American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

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• Dudester

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  14 years ago

  Thanks Sam. The female author of this piece skips all over the place making this a very uninteresting piece to read.
  
  Gypsy Rose Lee is the most famous "stripper" ever, but in actuality, she was never seen nude. If you're interested in her and what she was about, let me make a few recommendations:
  
  Stage Door Canteen-this 1942 film was about how actors back then supported the troops. You see something like 15 or 16 acts, one of which is Gypsy. She is entertaining, but the emnphasis is on tease as opposed to strip.
  
  Lady of Burleque-adapted from one of Gypsy's stories, this movie stars the very beautiful Barbara Stanwyck as a burlesque dancer. Barb puts on one burlesque number demonstrating that besides act, barb could also sing and dance.
  
  Mrs. Henderson Presents-a great movie about the first strip club in England and it's importance to the troops in World War 2. Knowing that my father probably was there once connected the movie for me.