Marie Osmond
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| Years active | 1973—Present |
| Genre(s) | Country |
| Label(s) | Curb |
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Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American entertainer and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds.
The only daughter of George and Olive Osmond and the eighth of their nine children, Marie has released many albums and appeared on television for over 40 years. When she was just 13 years old, her song "Paper Roses" reached #1 on the country music charts, making her the youngest female artist in history to top the chart. She has charted with her brother Donny ("I'm Leaving It All Up To You" and "Deep Purple"), Dan Seals ("Meet Me In Montana", also a country #1), and Paul Davis ("You're Still New To Me"). Other solo hits include "This Is The Way That I Feel," "There's No Stopping Your Heart", "Read My Lips", and "I Only Wanted You". She and Donny also had a hit variety show, Donny & Marie, which ran on ABC from (1976 to 1979). In 1981, she had a solo variety series on NBC, simply called Marie.
Marie played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side By Side: The True Story Of The Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movies The Gift Of Love and I Married Wyatt Earp. She garnered rave reviews in the Broadway musicals The King and I (as Anna) and The Sound of Music (as Maria) in the mid-1990s. She returned to television first in the short lived 1995 ABC sitcom Maybe This Time and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host Donny And Marie, a talk/entertainment show that lasted just two seasons.
She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside The Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multimedia empire led to their downfall. The film was produced by her younger brother Jimmy Osmond.
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[edit] Personal life
Marie's first engagement, to actor and singer Jeff Crayton, was announced in June of 1979, but abruptly called off in August of that same year. She now has eight children: one son with her first husband (Steve Craig), two children with her second husband, and five adopted children.
Perhaps the only dent in her squeaky-clean image is her divorce from her first husband after two years of marriage in 1985. Her religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, discourages divorce. She married her second husband, Brian Blosil, on October 28, 1986.
In October 1999, she disclosed that she suffered from severe postpartum depression, following the birth of her son. She became so despondent that she left her family, and planned never to return. She eventually returned to her family, and shared her postpartum experiences with other women. In 2005, Marie spoke out in support of Brooke Shields, after Tom Cruise attacked Brooke's use of pharmaceuticals to treat her postpartum depression.
In early August 2005, a fire destroyed the garage and office of her Utah home; no one was injured in the blaze.
In mid-2006, Marie and Donny appeared on The Insider, a syndicated entertainment magazine television show, where they were interviewed by Kathie Lee Gifford. Marie revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child, although she declined to discuss the identity of her abuser. She also talked about how, at the age of 15 when she and Donny were starring in their television variety show, someone (probably a producer or some other administrative person) took her outside to the parking lot and told her that she was an embarrassment to her family and would ruin the show if she didn't lose ten pounds. (She was 5'5" and weighed 103 pounds at that time.) She was also warned that if she told anyone in her family about this threat, it would be vehemently denied. She talked about how she subsequently lived with eating disorders as a result of this threat for several years.
In early 2006, it was revealed that two of her teenaged children posted risque bios of themselves on their Myspace websites. Marie publicly vowed to work to make the Internet safer, after she was informed of this.[2]
On August 3, 2006, MSNBC [3] reported that she was hospitalized for a bad reaction to medication, denying reports that she had attempted suicide. The National Enquirer reported in its August 14, 2006, edition that Osmond’s hospitalization was the result of a failed suicide attempt.
[edit] Current career
Recently, Marie's radio show, Marie And Friends, was cancelled after just 10 months.
Along with actor John Schneider, Marie is the co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network.
She is a regular on QVC where her "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls" are the top-selling line. Marie has launched her own embroidery machine, sewing machine, and embroidery designs through Bernina. She has recently been featured on the cover of Designs in Machine Embroidery, a national magazine for machine embroidery enthusiasts. The cover article featured an interview with Marie where she discussed how she became involved in embroidery.
She also is a judge on Celebrity Duets on FOX.
[edit] Discography
SOLO ALBUMS
- Paper Roses (1973) US #59 / UK #46
- In My Little Corner of the World (1974) US #164
- Who's Sorry Now (1975) US #152
- This Is the Way I Feel (1977) US #152
- There's No Stopping Your Heart (1985)
- I Only Wanted You (1986)
- All in Love (1988)
- Steppin' Stone (1989)
- The Best of Marie Osmond (1990)
DONNY & MARIE ALBUMS
- I'm Leaving it All Up to You (1974) US #35 / UK #13
- Make the World Go Away (1975) US #133 / UK #30
- Donny & Marie - Featuring Songs from Their Television Show (1976) US #60
- Donny & Marie - A New Season (1976) US #85
- The Osmonds' Christmas Album (1976) US #127
- Winning Combination (1978) US #99
- Goin' Coconuts (soundtrack) (1978) US #98
SOLO SINGLES
- "Paper Roses" (1973) US #5, US Country #1, US AC #1 / UK #2
- "In My Little Corner of the World" (1974) US #102, US Country #33
- "Who's Sorry Now?" (1975) US #40, US AC #21
- "A - My Name is Alice" (1976) US Country #86
- "This Is the Way I Feel" (1977) US Pop #39
- "Meet Me in Montana" (1985) US Country #1 - duet with Dan Seals
- "There's No Stopping Your Heart" (1986) US Country #1
- "You're Still New to Me" (1986) US Country #1 - duet with Paul Davis
- "Like a Hurricane" (1990) US Country #57
- "What Kind of Man (Walks On a Woman)" (1995)
DONNY & MARIE SINGLES
- "I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You" (1974) US #4, US AC #1, US Country #17 / UK #2
- "Morning Side of the Mountain" (1974) US #8, US AC #1 / UK #5
- "Make the World Go Away" (1975) US #44, US AC #31 / UK #18
- "Deep Purple" (1975) US #14, US AC #8 / UK #25
- "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (1976) US #21, US AC #17
- "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" (1977) US #38, US AC #18
- "On the Shelf" (1978) US #38, US AC #25
[edit] Filmography
- Hugo the Hippo (1975) - Vocalist
- "Donny and Marie" (1976) - Herself
- Goin' Coconuts (1978) - Marie
- The Gift of Love (1978) - Beth Atherton
- "The Big Show" (1980) - Host
- "Marie" (1980) TV Series - Herself
- The Osmond Family Christmas Special (1980) - Herself
- Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family (1982) - Olive Osmond
- Rooster (1982) - Sister Mae Davis
- "The Love Boat" (1982) - Maria Rosselli (2 episodes)
- I Married Wyatt Earp (1983) - Josephine 'Josie' Marcus
- Rose Petal Place (1984) - Rose Petal
- The Velveteen Rabbit (1984) - Fairy Princess and Velveteen Rabbit
- Rose Petal Place: Real Friends (1985) - Rose Petal
- Marie Osmond's Merry Christmas (1986) - Host
- "Maybe This Time" (1995) - Julia Wallace
- Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night (1998) - Queen (voice)
- "Donny & Marie" (1998) - Host
