Roxanne Rosedale, the model and actress who served as Bud Collyer‘s glamorous assistant on the 1950s game show Beat the Clock, has died. She was 95. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, she passed away on Thursday, May 2, in an assisted care facility in her birthplace of Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to her daughter, Ann Roddy. Born on March 20, 1929, as Dolores Rosedale, the game show star was better known professionally as Roxanne. Before her show business career, she studied fashion design at the Minneapolis School of Art and was a member of the Minneapolis Models Guild. After finishing second in the Miss Minneapolis beauty pageant in 1947, Roxanne moved to New York, signing with the Harry Conover modeling agency and studying with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio. The Everett Collection She made her television debut in 1948 on the short-lived CBS game show Winner Take All, which Collyer also hosted. The show was canceled after two seasons,...
- 5/16/2024
- TV Insider
Roxanne Rosedale, the glamorous model and actress who assisted host Bud Collyer on the 1950s game show Beat the Clock and appeared in the Marilyn Monroe-starring The Seven Year Itch, has died. She was 95.
Known professionally as Roxanne, she died May 2 in an assisted care facility in her birthplace of Minneapolis, her daughter Ann Roddy told The Hollywood Reporter.
Roxanne became a hugely popular TV star after she joined CBS’ Beat the Clock, from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, in 1950. She would introduce the contestants — who were tasked with completing complicated, outrageous stunts in an allotted time — snapped photos with a Sylvania camera and posed alongside the winners’ prizes. (Watch an episode here.)
While on the show, she made the covers of such magazines as Life, Look and (with Collyer) TV Guide and even had a doll named for her. The blue-eyed Roxanne Dolls featured a Beat the Clock...
Known professionally as Roxanne, she died May 2 in an assisted care facility in her birthplace of Minneapolis, her daughter Ann Roddy told The Hollywood Reporter.
Roxanne became a hugely popular TV star after she joined CBS’ Beat the Clock, from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, in 1950. She would introduce the contestants — who were tasked with completing complicated, outrageous stunts in an allotted time — snapped photos with a Sylvania camera and posed alongside the winners’ prizes. (Watch an episode here.)
While on the show, she made the covers of such magazines as Life, Look and (with Collyer) TV Guide and even had a doll named for her. The blue-eyed Roxanne Dolls featured a Beat the Clock...
- 5/15/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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