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A Woman to Know: Gypsy Rose Lee

A Woman to Know: Gypsy Rose Lee

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Julia Carpenter
Jul 09, 2019
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. — Gypsy Rose Lee

(image via Wikimedia Commons)


The famous Broadway musical immortalized her early life in showbiz. But Gypsy was a real person, with a real life, both off the stage and on.

Before she was the world's most famous burlesque star, she was a little girl touring the 1920s vaudeville circuit. Her mo…

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