Pounce-Matics Amuse-Matics Page - Gypsy Rose Lee - American Burlesque Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act. She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose
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Gypsy Rose Lee, her husband, Robert Mizzy, and her mother, Rose Hovick, (Mama Rose of GYPSY fame), outside their trailer Stock Photo - Alamy
Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman during rehearsal for the stage production Gypsy. - NYPL Digital Collections
![How striptease saved my mother: As the musical of Gypsy Rose Lee's life comes to London, her son reveals how she escaped her monstrous mother to become the world's greatest ever burlesque How striptease saved my mother: As the musical of Gypsy Rose Lee's life comes to London, her son reveals how she escaped her monstrous mother to become the world's greatest ever burlesque](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/20/26BD62B200000578-3004295-image-a-3_1426862034449.jpg)