Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper Summary and Reviews

Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
by Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
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Author: Gypsy Rose Lee
Afterword: Erik Preminger
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-07-15
ISBN: 1883319951
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Frog Books

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Book Review: A Gypsy Bares Her Soul
Summary: 5 Stars

Gypsy Rose Lee was a beautiful and spirited woman and her memoir provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse into the rough and tumble glory days of American vaudeville. The reader is literally taken on the road with Gypsy, or Louise Hovick, her demanding, neurotic stage mother, Mama Rose, and precocious younger sister, Baby June,(who later became actress June Havoc) as they crisscross America with a troupe of young boys in a quest for stardom on the stages of the vaudeville theater circuit. Louise, the older, more neglected sister, "an ugly duckling" compared to her more popular sister, becomes the focus of her domineering mother's attention after the much put upon Baby June elopes with a boy from the show troupe at the tender age of thirteen. It is not the dream of Mama Rose for Louise to become a stripper, but the age of vaudeville has ended abruptly with the coming of talking motion pictures and live burlesque shows are all the rage. Mama Rose realizes for the first time that taken out of her sister's shadow, Louise is a natural performer. Thus, the ugly duckling emerges as a truly beautiful swan and the legend of Gypsy Rose Lee was born. Personally, I found this book hard to put down. Gypsy's life story could easily be described as "Aunt Mame In A G-String." She would make an interesting next door neighbor.

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