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Author Frankel, Noralee, 1950-

Title Stripping Gypsy : the life of Gypsy Rose Lee / Noralee Frankel
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index
Notes English
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Subject Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.
SUBJECT Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 fast
Subject Stripteasers -- United States -- Biography
Stripteasers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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