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Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper

Gypsy Rose Lee,

Erik Preminger (Afterword)

Start date: February 1, 2011

Finish date: February 28, 2011

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Jan 12, 2011 Kim rated it it was amazing

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I have seen the movie of "Gypsy" and I now want to read a biography about her that covers where this books ends. Since this is from Gypsy herself, I wonder how much was left out due to her lack of remembering or her own mind clouding what she remembered. I also would like to know more about why her mother was so driven. Stage mother was invented to describe her! ...more

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