… My first memory of hearing about Gypsy Rose Lee was when I was about five or six. I remember seeing the movie âGypsyâ on TV, and I was so embarrassed when Natalie Wood began to strip,â says Strom.
âThen when I was a little older, in about 1968, the real Gypsy Rose Lee had her own TV talk show on Channel 7 in San Francisco. I watched it when it was on very early in the morning before I went to school, and thought, Iâve seen her movie!â
Lee had begun working in Vaudeville as a child. She moved on to Burlesque shows and Broadway with the Ziegfield Follies by 1936, then on to Hollywood.
Though she signed with 20th Century Fox, Strom says that the Catholic League of Decency and Hayes (censorship) office decreed that a stripper could not be in the movies. Still, she refused to become a victim. She took a series of roles in âBâ movies under her given name, Louise Hovick.
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