"Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder" is an 8-minute black-and-white sound film from 1929, so this one will soon have its 90th anniversary. The title already gives it away. We see child star Rose Marie at the age of 5 or 6 perform a song from start to finish. Marie (now a three-time Emmy nominee with a star on the Walk of Fame) is still alive today way into her 90s and still not yet completely retired, even if her screen performances are a rarity these days. The director is Bryan Foy, who became an Oscar nominee over two decades after this short film here was made. Okay, anyway I guess Marie is not bad here, but the term "child wonder" is definitely a huge exaggeration and this also makes me worry about how much she wanted to do it and how much she was pushed here by producers or maybe even her parents. Only she will know, I guess. In any case, I really see nothing special at all in what is probably Rose Marie's screen performance. I just hope they did not use stories I have heard were used to cause harm to other child stars back in the 1920s and 1930s. I don't recommend the watch.
