TV's First Game Show Model Star Dies at 95

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Mark Jeffries

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May 16, 2024, 4:26:32 PM5/16/24
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Long before Vanna, there was Dolores Roxanne Rosedale (who went only by her middle name), who appeared every Saturday night on the original CBS version of "Beat the Clock," snapping  a photo of the couples in the aftermath of the more gungy stunts with her camera loaded with the sponsor's Sylvania Blue Dot flashbulbs ("Blue Dot for sure shots")--at one point a doll was made of her and was given away by host Bud Collyer if the couples had brought their kids with them--she left the show in 1955 to have a baby and pursue an acting career, which at its height included appearing with Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven-Year Itch," but eventually went to parenthood full-time--she died May 2 in her birthplace of Minneapolis:

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