- Sister of 20th Century Fox production manager Abe Steinberg and his twin sister, Fox film editor Betty Steinberg.
- Became Marilyn Monroe's dialogue coach.
- Rose married Patty Wapner, uncle of Judge Joseph Wapner of "The People's Court".
- Rose Steinberg Wapner was the long time dialogue coach for actress Marilyn Monroe. Rose remembered Monroe on the set of Show Business with Ethel Merman, going over the same scene again and again until Wapner could see physical weakness in her eyes. It is the only film in which she observed this kind of weariness and dissipation of creative energy in Monroe.
- In 1983 she was honored with a Life Time Achievement Award by the Society of Operating Cameramen. When she found that the SOC's adopted charity was the Eye Care Clinic at the Los Angeles Childrens Hospital, Rose for years was leading fund raiser for the Society's charity. So touched by one young patient, Katie Sleeman, Rose designed a memorial plaque presented to the family at the Directors Guild.
- She began her career as an extra with her brother and sister in Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 "The Ten Commandments." She later worked as a film cutter, lab technician and dialogue coach, eventually finding her niche as a script supervisor at 20th Century Fox.
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