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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Print version record |
Subject |
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.
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SUBJECT |
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 fast |
Subject |
Stripteasers -- United States -- Biography
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Stripteasers
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199709786 |
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0199709785 |
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1282053825 |
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9781282053823 |
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9786612053825 |
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6612053828 |
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0199831017 |
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9780199831012 |
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