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| Gypsy Rose Lee |
Burlesque artist, was an actor and writer Gypsy Rose Lee was born 100 years ago today. Called "no talent" by his own mother, she remains an inspiration for the four decades after his death.
Born in Seattle Rose Louise Hovick a teenage mother, fresh from a convent, Louise (as it was then called) began very early in the entertainment industry, alongside her younger sister as a variety show in June. It soon became clear that "Baby June" was the most talented artists of the two, and very young Louise was sidelined during June, even before he could speak, was pushed to the foreground .. "Dainty June, the Hollywood baby, and the Newsboys" The family moved to Hollywood and the plot was Rose renamed its young talents pushed in the movie - when an administrator needs to tears by a shot of two of the silence of course, would Rose say's mother that In June the family dog had died. His determination to see authoritarian girls have a successful stage career soon led to a divorce from her husband.
From his teenage years, Louise and June were responsible for supporting families with his act. They traveled the country playing cheap vaudeville, living in a suitcase and complete avoidance of formal education. But when he 13th June (or maybe 15 or 16 - Rose had five different birth certificates in June and the systematic reduction several years her true age), who broke the event with a memory loss and his partner Bobby Reed Variety.
Louise was unable to get their own act. 17, in Kansas City stranded, without reservation, an agent approached her to appear on stage burlesque (the stripper usually ended up in prison). Despite the objections of his mother, Louise took the job.
Gypsy Rose Lee is born.
Shortly thereafter, in New York 1 April 1931, in the famous 42nd Street Theatre Republic Minsky, of the first to burlesque to Broadway. Comedians Abbott and Costello, Phil Silvers, Red Buttons, Ragland fabric completes the law, but the highlight of the show were the strippers, during the height of the Depression, between $ 700 and $ 2000 per week. Gypsy Rose Lee was able to play 12 consecutive weeks in the Republic, a record for the theater. His arrest during raids in many theaters Minsky only increased public awareness of the rising star of the burlesque.
Many were at a loss to explain why all the pretty girls lose their clothes on stage, has become an attraction. noted in an article in Life magazine in 1942. "It shows less Margie Hart, less suggestive as Ann Corio, less" hot "Georgia Sothern, he despised the use of bumps or grinds, a fundamental right turns mocking their routine ... routine for years has been a slow strip, by a chip song patter is accompanied "His intelligent spells can as big a gain for the slow betrayed -. At that time, the percentage of women, almost half of the typical public striptease - and was known for his wit and relaxed scene sophisticated jokes.
Gypsy Rose Lee was involved in every aspect of your event, make your own songs and texts you to compose your own clothes, and an armchair psychologist might conclude that his perfectionism was driven by a "no talent" so early in his youth . Then her sister had spent a distinguished career in Hollywood in June Havoc, and both hold a rivalry over their lives, but was closely followed by the shared experience of growth to show in the world, with a domineering mother and are manipulative.
In 1937, acquired the reputation of the Gypsy Rose Lee her a Hollywood contract with Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck Studio, but religious groups and the Legion of Decency so loud that the Hays Office to leave their name and burlesque name Louise Hovick forced. His skills do not translate particularly well to the screen, and they soon returned to the burlesque scene, but occasionally appear in films for the rest of his career.
Despite its charms have won over audiences, helped his sense of humor and life experience make him more readers, which began a career as a writer to gain a few others. In 1941, his novel The G String offenses, the best-selling mystery since the publication of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. He published another mystery, the mother took a job in 1942, but his most famous work is now the Gypsies 1957: A Memoir.
Before publication, he had sold autobiographical fragments for The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and Collier, but now freed from fear of libel suits by the death of his mother, Gypsy Rose Lee a harsh light on your educational coloring book with Rose as the mother of all Mothers stage. Memory is adapted to the highly successful Broadway musical Gypsy: a musical fairy tale, the mother of the character of Rose in recent years played by Ethel Merman, Tyne Daly and Bernadette Peters. Rosalind Russell and Bette Midler played in film and television. Gypsy Rose Lee was played by Natalie Wood in the 1962 film.
Gitana author to a stable income for the rest of his life, but also to an alienation of June, the (their reservations were arranged with a cash run out) with his interpretation and his mother in production. His personal relationship less chaotic, married and divorced three times and Roma father a child out of wedlock by director Otto Preminger. Named Erik Lee, it would be only logical to be the man in her life and later pen his own memory, my G-String Mother, chronicles his experience working as manager of the first stage, when he was only eight years.
In his later years, Gypsy Rose Lee appeared on television, has hosted his own radio show and entertain the troops in Vietnam during USO tours. After lung cancer diagnosed, reconciled with her sister, joked that the disease was revenge for his mother. Gypsy Rose Lee died 26th April 1970.
In 1942, wrote Life magazine: "It is safe, every culture but our own could be so unique national Gypsy Rose Lee to dance can not sing, or act it, but earned more in the scene of Helen Hayes Katherine Cornell.."
This week, the New York Times that Barbara Streisand in talks, was in a remake ofGypsy star. What do you think of his talent is reasonable to assume that someone is planning a film about the life of Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell.
Born in Seattle Rose Louise Hovick a teenage mother, fresh from a convent, Louise (as it was then called) began very early in the entertainment industry, alongside her younger sister as a variety show in June. It soon became clear that "Baby June" was the most talented artists of the two, and very young Louise was sidelined during June, even before he could speak, was pushed to the foreground .. "Dainty June, the Hollywood baby, and the Newsboys" The family moved to Hollywood and the plot was Rose renamed its young talents pushed in the movie - when an administrator needs to tears by a shot of two of the silence of course, would Rose say's mother that In June the family dog had died. His determination to see authoritarian girls have a successful stage career soon led to a divorce from her husband.
From his teenage years, Louise and June were responsible for supporting families with his act. They traveled the country playing cheap vaudeville, living in a suitcase and complete avoidance of formal education. But when he 13th June (or maybe 15 or 16 - Rose had five different birth certificates in June and the systematic reduction several years her true age), who broke the event with a memory loss and his partner Bobby Reed Variety.
Louise was unable to get their own act. 17, in Kansas City stranded, without reservation, an agent approached her to appear on stage burlesque (the stripper usually ended up in prison). Despite the objections of his mother, Louise took the job.
Gypsy Rose Lee is born.
Shortly thereafter, in New York 1 April 1931, in the famous 42nd Street Theatre Republic Minsky, of the first to burlesque to Broadway. Comedians Abbott and Costello, Phil Silvers, Red Buttons, Ragland fabric completes the law, but the highlight of the show were the strippers, during the height of the Depression, between $ 700 and $ 2000 per week. Gypsy Rose Lee was able to play 12 consecutive weeks in the Republic, a record for the theater. His arrest during raids in many theaters Minsky only increased public awareness of the rising star of the burlesque.
Many were at a loss to explain why all the pretty girls lose their clothes on stage, has become an attraction. noted in an article in Life magazine in 1942. "It shows less Margie Hart, less suggestive as Ann Corio, less" hot "Georgia Sothern, he despised the use of bumps or grinds, a fundamental right turns mocking their routine ... routine for years has been a slow strip, by a chip song patter is accompanied "His intelligent spells can as big a gain for the slow betrayed -. At that time, the percentage of women, almost half of the typical public striptease - and was known for his wit and relaxed scene sophisticated jokes.
Gypsy Rose Lee was involved in every aspect of your event, make your own songs and texts you to compose your own clothes, and an armchair psychologist might conclude that his perfectionism was driven by a "no talent" so early in his youth . Then her sister had spent a distinguished career in Hollywood in June Havoc, and both hold a rivalry over their lives, but was closely followed by the shared experience of growth to show in the world, with a domineering mother and are manipulative.
In 1937, acquired the reputation of the Gypsy Rose Lee her a Hollywood contract with Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck Studio, but religious groups and the Legion of Decency so loud that the Hays Office to leave their name and burlesque name Louise Hovick forced. His skills do not translate particularly well to the screen, and they soon returned to the burlesque scene, but occasionally appear in films for the rest of his career.
Despite its charms have won over audiences, helped his sense of humor and life experience make him more readers, which began a career as a writer to gain a few others. In 1941, his novel The G String offenses, the best-selling mystery since the publication of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. He published another mystery, the mother took a job in 1942, but his most famous work is now the Gypsies 1957: A Memoir.
Before publication, he had sold autobiographical fragments for The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, and Collier, but now freed from fear of libel suits by the death of his mother, Gypsy Rose Lee a harsh light on your educational coloring book with Rose as the mother of all Mothers stage. Memory is adapted to the highly successful Broadway musical Gypsy: a musical fairy tale, the mother of the character of Rose in recent years played by Ethel Merman, Tyne Daly and Bernadette Peters. Rosalind Russell and Bette Midler played in film and television. Gypsy Rose Lee was played by Natalie Wood in the 1962 film.
Gitana author to a stable income for the rest of his life, but also to an alienation of June, the (their reservations were arranged with a cash run out) with his interpretation and his mother in production. His personal relationship less chaotic, married and divorced three times and Roma father a child out of wedlock by director Otto Preminger. Named Erik Lee, it would be only logical to be the man in her life and later pen his own memory, my G-String Mother, chronicles his experience working as manager of the first stage, when he was only eight years.
In his later years, Gypsy Rose Lee appeared on television, has hosted his own radio show and entertain the troops in Vietnam during USO tours. After lung cancer diagnosed, reconciled with her sister, joked that the disease was revenge for his mother. Gypsy Rose Lee died 26th April 1970.
In 1942, wrote Life magazine: "It is safe, every culture but our own could be so unique national Gypsy Rose Lee to dance can not sing, or act it, but earned more in the scene of Helen Hayes Katherine Cornell.."
This week, the New York Times that Barbara Streisand in talks, was in a remake ofGypsy star. What do you think of his talent is reasonable to assume that someone is planning a film about the life of Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell.
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