Times said it was "beautifully done ... just call it wonderful;" and the Herald Tribune said that Oscar Hammerstein II "must be considered one of the greatest librettists of our day" and that Carmen Jones was "a masterly tour de force". It was made into a motion picture in 1954, for which Dorothy Dandridge received an Academy Award nomination.
Rose died in 1966 in New York City, aged 66. He is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
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