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Author Quinn, Carolyn, author.

Title Mama Rose's turn : the true story of America's most notorious stage mother / Carolyn Quinn
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages)
Contents Hospitality. Resilience on the Prairie ; Wild Prairie Rose ; The Unvanquished Seattle Schoolgirl -- Rose : the woman. Hovick v. Hovick ; The Baby Stands on Her Toes ; Madam Hovick : The Developer of Children ; The Act Gets Curbed ; Dainty Bolshevik ; Half a Dozen Junes ; Front and Center ; Bathtub Gin ; The Malevolent Cipher ; Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hovick ; Hot Soup ; The Legal Debacle Follies ; West Coast Whirlwind ; Bed Rest and Blackmail ; One Last Laugh -- Rose : the legend. Gypsy, A Musical Fable
Summary Hers is the show business saga you think you already know - but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy : A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage. Rose's full story is even more striking. Born fearless on the North Dakota prairie in 1892, Rose Thompson had a kind father and a gallivanting mother who sold lacy finery to prostitutes. She became an unhappy teenage bride whose marriage yielded two entrancing daughters, Louise and June. When June was discovered to be a child prodigy in ballet, capable of dancing en pointe by the age of three, Rose, without benefit of any theatrical training, set out to create onstage opportunities for her magical baby girl - and succeeded. Rose followed her own star and created two more in dramatic and colorful style: "Baby June" became a child headliner in vaudeville, and Louise grew up to be the well-known burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. The rest of Mama Rose's remarkable story included love affairs with both men and women, the operation of a "lesbian pick-up joint" where she sold homemade bathtub gin, wild attempts to extort money from Gypsy and June, two stints as a chicken farmer, and three allegations of cold-blooded murder - all of which was deemed unfit for the script of Gypsy. Here, at last, is the saga that never made it to the stage.--description provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Nov. 22, 2013)
Subject Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.
Hovick, Rose Thompson, 1892-1954.
Havoc, June.
SUBJECT Havoc, June fast
Hovick, Rose Thompson, 1892-1954 fast
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 fast
Subject Entertainers -- United States -- Biography
Mothers of entertainers -- United States -- Biography
Mothers and daughters -- United States
Actors -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Broadway & Musical Revue.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
Actors
Entertainers
Mothers and daughters
Mothers of entertainers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013015120
ISBN 9781617038549
1617038547
9781621039839
1621039838