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Stripping Gypsy : the life of Gypsy Rose Lee /

"In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frankel, Noralee, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Getting started
  • The burlesque stage
  • Sophisticated stripper
  • Follies with girlfriends
  • The rise and fall of Louise Hovick
  • Failure as a dutiful wife
  • Death, dies, and mother
  • Finding the body
  • Cultured stripper
  • World's Fair stripper
  • The naked genius
  • Stripping for labor and the war effort
  • Motherhood
  • On the carnival circuit
  • Nothing to conceal
  • Strip around the world
  • Back home
  • Immortality in book and song
  • The most famous former stripper in the world
  • Aging gracefully in public.