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Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies (version #1)

Title: Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies (version #1) [videorecording] / [Produced by] Erik Preminger Productions.
Publication: c1998, 2009.

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1 videodisc (DVD) (79 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Documentary on entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, compiled and presented by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. Consists of excerpts from home movies, archival newsreels, kinescopes, and other motion pictures as well as still photos. Includes footage from her touring stage act, her performances at the New York World's Fair of 1939-40, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, guest appearances on various television programs, clips from Gypsy's own TV talk show, and footage of Gypsy entertaining American soldiers in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Includes images of Gypsy with her family, including her mother Rose Thompson and sister June Havoc, associates such as producer Mike Todd, and home movie footage taken backstage at the original Broadway production of Gypsy in 1959.

Series Statement

Gypsy Rose Lee video archive

Alternative Title

Gypsy Rose Lee's home movies
Gypsy Rose Lee home movies

Subject

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Home movies and video.

Note

Persons seen briefly in archival footage include Edward R. Murrow, Hugh Downs, Rags Ragland, Bobby Clark, Fanny Brice, Abbott & Costello, Otto Preminger, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Ethel Merman, Paul Lynde, Judy Garland, Liberace, Woody Allen, Richard Deacon, and Eartha Kitt.
This version of 'Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies' features a spoken introduction by Erik Lee Preminger, delivered at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, Calif., in 1998, and also includes a question and answer session with the audience after the film. A second edit of this presentation, called version #2, is available on NCOX 2699. That version includes a "live" in-house audio track of crowd response during the screening, a cutaway shot of Preminger delivering his narration, and a truncated cut of the question and answer session. The Q&A session on version #1 is unedited, and the audience is muted.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

Featuring Gypsy Rose Lee.
Host and narrator, Erik Lee Preminger.

Event (note)

Material compiled in the 1990's. Screened by Erik Lee Preminger at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, Calif., 1998.

Call Number

NCOX 2698

OCLC

921305999

Title

Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies (version #1) [videorecording] / [Produced by] Erik Preminger Productions.

Imprint

c1998, 2009.

Series

Gypsy Rose Lee video archive

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

Featuring Gypsy Rose Lee.

Host and narrator, Erik Lee Preminger.

Event

Material compiled in the 1990's. Screened by Erik Lee Preminger at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, Calif., 1998.

Local Note

Gift of Erik Lee Preminger.

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Added Author

Preminger, Erik Lee, host.

Preminger, Erik Lee, narrator.

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.

Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970, performer.

Erik Preminger Productions.

Preminger, Erik Lee, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2698

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