Dancer, Actor (9-Feb-1911 — 26-Apr-1970)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy: A Memoir. London: Andre Deutsch. 1957. 337pp.

Erik Lee Preminger. Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co.. 1984. 277pp.

Sherill Tippins. February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America. Houghton Mifflin. 2005. 224pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.408)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.618)

9. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.834)

10. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.281)

11. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.91)

12. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.429)

13. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.274)

14. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.3, pp.119-21)

15. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p.641)

16. Obituaries from the Times 1961-1970 (p.472)

17. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.317)

18. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.352)

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