Research Catalog

Title

Gypsy Rose Lee papers, 1910-1970.

Author

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Thompson, Rose.
• Havoc, June.

Found In

p1bc Gypsy Rose Lee Archive. (CStRLIN)NYPW96-A246.

Description

• 28.22 lin. ft. (81 boxes)
• 6 reels of microfilm.

Summary

The Gypsy Rose Lee papers span the years 1910-1970 and include personal papers, correspondence, legal and financial documents, photographs, appointment calendars, contracts, programs and home, garden and landscape diaries.

Subject

• Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970
• Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 > Homes and haunts
• Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 > Biography
• United Service Organizations (U.S.)
• Dressmaking
• Actresses > United States > Portraits
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• Striptease
• Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
• Vaudeville
• Burlesque (Theater)
• Women entertainers
• Television talk shows
• Gardening
• Interior decoration
• Gardens > Design
• Women television personalities

Note

• Photographs were removed from the scrapbooks after microfilming and integrated into Series IX. Photographs.

Access (note)

• Collection is open to the public. Advance notice may be required. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Photographs of Lee may only be reproduced with permission from the Lee estate.

Reproduction (note)

• are available on microfilm;

Source (note)

• Erik Lee Preminger

Biography (note)

• Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque star, actress, author and televison personality was born Rose Louise Hovick, January 9, 1914 in Seattle, Washington.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of : Gypsy Rose Lee Archive in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed/cataloged

Call Number

*T-Mss 1990-014

OCLC

NYPW96-A247

Author

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.

Title

Gypsy Rose Lee papers, 1910-1970.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Advance notice may be required. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Photographs of Lee may only be reproduced with permission from the Lee estate.

Reproduction

Series X. Scrapbooks are available on microfilm; The Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; (*ZC-532)(Reels 1-6).

Linking Entry

Forms part of : Gypsy Rose Lee Archive in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.

Biography

Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque star, actress, author and televison personality was born Rose Louise Hovick, January 9, 1914 in Seattle, Washington. She performed with her sister June in vaudeville shows touring the country during the 1920s. After the decline in vaudeville's popularity, Miss Lee turned to burlesque and became a major striptease star in the 1930s. In 1938, she signed with Twentieth Century-Fox to act in films. She went back to burlesque in the 1940s, but also began to cultivate her writing skills becoming an author. She wrote three mystery novels and her memoir, entitled GYPSY. Her memoir was adapted for the stage in 1959 and later became a motion picture in 1962. Gypsy Rose Lee moved from New York to California in 1965 and soon became host of her own talk show which ran from 1965-1968. Gypsy Rose Lee died April 26, 1970.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.

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Finding Aid

Local Subject

Costume construction.

Fabric swatches.

Added Author

Thompson, Rose.

Havoc, June.

Found In:

p1bc Gypsy Rose Lee Archive. (CStRLIN)NYPW96-A246.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1990-014

*ZC-532