Edgar Hoover (1977) Can't Stop the Music (1980) Return to Salem's Lot (1987). Filmography:įour Jacks and a Jill (1941) My Sister Eileen (1942) No Time for Love (1943) Casanova in Burlesque (1944) Sweet and Low Down (1944) Brewster's Millions (1945) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Intrigue (1947) The Iron Curtain (1948) When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948) Chicago Deadline (1949) The Story of Molly X (1949) Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950) Once a Thief (1950) Follow the Sun (1951) Lady Possessed (1952) Three for Jamie Dawn (1956) The Private Files of J. Born Ellen Evangeline Hovick on November 8, 1916, in Seattle, Washington daughter of John Hovick and Anna Thompson Hovick, known as Rose Hovick sister of Gypsy Rose Lee (1914–1970) attended public schools and was tutored when touring with her mother and sister married at 13 married William Spier (a director). Nonetheless, the gentlemen gave the girls a hearty round of applause while their mother beamed proudly. The younger of the girls, two-year-old June (later known as June Havoc ), was obviously the most talented, while the older one, four-yearold Louise, seemed awkward and uncomfortable. Charlie's daughter, Anna Thompson Hovick, who preferred to be known as Madame Rose, played the piano while her two daughters sang and danced. On a summer's evening in 1918, the worthy gentlemen of the West Seattle Knights of Pythias Lodge were treated to some after-dinner entertainment, provided courtesy of their fellow lodgemember Charlie Thompson. Two mystery novels, including G-String Murders, which was adapted for the screen as Lady of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck (1943) a play was also adapted for film as Doll Face (1946) Gypsy (1957, autobiography). (as Louise Hovick) You Can't Have Everything, Ali Baba Goes To Town (1937) Sally Irene and Mary, The Battle of Broadway, My Lucky Star (1938) (as Gypsy Rose Lee) Stage Door Canteen (1943) Belle of the Yukon (1944) Babes in Baghdad (1952) Screaming Mimi, Wind Across The Everglades (1958) The Stripper (1963) The Trouble With Angels (1966). Gypsy went on to even wider audiences in feature films and on radio, wrote two novels and a play, and published her memoirs, which were turned into Gypsy, one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time (1959), and later successfully adapted for film and television. From this point on, Gypsy took control of her own career, developing a trademark, almost balletic striptease act appreciated in terms of sophistication and entertainment value more than prurience. Mama Rose, undaunted, soon managed to get Louise star billing at a burlesque theater in Toledo, Ohio, where Louise performed her first, modest striptease and adopted the name Gypsy Rose Lee. 1916) attended public schools and was tutored when touring with her mother and sister married Arnold Mizzy (divorced 1938) married Alexander Kirkland (divorced 1944) married Julio de Diego (divorced 1951) children: (with film director Otto Preminger) Erik Lee Preminger.īrought up in show business from the time of her parents' divorce (1918) at first sang and danced with her younger sister June throughout the Northwest led a more settled existence during mother's two subsequent but short-lived marriages auditioned for various vaudeville circuits (early 1920s) won a contract with the Pantages circuit through the West and Midwest, but remained in the chorus line backing up her younger sister June June eloped with one of the chorus boys (1929) Rose soon built a new act around Louise, but by now vaudeville was dying in the surge of radio and feature films and was being replaced by its bawdier stepchild, burlesque. Born Rose Louise Hovick, but known as Louise Hovick, on February 9, 1914, in Seattle, Washington died on April 26, 1970, in Los Angeles, California daughter of John Hovick and Anna Thompson Hovick (known as Rose) sister of June Havoc (b. Celebrated American ecdysiast and writer who turned the striptease into an art form, was accepted as a legitimate actress, and whose memoirs of growing up in show business were turned into the musical Gypsy.
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