Gypsy: The Art of the Tease (27 page)
National Legion of Decency, 40, 86,
Los Angeles Times,
88, 90
87, 88, 91
Luce, Clare Booth, 156
New Faces,
56
Lyons, Eugene, 158
News Chronicle,
164
New Yorker,
2, 22, 32, 50, 52, 80, 84, 97,
MacNeice, Louis, 115
99, 108, 113, 117, 123–24, 146, 170
Mademoiselle,
138
New York Evening Graphic,
34–35
Maison, Gil, 134
New York Evening Journal,
33
Mama Rose.
See
Hovick, Rose (Mama
New York Herald Tribune,
124
Rose)
New York Journal American,
147
Mangione, Jerre, 101
New York Post,
75
Mann, Klaus and Erika, 113
New York Times,
38, 55, 57, 79–80, 81,
Mantle, Burns, 124
101, 108, 135, 137, 139, 142, 143,
Mayer, Michael, 115
144, 149, 174, 176
McCullers, Carson, 12, 113, 114, 115
New York World,
75
McIntyre, O. O., 58
New York World’s Fair (1939–40),
Mencken, H. L., 41, 103–5, 119
98–100
Merman, Ethel, 62, 101, 102, 123,
164,
167,
170, 187
“Of Thee I Spend,” 70–71,
72
Merrick, David, 168
O’Hara, John, 117
Miller, Henry, 49–50, 111
On Your Toes,
61
Minsky brothers, 32, 33–34, 35, 40,
Oshins, Julie, 141–42
53, 75, 85, 165
Miranda, Carmen, 106
Paglia, Camille, 188
Mitchell, Joseph, 50, 99
Pal Joey,
98, 117–18
Mizzy, Bob, 40, 79–80, 91–93, 97,
pansy craze, 59
120–21, 155
Pears, Peter, 114
More Havoc
(Havoc), 40, 185, 186
Person to Person,
156
Morehouse, Ward, 115
Pickford, Mary, 21, 57
Mother Finds a Body
(Lee), 135, 144–45
Pins and Needles,
76
mots justes, 47, 57
Playboy,
165–66
216
Index
Porter, Cole, 101, 102
Screaming Mimi,
178
Preminger, Barbara, 175
Sedermayr, Carl J., 153
Preminger, Erik Lee (Gypsy’s son):
Seebohm, Caroline, 114
on death of Rose’s companion, 91;
Seven Middagh Street, 111, 113–16
on Gypsy and Winchell, 73; and
sex and sexuality: burlesque and,
Gypsy’s affair with Todd, 109, 111;
23–24, 33–34, 49–50; in
Gypsy
Gypsy’s Donner party story, 13; on
(musical), 170–71, 172–73; and
Gypsy’s reading list, 19; on Gypsy’s
Gypsy’s striptease, 4–5, 29, 43–44,
story, 166, 185; on his father and
57, 59–60, 66, 69–70, 73, 188–89;
mother’s relationship, 147–48,
Hollywood and, 89–90; and prod-
184; on Mizzy, 40; traveling with
uct promotion, 163
Gypsy, 21, 22, 153, 157, 187; use
Seymour, Maurice, 82
of “Lee,” 21
Shore, Dinah, 148
Preminger, Otto, 147–48
The Show Is On,
84
The Pruitts of Southampton,
181
Shubert brothers, 63, 65–66, 81, 83
Silliman, Leonard, 56
Raddock, Charles, 150
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,
60–61
radio, 158
Smirnoff, 180
Ragland, Rags, 51–52
Smith, Anna Nicole, 6
Red Channels,
158
Smith, Cecil, 119
Red Decade
(Lyons), 158
Smith, H. Allen, 105
Rice, Craig, 125, 150
Snow, Carmel, 56
Rich, Frank, 186–87, 188
Snyder, Melba, 118
Robbins, Jerome, 10, 168, 171–72
Snyder, Robert, 2
Rodgers, Richard, 61, 117
Sobel, Bernard, 37, 38
Rome, Harold, 76–77, 131
Sondheim, Stephen, 10, 123, 168, 186
Rose, Billy, 41, 176
Sothern, Georgia, 103–4, 133
Rossen, Robert, 58
Spanish Loyalists, 96–97, 158–59
Royal American Carnival, 11,
152,
Springmaid Linens, 163
153–55
Stage Door Canteen,
139–41
Royer, 82, 87
Stanwyck, Barbara, 100, 127, 139
Runyon, Damon, 59, 133
Star and Garter,
110, 129–33,
130
Ryan, Ed, 27
Steinem, Gloria, 43
Straw Hat Circuit, 178–79
Saratoga Circuit, 100
Streets of Paris,
106–8
Saratoga Springs, 100–101
striptease: as accident, 27–28, 44; as
Schulz, Dutch, 36, 37
American, 2, 7–8, 84–85; banality
Scott, Randolph, 148–49
of, 129; before and after Gypsy,
217
Index
striptease (
continued
)
Susann, Jacqueline, 150
1–3, 187–89; bump and grind style,
Sutherland, Eddie, 88
46; and burlesque, 1, 24, 33–34, 92;
censorship of, 3, 86–87, 96, 140,
Talking Through My Hats
(Daché),
149, 151–52, 165–66; for charity,
105–6
105–6, 119; contests, 62; costumes,
Taurog, Norman, 87
28–29, 45, 46, 82, 132–33, 154,
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 132, 134
157; current attitudes toward, 5–7;
television, 151–52, 156
declining interest in, 105, 117–18,
Theatre Café, 116–17
164–66; and the Depression, 29–30,
“The Things I Want” (Lee), 155
46; in Europe, 164; female imper-
This Is the Army,
141–42
sonation and, 59–60; in film, 87,
Thompson, Charlie and Anna (Big
98, 126–27, 148, 178; in
Gypsy
Lady), 14, 15, 16, 21, 150
(musical), 171–73; Gypsy on,
Thompson, Olive, 19
10–11, 53–54, 73, 182–83, 184;
Threepenny Opera,
179
Gypsy’s first, 21, 24–25,
26,
27–28;
Time,
56, 58, 88, 107, 108, 151, 158
Gypsy’s style, 4–5, 34, 43–49, 52,
Tippins, Sherill, 111
55–56, 77–78, 171; and homosexu-
Todd, Mike: and Gypsy, 109–11,
ality, 39; and humor, 8, 44, 45–46,
136, 138, 144, 162;
Naked Genius,
47, 73, 89, 108, 165, 171, 188–89;
142–43; at New York’s World Fair,
and illusion, 9, 25, 29; in literature,
106–7;
Star and Garter,
129; and
5, 49–51, 58–59; Mencken’s pseu-
Theatre Café, 116–17
donym for, 103–5; at New York
Town and Country,
74–75
World’s Fair (1939–40), 98–100;
transcontinental tour, 95–96
as self-revelation, 3–5, 29–30, 63,
Twentieth Century,
156, 166
69; “spider and fly” numbers,
Tynan, Kenneth, 170, 174, 182
44–45; and television, 151–52;
in theater, 60–61, 117–18, 150,
United Committee for French Relief
171–73, 178–79, 182; at Theatre
benefit, 105–6
Café, 116–17
Untermeyer, Louis, 114
Strip Tease: The Vanished Art of Bur-
U.S. House of Representatives, 85
lesque
(Alexander), 92
USO, 121
striptease intellectual, 118–19, 124
“A Stripteaser’s Education” (Gypsy’s
Van Doren, Carl, 50–51, 134
signature number), 62–63, 66–69,
Vanity Fair,
40, 60
71, 73, 131, 133–34
Variety,
33, 35, 62, 66, 83, 95, 157
Styne, Jule, 10, 168
vaudeville, 15–20
Sunday News,
183
Verdon, Gwen, 173
218
Index
Vertes, Marcel, 115, 136
White, George, 37–38
Victory Book Campaign, 124
Wilder, Billy, 126, 127
Vietnam War, 183
Wilson, Edmund, 23
Voila Gourmet Dog Food, 180
Winchell, Walter, 55, 73, 90, 108
Vreeland, Diana, 108, 132
Wolf, Louise Dahl, 113
The Women,
156
war bonds, 121
Wood, Natalie, 170
Watters, George Manker, 100
World Telegram,
50, 105
Weaver, Sigourney, 9, 187
Wright, Lee, 119, 120, 125, 144
Weidman, Jerome, 125
Weill, Kurt, 113, 179
Yaddo, 101, 111, 113
West, Mae, 48, 57, 59–60, 86, 87,
You Can’t Have Everything,
87, 88, 89
88–89, 148, 156, 176
Wexler, Irving, 36–37
Zanuck, Darryl, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92
Whalen, Grover, 99
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 36–37
What Makes You Tick?,
158
Ziegfeld Follies (1936), 62–73,
64,
What’s My Line?,
159
81
Wheelock, Dorothy, 145
zippers, 46–47, 98
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Quotations from the Gypsy Rose Lee Papers are used with permission of Erik Lee Preminger.
Excerpts from
Gypsy: Memoirs of America’s Most Celebrated Stripper,
by Gypsy Rose Lee, published by Frog, Ltd., copyright © 1985 by Erik Lee Preminger.
Reprinted with permission of publisher.
Excerpts from
My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee,
by Erik Lee Preminger, published by Frog, Ltd., copyright 2004 by Erik Lee Preminger. Reprinted with permission of publisher.
Selection from pp. 96, 102, 160, 195, 228, 276 from
More Havoc,
by June Havoc, copyright © 1979 by June Havoc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Quotations from Carson McCullers used with permission of the Estate of Carson McCullers.
Excerpt from “The Socratic Strip,” in
Misreadings,
by Umberto Eco, copyright
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Quotations from
Gypsy: A Musical Fable,
copyright © 1959, 1960, renewed 1989
by Arthur Laurents, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Stephen Sondheim. Published by Theatre Communications Group. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Quotation of letter from Arthur Laurents to Jerome Robbins during a rehearsal of
Gypsy
reprinted with permission of Arthur Laurents.
Quotation from
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster,
by Alfred Fried. Copyright © 1994 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Excerpt by Henry Miller, from
Aller Retour New York,
copyright © 1991 by Barbara Sylvas Miller, Henry Tony Miller, and Valentine Miller, copyright ©
1991 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt by Henry Miller, from
The Books in My Life,
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Excerpt from
Mythologies,
by Roland Barthes, published by Jonathan Cape.
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