page_title: Billy Rose
section_title: Later years and death
hierarchical_section_title: Billy Rose / Later years and death
caption_attribution_description: English: I took this photograph of the mausoleum of Billy Rose in Westchester Hills Cemetery on April 21, 2006. —GNU Free Documentation License
context_page_description: Billy Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt, Jumbo, Billy Rose's Aquacade, and Carmen Jones. As a lyricist, he is credited with many songs, notably "Don't Bring Lulu", "Tonight You Belong To Me", "Me and My Shadow", "More Than You Know", "Without a Song", "It Happened in Monterrey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon".
  Despite his accomplishments, Rose may be best known today as the husband of famed comedian and singer Fanny Brice.
context_section_description: From 1959 until his death in 1966, he was also the owner-operator of the Billy Rose Theater. During that time the theater housed four plays, one musical, one revue, three ballets, and twenty-nine concert performances. After his death, the theater retained its name, and remained in the ownership of his estate until 1978, when it was renamed. Today it is the Nederlander Theatre.
  Rose was a wealthy man when he died of lobar pneumonia at his vacation home in Montego Bay, Jamaica at the age of 66. At the time of his death, his fortune was estimated at about $42 million ($320 million in 2018 dollars), which he left entirely to a foundation named after him, disowning both of his sisters. He is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
  In 1970, Rose was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
caption: Billy Rose's mausoleum in Westchester Hills Cemetery
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