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Based on the Broadway boff that was based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, the film affects to explain how a nice little girl from Seattle grew up to be the genius of grind. The explanation is Momma. As Roz portrays her, Momma Hovick is the matriarchetype of the stage mother, an all-too-human dynamo who sees in her daughters, big clumsy Louise (Natalie Wood) and talented little June (Ann Jilliann), a second chance at fame...
Some real names are out of character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
...Watching." Mother Rose Hovick was a divorcee and frustrated actress who hustled her daughter June to Hollywood at the" age of three, landed her in Our Gang comedies as the hungry-looking waif, got her to weep in the sad scenes by whispering, "Darling, your dog has just been run over." When Dainty June was four, Mother whipped up a vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them...
Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
Divorced. Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Louise Hovick) 27, No. 1 U. S. stripper; from Robert Mizzy, 35, Manhattan dental-supply manufacturer; after four years' marriage; in Chicago. Grounds: he knocked her down twice...