Her sister Betty sang in a duo with Clooney for much of her early career.

In the late-1970s and early-1980s, Clooney did television commercials for Coronet brand paper towels, during which she sang a memorable jingle that goes, " Extra value is what you get, when you buy Coro-net.

Clooney sang the song in the 1953 film The Stars Are Singing in a scene where she ended up mocking the song and said no one would listen to it.

Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney recorded a duet for the 1958 album Fancy Meeting You Here.

In 1989, Boone released her Christmas album, Home For Christmas, which boasted a duet with her mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney, of Clooney's signature White Christmas.

He recorded it as a duet with Rosemary Clooney.

Making good on his Schizopolis-inspired " artistic wake-up call ", his commercial slump ended in 1998 with Out of Sight, a stylized adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, written by Scott Frank and starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.

Following up Full Frontal stylistically was Soderbergh next project, K Street ( 2003 ), a ten-part political HBO series he co-produced with Clooney.

Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct an adaptation of the television series with George Clooney set to star but had to back out due to health issues.

According to a June 2009 report in Variety, Zoë Green had been hired to write the series, with George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions as executive producers on the project.

Clooney continued working with the Pastor band until 1949, making her last recording with the band in May of that year and her first as a solo artist a month later, still for Columbia.

Clooney recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town series on CBS.

In later years, Clooney would often appear with Bing Crosby on television, such as in the 1957 special The Edsel Show, and the two friends made a concert tour of Ireland together.

Upon her recovery from a nervous breakdown in 1968, Clooney signed with United Artists Records in 1976 for two albums.

During this time she wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by Playboy Press in 1977.

In 1999 Clooney published her second autobiography, Girl Singer: An Autobiography describing her battles with addiction to prescription drugs for depression, and how she lost and then regained a fortune.

A long-time smoker, Clooney was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of 2001.

In March 2012, Sheen was featured with George Clooney in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as attorney Theodore Olson.

* Rosemary Clooney ( 1964 – 1967 ): Ferrer and Clooney remarried on November 22, 1964 in Los Angeles ; however, the marriage again crumbled while Ferrer was carrying on an affair with the woman who would become his last wife, Stella Magee.

Out Of Sight with Jenifer Lopez and George Clooney was filmed at a private residence in Bloomfield Hills.

Also that year, she voiced Marina in the animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt, as well as starring as serial divorcee Marilyn Rexroth in the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney.

Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom E / R ( not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also co-starred a decade later ).

Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure ( with Clooney himself calling the film " a waste of money ").

Clooney suffered an accident on the set of Syriana, which resulted in a brain injury with complications arising from a punctured dura.

Boyd would record several more hit records: teaming up with Frankie Laine in the spring of 1953 on " Tell Me a Story " ( written by Terry Gilkyson ), which reached # 4, and " The Little Boy And The Old Man " (# 24 ), and with Rosemary Clooney that summer on " Dennis the Menace ," which reached # 25.

* George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro — " Man of Constant Sorrow " ( from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

" Woman " was recorded by José Ferrer ( back to back with a recording of " Man " by his wife, Rosemary Clooney ), but Desmond's was the bigger version in the US ( though the UK Singles Chart favored the Ferrer recording ).

In 1945, the Clooney sisters won a spot on Cincinnati, Ohio's radio station WLW as singers.

" James Belushi later parodied Clooney and the commercial while as a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s.

On January 27, 1996, Clooney appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion radio program.

In 2003 Rosemary Clooney was inducted into the Kentucky Women Remembered exhibit and her portrait by Alison Lyne is on permanent display in the Kentucky State Capitol's rotunda.

* Rosemary Clooney ( 1953 – 1961 ): Ferrer first married Clooney on June 1, 1953 in Durant, Oklahoma.

* 1998: In the film Out of Sight, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, two of the main characters lose control of their vehicle coming down the Atchafalaya River Bridge on U. S. Route 190 Westbound.

In 2000, the novel was adapted again as a televised play, starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, and Noah Wyle and broadcast live in black and white on CBS.

Though he made his acting debut on television in 1978, Clooney gained fame and recognition by portraying Dr. Douglas " Doug " Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999.

Clooney achieved stardom when he played Dr. Doug Ross, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC drama ER from 1994 to 1999.

Clooney began appearing in films while working on ER.

In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana, which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer and his memoirs of being an agent in the Middle East.

In 1996, actor George Clooney decided to boycott Entertainment Tonight to protest the presence of intrusive paparazzi after Hard Copy did an exposé about his love life, violating an agreement he had with Paramount, which produced both shows.

Although Clooney has since ended his boycott, Entertainment Tonight has continued to broadcast video and photography taken by celebrity-stalking paparazzi, with some of the staff of Hard Copy absorbed into the staff of Entertainment Tonight after that program's 1999 cancellation.

When actor George Clooney launched a public campaign to boycott the show Hard Copy, similar shows started gaining a negative reputation.

In 1996, actor George Clooney began a public boycott of Hard Copy and its sister show Entertainment Tonight ( both were produced by Paramount Television ) after Hard Copy violated a six-month agreement not to air segments about Clooney by airing footage of Clooney and then-girlfriend Celine Balitran on the set of his film Batman & Robin.