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Rose Evangeline Hovick (née Thompson; August 31, 1890 – January 28, 1954) was an American talent manager best known as the mother of two famous performing daughters: burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee and actress and dancer June Havoc.
Seattle-born Rose Louise Hovick had her first brush with fame at age one, winning a healthy baby contest. As Gypsy Rose Lee, she became famous in burlesque as a classy and witty strip tease artist.
Gypsy Rose Lee (también conocida como Rose Louise Hovick y Louise Hovick) (8 de enero de 1911 [1] – 26 de abril de 1970) fue una actriz y vedette estadounidense, artista del género burlesque y escritora cuyas memorias de 1957, escritas como homenaje a su madre, fueron llevadas al musical y al cine con el nombre de Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, actress, author, playwright and vedette famous for her striptease act. Her 1957 memoir was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy .
20 de jul. de 2012 · Rose Thompson Hovick, whose offspring included Gypsy Rose Lee, the burlesque queen, and June Havoc, the actress, is remembered as the ultimate stage mother thanks to the 1959 Broadway musical...
Carolyn Quinn's "Mama Rose's Turn" reveals the true story of Rose Thompson Hovick, who led a troupe of performing children in the 1920s and 1930s. The book challenges the fictionalized portrayal of Hovick in the musical Gypsy by Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne.
Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage.
