biography
| name: |
Lee, Gypsy Rose
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originally Louise Rose Hovick
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1914–70)
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| biography:
| Stripper, actress, and writer, born in Seattle, Washington, USA. Starting as a four-year-old in vaudeville with her sister, she became the best-known stripper of the 1930s. She made some films (at first as Louise Hovick), and wrote two mystery stories as well as an autobiography that was the basis of the musical, Gypsy. Stylish and witty, she was briefly (1966) a talk-show host. |
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