Stripping Gypsy: the life of Gypsy Rose Lee
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Main Author: Frankel, Noralee (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009
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Item Description:"In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index
Getting started -- The burlesque stage -- Sophisticated stripper -- Follies with girlfriends -- The rise and fall of Louise Hovick -- Failure as a dutiful wife -- Death, dies, and mother -- Finding the body -- Cultured stripper -- World's Fair stripper -- The naked genius -- Stripping for labor and the war effort -- Motherhood -- On the carnival circuit -- Nothing to conceal -- Strip around the world -- Back home -- Immortality in book and song -- The most famous former stripper in the world -- Aging gracefully in public
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 300 pages)
ISBN:0195368037
0199709785
9780195368031
9780199709786

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