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Chorus Girl Returned Here as Gypsy Rose Lee, a Star [and] Queen of Strippers Dies of Cancer at 56
Title
Chorus Girl Returned Here as Gypsy Rose Lee, a Star [and] Queen of Strippers Dies of Cancer at 56
Description
Photo and obituary articles about Gypsy Rose Lee (1914-1970), "the queen of burlesque" appearing in the early 1930s as an unknown dancer at "the Cuban Gardens nightclub in Clay County," Missouri, before returning to Kansas City in 1937 (Music Hall) and 1938 (Tower Theater at 12th and Oak Streets) as a star with the Ziegfield Follies. Description of her life and career as a native of Seattle as Rose Louise Hovick and becoming a "vaudeville performer from childhood and a stripper in her teens," also hosting her own television show in the 1960s and writing several novels and an article for Harper's magazine in 1957 entitled "Stranded in Kansas City or a Fate Worse than Vaudeville."
Date
1970-04-27
Object Type
Newspaper Article
Up the Runway to Minsky's
Title
Up the Runway to Minsky's
Description
Second of two autobiographical articles from the book by Gypsy Rose Lee, a nationally famous striptease artist recounting her experiences as a burlesque performer at the Missouri Theater at 10th and Missouri Avenues in circa 1930 Kansas City.
Date
1957-05
Object Type
Magazine Article
Stranded in Kansas City or, a Fate Worse than Vaudeville
Title
Stranded in Kansas City or, a Fate Worse than Vaudeville
Description
First of two autobiographical articles from the book by Gypsy Rose Lee, a nationally famous striptease artist recounting her experiences as a burlesque performer at the Missouri Theater at 10th and Missouri Avenues in circa 1930 Kansas City.
Date
1957-04
Object Type
Magazine Article