Wait for Your Laugh

Timing is everything in comedy, and according to this nostalgic documentary portrait of Rose Marie, she always knew when to jump to the next big thing.

Basically, it feels as if you're sitting down with Rose Marie for 90 minutes while she talks about her life.

A warm, affectionate smooch of a documentary tribute chronicling "the longest career in showbiz history."

On the whole, "Wait for Your Laugh" is a well-deserved and most enjoyable tribute to a great entertainer of the old school.

"Wait for Your Laugh" pays fond tribute to a tireless trooper whom generations have known mostly as a wisecracking second banana often funnier than the bigger stars she supported.

[Jason] Wise's film is more than a tribute to her-it's a new setting within which, telling the story of her life, she performs again.

A portrait of an indefatigable entertainer emerges, restless when she wasn't working and fearless when she was.

Befitting its subject, the documentary "Wait for Your Laugh" is a breezy and engaging whirlwind trip through the crowded life of a performer who pretty much embodies the show-business term "trouper."

Sincere tribute to the 94-year-old actress Rose Marie.

As a recap of a monumental, astoundingly rich life, Wait for Your Laugh is a marvel.

... her fight to control her own career and image, and to strive for success beyond "typical" female roles remains a contemporary struggle.

Wait For Your Laugh does what a biographical documentary needs to do-document the life of an important person for the sake of posterity.