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A Short Biography of Gypsy Rose Lee

Author Name:

Gypsy Rose Lee

Born As:

Rose Louise Hovick

Other Names:

Born:

1914

Died:

26 Apr 1970




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Actor, entertainer and writer                          
Selected Works:


You Can't Have Everything - 1937
Ali Baba Goes to Town - 1937
Sally, Irene and Mary - 1938
Battle of Broadway - 1938
My Lucky Star - 1938
Stage Door Canteen - 1943
Belle of the Yukon - 1944
Babes in Bagdad - 1952
The Screaming Mimi - 1958
Wind Across the Everglades - 1958
The Stripper - 1963
The Trouble with Angels - 1966
Around the World of Mike Todd - 1968

Television:

Think Fast - 1949
The Gypsy Rose Lee Show - 1958
Who Has Seen the Wind? - 1965
Gypsy - 1965
Batman - 1966
The Pruitts of Southampton - 1966
The Over-the-Hill Gang - 1969

Bibliography:

Gypsy, A Memoir - 1957
The G-String Murders (novel) - 1942
Mother Finds a Body (novel) - 1942
The Naked Genius - play - 1943
Doll Face - 1945 - play.                          
Mother Rose Thompson
Father  John Hovick, two children, one younger sister Ellen, known as actress June Havoc.
First husband Arnold  Mizzy
Second husband William Alexander Kirkland. During this time Gypsy gave birth to a son, Erik Preminger,  fathered by Otto Preminger.                          
                          
Born February 9, 1911 or 1914.
Gypsy was a supporter of the Popular Front Movement in the Spanish Civil War and raised money for charity to alleviate the suffering of children during the conflict which preceded World War II.