ABOUT GYPSY ROSE LEE
American burlesque dancer, actress, and writer whose famous memoir was adapted into the Broadway musical Gypsy. Her mystery novel, The G-String Murders, served as the basis for the Barbara Stanwyck film Lady of Burlesque.
Beginning at the age of seven, she performed with her younger sister, June, in a vaudeville act entitled "Baby June and Her Farmboys."
She acted in a 1937 film entitled You Can't Have Everything.
She was born to Rose Thompson Hovick and John Hovick. Her actress sister went by the stage name of June Havoc . She was married three times and had one child, Erik.
Jule Styne composed the music for Gypsy, a musical based on Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir.
