GYPSY ROSE LEE (1937-65) Photo archive

Np: Various, 1937-1965. Set of 13 vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) and variant 6 x 8″ (15 x 20 cm) and 7 x 9″ (17 x 22 cm) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photos. Overall near fine.

Gypsy Rose Lee (1911-1970) was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, actress, author, playwright and vedette, famous for her striptease act. Her 1957 memoir, Gypsy: A Memoir, was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy. Sister June Havoc became a popular theatre and film star, she too writing about experiences with Mother Rose. Gypsy was married three times, and had son Erik with director Otto Preminger. Writing several mystery novels and her memoir kept Gypsy solvent as she aged, passing in 1970 at age 59. (Wikipedia)

Gypsy Rose Lee’s personal life and career are represented in this group of press and movie-related photos. Though her early career in burlesque is not covered, she is represented in her first film roles, including You Can’t Have Everything (1938), marriages to her husbands in 1937 and 1942, as a writer, with her son Erik in 1951 and as a TV host in 1965.