Acting

Gypsy Rose Lee

Born January 8, 1911 · Seattle, Washington, USA

Died April 26, 1970 · aged 59

Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper and vedette famous for her striptease act. Also an actress, author, and playwright, her 1957 memoir was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy which inspired the 1962 musical comedy-drama film Gypsy. From Wikipedia.

Known For

Belle of the Yukon

Belle of the Yukon · 1944

Belle of the Yukon

MovieWesternComedy

Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels · 1966

The Trouble with Angels

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque · 1943

Lady of Burlesque

MovieMysteryComedy

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Gypsy

MovieTV MovieComedy

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Babes in Bagdad

Babes in Bagdad · 1952

Babes in Bagdad

The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen · 1943

Stage Door Canteen

MovieComedyRomance

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.

Wind Across the Everglades

Wind Across the Everglades · 1958

Wind Across the Everglades

MovieAdventureDrama

Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.

Gypsy

MovieComedyDrama

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Filmography

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Belle of the Yukon

Belle of the Yukon · 1944

Belle of the Yukon

MovieWesternComedy

Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

Belle De Valle

The Trouble with Angels

The Trouble with Angels · 1966

The Trouble with Angels

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

Mrs. Mabel Dowling Phipps

Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque · 1943

Lady of Burlesque

MovieMysteryComedy

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Novel

Gypsy

MovieTV MovieComedy

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Novel

Babes in Bagdad

Babes in Bagdad · 1952

Babes in Bagdad

The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.

Zohara

Stage Door Canteen

Stage Door Canteen · 1943

Stage Door Canteen

MovieComedyRomance

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.

Gypsy Rose Lee

Wind Across the Everglades

Wind Across the Everglades · 1958

Wind Across the Everglades

MovieAdventureDrama

Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.

Mrs. Bradford

Gypsy

MovieComedyDrama

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Novel

Gypsy

MovieComedyDrama

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Novel

Sally, Irene and Mary

Sally, Irene and Mary · 1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

MovieComedyRomance

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Joyce Taylor

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Ali Baba Goes to Town · 1937

Ali Baba Goes to Town

MovieComedyFamily

While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.

Sultana/Louise Hovick (billed as Louise Hovick)

Screaming Mimi

Screaming Mimi · 1958

A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her?

Joann 'Gypsy' Masters

My Lucky Star

My Lucky Star · 1938

MovieComedyMusic

George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.

Marcelle La Verne (as Louise Hovick)

The Over the Hill Gang

The Over the Hill Gang · 1969

The Over the Hill Gang

MovieWesternComedy

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken judge and a trigger-happy sheriff.

Cassie

The Stripper

The Stripper · 1963

MovieRomanceDrama

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

Madame Olga

Doll Face

Doll Face · 1945

MovieComedyMusic

Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of publicity by writing her autobiography. He hires a ghost writer to do all the work, but doesn't count on the possibility that Doll Face and her collaborator might have more than a book on their minds.

Theatre Play

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything · 1937

You Can't Have Everything

MovieComedyRomance

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

Lulu Riley

Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company

Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company · 1992

Gypsy: Live from the Southern Arizona Light Opera Company

MovieMusicDrama

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.

Book

Battle of Broadway

Battle of Broadway · 1938

Battle of Broadway

MovieActionAdventure

The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.

Linda Lee

Burke's Law

Burke's Law · 1963

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

Miss Bumpsy Cathcart

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game · 1968

The Name of the Game

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

Rosetta Stewart