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Bill & Jessie's House

by Joyce Keating

Published: 2018-08-23

Paperback: 274 pages

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Bill and Jessie own a huge old home in Washington, DC's trendy area of Georgetown. They invite Morgan, their 33 year old niece and her husband Anders, to house sit for nine days while they vacation in London. Morgan is elated with the offer since as a stay-at-home mom for 4 year old Tyler, she feels...

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Gypsy: A Memoir

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 1999-07-15

Paperback: 408 pages

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Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony...

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My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee

by Erik Lee Preminger

Published: 2004-01-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on he...

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The G-String Murders (Femmes Fatales)

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 2005-06-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murders was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers?the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Lee provides a fascinating look behind the scenes of bu...

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Mother Finds a Body (Femmes Fatales)

by Gypsy Rose Lee

Published: 2012-07-03

Kindle Edition: 199 pages

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This encore performance by the author of The G-String Murders is simply “one of the greatest mysteries ever written” (Philadelphia Daily News).   It’s supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the ...

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Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road With Gypsy Rose Lee

by Erik Lee Preminger

Published: 1984-10-01

Hardcover: 277 pages

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The son of the famous and eccentric ecdysiast recalls his life with his mother and her sometimes outrageous struggle to survive and to maintain her style of life, her menagerie of pets, and her teen-aged son

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Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Robert Strom

Published: 2011-03-07

Paperback: 243 pages

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A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louise Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal education, and a mentally ill stage mother who criticized and demeaned her daughter. Despite these hurdles, Gypsy...

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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Noralee Frankel

Published: 2009-05-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections."Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized G...

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Barefoot to the Chin - The Fantastic Life of Sally Rand

by Jim Lowe

Published: 2018

Hardcover: 820 pages

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"In addition to being a very detailed biography of its subject, it is simultaneously a wonderfully readable history of the era's popular culture." - John Greenya, Washington Times. This definitive biography, which includes 100 pictures, is based on exclusive access to Sally's voluminous filing cabinets...

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Reflections of My Life-April March: The First Lady of Burlesque

by April March

Published: 2016-08-17

Paperback: 284 pages

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Imagine being a burlesque star while still a teenager, being married eight times and being pursued by some of the biggest names in show business and the King of Saudi Arabia, being involved in a mass shooting and fleeing Chicago to escape a Mafia boss. Now imagine this same person going ba...