Gypsy Rose Lee strip routine
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2010
- This is footage of the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee performing an abbreviated (and very clean) version of her famous routine, "The Psychology of a Stripteaser" in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen. For more about Gypsy, visit: www.americanrosethebook.com.
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I was suprised to find out that my father was her Trumpet player for years !
what a mind blower ~!!!
You mean trumpet 🎺 blower
You dummy lol
He’s a blower of some kind…For sure!
If you wanna bump it: Bump it with a trumpet.
That’s cool!
This woman was very special to me and many of the combat wounded Vietnam military personnel hospitalized at Camp Zama Japan in 1969. She came by our beds, signed autographs and took photos
with us. Gypsy was very patriotic and had a soul of gold, how many elite stars would do that today? I will always cherish her photo of us together and she will always be in my prayers. She passed away shortly
after visiting us from cancer.
Great story! I also met her a few years earlier under completely different circumstances. She was so very kind to me.
I'm glad you got to meet Gypsy.☺
So basically, she was dying and was very likely aware of that but still went to Japan to cheer up the troops? That, my friend, is the mark of a very great lady.
Holly cow, how old was she by then?
@@johnkochen7264 absolutely, she is a heroine, a great lady in deed.
She was famous for her routines that emphasized humor over actual disrobing. The song "Zip!" from "Pal Joey" was based on her.
I recall reading about a journalist who attended one of her press conferences. She was dressed very sedately, but with above the elbow gloves. As she was talking, she was also very slowly undoing one button after another on a glove. He wrote that he was so fixated on that glove, he later couldn't recall a thing she said!
Great story about the journalist watching her gloves. Thanks for sharing that!😅
I'd never heard her speak before... she's an amazing comedienne! Perfect timing! Flawless delivery! Brava!
I believe Gypsy was a staple of early TV talk shows. I can remember her having appeared on Jack Paar, The Tonight Show in the 50s. I think she was also on Mike Stokey's Pantomime Quiz. Of course, by then she was tapped for her celebrity status and was not performing. She was even a panelist on What's My Line.
@@pascal1947 I did not know that. And to think the only mainstream Gypsy Rose we know these days is the Munchausen-by-proxy victim who killed her mom and ended up the subject of documentaries and countless RUclips true crime money grabs I MEAN videos
@@pascal1947 Gypsy actually had her own talk show for at least four years in the mid-1960s.
@@pascal1947 YES! I recall her name from childhood in front of the TV. I think I saw her on "Password", "Hoĺlywood Squares" and "Mike Douglas", etc. but I think all her risque humor must have sailed high over my head. Sigh. I didn't know I was watching a genius, tho I loved Fields, Chaplin, and Laurel & Hardy. They were more accessible to four-year-old me, who didn't get adult humor at all.
Apparently she was also semi-blacklisted during the McCarthy era for her earlier political affiliations and her ongoing union work. She (understandably) faced objections from Christian orgs and censorship boards too when she was starting to appear in films. I read that she appeared before the HUAC people and cleared herself (and without naming anyone else.) She was a treasure and deserved all the success she got and much more.
One thing about burlesque in those days, it was way more about the tease than the strip.
This film was from 1943, nearly 10 years after the Hays Code went into effect. They weren't going to show her actual routine, which included more bare skin.
While you’re not completely wrong that was actually Gypsy Rose’s signature. She always focused on the tease part but that certainly wasn’t everyone. She actually caught criticism a few times for not being “committed” and even got called boring because of it.
Gypsy was VERY much a stripper don't kid yourself. She had a walk and a rhythm combined with a non-stop comic patter that was absolutely mesmerizing. At the LEAST her stage act left her in pasties (if the law demanded) and the tiniest of G strings. Sometimes neither as she played peekaboo with giant powder puffs, feather fans etc. and stark naked.
Google Dita Von Tease
thats what burlesque means
To all the people saying things like "celebrities today should look at her", like...you guys realize that what she did wasn't necessarily considered "classy" back then? We simply have a greater appreciation for it now. But at the same time, you can't hate women that are made by companies to dress and act certain ways in order to sell things. If there was a female celebrity doing the same things Gypsy Rose Lee did (and there probably are), do you really think we would be saying "oh, she's so classyyy"?
Yes!
Dita Von Teese
Dylan seymour She gets called out for PLENTY. Not necessarily by fans of striptease, but I doubt a musical and/or movie based on Dita von Teese would get anywhere near the amount of love that "Gypsy" got.
Yes. You are right there. The thing is that Gypsy is the bench mark that everybody else has to try to live up to although no one ever really will. But why I mentioned Dita Von Teese is because she at least keeps the artform alive. But I doubt when I think about it that people will remember her sixty years from now. But they will remember Gypsy.
Female body shouldn´t be rare. look at nature, there should be a healthy ratio of males to females. when it's not, the population struggles. so making female body scarce is against our nature, i.e. it's just a social construct, which btw. brings a lot of suffering because when something you need is scarce, you become neurotic about it. Do you remember the bad guy from Mad MAx 3? He made "water" a scarcity. Do you remember how his people behaved when he tapped some water it off? Would you react the same way? No. Because you have plenty. Men behave neurotic when they don't get enough sex, and then they behave resentful, creepy and rapey. The mass media like keeping female body as something scarce, this way they can rule your minds (now they can sell all that new gadgets, cars, clothing, perfumes etc. that will make you finally f*ck). A society that lives in scarcity is easier to rule. Nobody then thinks "does my government treat me fair?", but instead "God, I need to F*CK!!!! Give me sth to f*ck!!!"
She was such an intelligent performer. And really left her audience wanting more. Like this video represents.
The first rule of showbiz, after all.
Not exactly, the audience wanted more and she gave it to them...
Her entire story is unbelievable when she was a child working along side her sister in vaudeville her mother forged numerous birth certificates to aviod the child labor laws she also never knew her real age and the reason she got into strip was because her mother had forced her into being a last minute replacement for the star stripper her mother was so determined to make one of her daughers famous. June(gypsys sister) and louise(gypsy) we terrified to mention their mother in any kind of interviews for the fear that she would sue them for money. rose hovic(mother of june and gypsy)was insane.
have you seen the film gypsy?
+lily elizabeth i preformed in the musical a couple years back
Jess Novak ahhh that's insanly cool, who did you play?x
I'd read in Gypsy's autobiography that she went after Tulsa with a gun once she found out he and June were married.:(
She couldn't have been all there.:(
Apparently Rose Thompson Hovick, Gypsy's mother, also killed several people in her lifetime. One was a woman at a lesbian boarding house who was, according to Gypsy's son, Rose's lover, who she shot and killed after she made a pass at Gypsy. It was officially ruled as a suicide, so she wasn't charged. She also pushed a hotel manager out of a window, but claimed self defense and wasn't charged, and she attempted to murder the husband of Gypsy's sister, June.
Apparently my grandfather once fixed a watch for her.
She's flat-out telling them she's often performing in body but in mind is miles away, uninterested in their titillation because of how routine it has become for her -- for how often she has performed thus-and-thus actions, because there is no end to the appetite of the hungry paying masses -- and occupying herself with thoughts both mundane and not to relieve her own boredom. Her any given audience isn't special to her as it would like to believe, but another faceless mass to play to in order to pay the bills.
And the audience is so amused and enraptured that they love her for this hard truth because of how well she delivers it.
THAT is dang impressive. Bravo, lady, bravo.
(Not to say that she didn't need to be aware of the mood of a crowd, or have to care if she interpreted it right, and have at least a little enjoyment for even some small aspect of her work in order to retain her sanity. Obviously, as with any successful performer, this is a given. But not everyone can get away with telling people to their face that it's all an act, and still get paid and admired for it!)
Actually, it’s standard in her industry and many others.
I'm reminded of the "Lily VonSchtup" song from blazing saddles.
@@sometimessnarky1642 "it’s twue, it’s twue."
Watching this video I can see why she became such a huge star. She isn't the world's greatest beauty, nor it's greatest talent, but she has personality and charisma that just shines through!
Agreed, there are few entertainers of today that do that. Sadly most of them have passed on
Yea. now I know what the big deal was. i would buy a ticket.
What personality, what charisma? All i see is a woman who did something that was taboo and prohibited and also was exploited by the opposite sex excactly for those reasons and so she did what she is doing. Nothing special, just barrier breaking.
@@iconsonscreen7291 Actually, I think she was doing a lot more than that. And she was ground breaking because of it. She was making sure that her audience didn't think they owned her. She was not to be exploited. She was educated, witty, charming and powerful. She was in charge of her body and she was happy to provide, in a small way, for appropriate compensation of course, a glimpse of it in a way that absolutely delighted people. Men and women. She was a revolutionary in the burlesque world, and you can see that here. Much tamer, I'm sure, than what she did in her ordinary routine. But you really get a sense of it, and I'm so glad I watched this. I've been a fan of Gypsy, the film for many, many years.
@@CathyKeating i didnt say she wasn't smart! One has to be smart to achieve something in life.
She and her sister, June Havoc, were both fiercely intelligent, both victims of the stage mother to end all stage mothers (Mother Rose, Mother Judy, and Mother Veronica all demanded support payments from their children). Gypsy Rose and June Havoc were friends and supporters of the arts. Considering how many of old Hollywood stage babies came to sad ends, Gypsy and June did fine.
Fascinating! Fully clothed, took her undergarments off and the crowd went nuts! Very different today!
the crowd must have been really miserable back then. :(
This was obviously a censored version of her routine, which included more bare skin. This film is from 1943, nearly ten years after the Hays Code went into effect and forbade such things.
I'll guess they were acting
Trust me this is the G rated version. You don't think she was Always like this and guys would go wild over her?
My grandmother always use to tell me, 'Men have very active imaginations, it doesn't take much." Just watch the' Piano" if you dont believe me.
I played Gypsy Rose Lee in a musical at school in 10th grade. I remember it was controversial at our school because she was a performer. I hope I did her justice!
WHY WOULD A 10TH GRADE CLASS, KIDS WHO JUST GOT OUT OF JUNIOR HIGH MIND YOU,, DO A MUSICAL INVOLVING STRIP-TEASE ?!?! HOW OLD ARE YOU??? SCREWED UP SOCIETY WE HAVE TODAY!!! ANY WOMAN WANTING A GOOD FUTURE, AND NOT A TAINTED PAST,, SHOULD KEEP HER PRIVATES,,, JUST THAT,,, ~~PRIVATE~~ YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND WILL THANK YOU,, AND SO WILL YOUR KIDS~!~!~!~
@@newmoon54 My future spouse and future children shouldn’t be judging me for my sexual promiscuity. It’s none of their business what I decide to do with my body.
@@CornerLog Amen sister. Why would your kids care who you had sex with before or after they were born?
Nobody's sex life is our business unless we are having or planning to have sex with them. Why is that so hard to grasp?
Holly cow ! Stop shouting, and get over yourself, judgemental creep.
She has a very pleasant voice.
I know, random and not the focus of the vid / her routine, but she does.
She is so witty and has the whole crowd in the palm of her hands ;)
She was fascinating! I never saw a routine like that. It was very classy. I see why she was famous! Beautiful and smart. The routine was clever
Not many people know that she was an author and playwright, her crown jewel was "The G-string Murders". She lived a short life really, passing away at 59 in 1970.
She really knew how to perform and play to the crowd
I interviewed her son (with Otto Preminger) several times and have come to love Gypsy! She was a remarkable woman and the hardest worker in the entertainment industry!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Gypsy Rose Lee! You are loved!
I was sitting with a group of military physicians at a restaurant called the Mayflower in Saigon in 1968 during the Vietnam War . In walked a statuesque woman with exceptional posture accompanied by a group of U.S. Army and ARVN brass. One of the guys recognized her as Gypsy and she came right to our table. He wanted to take her picture but she refused saying it was too dark in the restaurant. ..so she took him by the hand and brought him into the men's room and he took her picture next to the urinal. She was funny classy and unforgettable. Apparently she was next going to Thailand ...and was already suffering from breast cancer I believe at that time
*FYI:* This is a censored version of Gypsy's strip routine. It is from the 1943 film _Stage Door Canteen,_ released nearly 10 years after the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (aka Hays Code) which restricted what could and could not be shown/spoken on screen. The Code lasted until 1968, when it was replaced by the Motion Picture Association film rating system still in use today: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17. Anyway, Gypsy's costumes were often way skimpier than what was shown in the film (see below):
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Thnx! "The Night They Raided Minsky's" film background and production notes on wikipedia says they edited stock footage from burlesque into it. It is otherwise a fictionalized version of how striptease began in burlesque.
Yes I figured it was a little bit more risque than what they were showing thank you
It's sad to see that the classic playfulness of the original Burlesque has devolved into a combination of porn and freak show. Ah Gypsy, we miss ya girl!
all sex, anyway
Stage Door Canteen is a great film from the war. My wife and I watch it every year during the holidays. It reminds me of my parents. My dad was in the Navy in signals and my mother worked in Washington DC. I love the old entertainers of that era. I am old enough to remember them a bit myself as some of them were still active when I was a child and of course, many appeared in films that were played on TV.
there is nothing more sexier then a intelligent women.
Just watched her last night in "Belle of the Yukon". I've always been fascinated by her and how she made her self a star with pure determination.
Back when a celebrity could speak a complete sentence without stumbling.
And without an auto-prompter
Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles had Madeline Kahn doing "She's Tired" in a very similar light ... now I know where it came from !
Happy Birthday, Miss Lee! And thanks for the memories!
Happy Birthday, Gypsy! Thank you for being so kind and loving to this 12 year old boy back in 1964. I will remember you forever!
That's so sweet! Are you comfortable relating that story?
@@abbottkahler8634 Yes, I am.
@@EagleRockers If you have time, email me: abbottauthor@gmail.com
@@abbottkahler8634 Sorry so late to reply, I just saw your message. Do you still want to hear my GRL story?
@@EagleRockers I do
aww that was incredible thanks for post.. bless her
Earlier today my grandad said that I was related to a old actress called gypsy rose lee so I looked her up and this is what I found and OMFG
daniela growney 😂😂😂😂👌
Lucky you! OMG! She was fabulous!!!
Weather for the week end Meridian I'd
Yeah right
How are you related to her?
You are a beautiful woman Louise. I'm sorry your mother treated you and your sister badly.
I was her spotlight operator on RAS when I was a teenager.
"Oh boys I couldn't. I'd get cold." Another comment linked a photo of her real costume.
Funny always wins.
My dad saw her when he was a GI. He’s such a straight-laced normal guy,it made me laugh!
Without Gypsy Rose we wouldn't have any of the amazing Burlesque dancers today.
Dita Von Teese comes to mind! I think that it’s so much classier than strip poles.
I don’t think I had ever seen Ms. Lee live until now. What a stunning presence.
What a legend!
Thanks,she was wonderful!
She is just adorable!
She made her own costumes...
Love this Karen Abbott!!! You wrote a great book. I've got a little about Gypsy in my BEHIND THE BURLY Q.
I love your book!
As a very young boy, I used to watch 'The Gypsy Rose Lee' tv show, broadcasting from a local Boston station..
Innuendo is the sexiest thing sometimes because it lets the imagination fill in the blanks
Brilliant performer! Clearly, it was her blatantly obvious intelligence and refined sense of life that set off her stunning face and body. Any man would want her as wife and partner in life's adventures. Wow!
After her last husband she didn't want any man, she wanted a child so she picked the smartest man that she most admired, tough film director Otto Preminger and their son
Erik Lee Preminger was indeed smart, handsome, witty and so charming that after Gypsy died of cancer Preminger officially adopted him. There is no mistaking his father's looks.
This is the G version. Trust me she wasn't always in so much clothing
A song in the musical Pal Joey is an affectionate send-up of Gypsy's dual role as stripper and intellectual. Here is the song "Zip" with Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth ruclips.net/video/pwEI-hpI0dA/видео.html
Love your book Karen
What a wonderful talented performer
The "Stage door canteen" were wonderful! Any that you can get hold will be worth your time. Also "Broadway melody of [year.]"
Happy Birthday, Miss Lee!
That was adorable!
Another Happy Birthday to you, Miss Lee!
There is a song based on this routine called "Zip" by Rodgers ^ Hart. It was written for the musical "Pal Joey."
She is striking and intelligent and very witty. It seems you had to have a modicum of talent to be a stripper (fan dancer) back then. What an amazing woman.
Actually, it didn't take that much talent, Gypsy just had a lot more than any of the others.
@@emmitstewart1921 exactly. She was unusual, a novelty. Basically invented an art form on her own
"Don't you ever smile, Mr. Sparks" . . . "I'm smiling now" (!!!) ROFL, LMAO, DL!
Gypsy Rose Lee travelled with a large carnival outfit called The Royal American Shows in the early 1950s. She was featured in a side show named after her. I was about 14 or 15 at the time. My buddies and I were standing outside the show tent watching the 'barker/talker' doing his spiel. He used to pick one kid from the crowd to come up on stage and he'd ask embarrassing questions to amuse the crowd. As a result my buddies and I got in free. What a funny lady!
Great story!
that was adorable! she was lovely
Very clever! far more suggested than seen.
I forget where, but I thought I had heard years ago that Gypsy wasn't attractive.
They LIED! Lied like lying liars.
She's crazy funny, very classy, I love that dress, and has them all eating out of her hand.
HorrorFrogPrincess Yes Gypsy was attractive but combine that with her self-confidence and sense of humor? No wonder men adored her.
Bless you this day, Miss Lee!
That woman is a legend!!
Check out this movie: "The Night They Raided Minsky's" - film background and production notes on wikipedia says they edited stock footage from burlesque into it. It is otherwise a fictionalized version of how striptease began in burlesque.
True burlesque isnt meant to be just sexy...its meant to be funny!
"Oh boys I couldn't -- I'd catch cold!" -- Gypsy channeling Jane Austen's Mr. Woodhouse. 😄
This gal knew how to SELL!
Just make them wanting more...
The best merchandise recipe up to nowadays!
Joshstoph: Yes. In fact, the "Zip" number in Pal Joey was written specifically as a sort of homage-by-parody of GRL's act. In another weird twist, her own sister June -- who had left the family act years earlier -- ended up in that very play, in its original run.
Just watched a clip of Elaine Stritch doing "Zip" before this. I remember Gypsy Rose Lee on midday talk shows before the 1pm old movies on television in the 1960's in NYC. I was a little girl and I liked the way she talked. I loved Natalie Wood, so that was my first version of watching Gypsy in a movie version. Wish I had seen mama Rose played by Tyne Daly and Patti Lupone.Hear a new 2019 movie version is in the works.
Anyone knows where to find out the text of this show?
Died in 1970 aged only 59 of lung cancer
Her sister June Havoc died in 2010 aged 97
This performance can't be done today. Everyone went so far in unbaring everyone and everything that it would get booed off stage for not doing anything.
They would be mad she was even talking.
great
she was stunning
She was very charming.
Well, she entertained me that's for sure
Currently in a Gypsy production, decided to see the real thing! Her stage presence is stunning!
i love this lady!
Simply a Scene cut from the Movie. Not a recording of her stage (Nightclub) show. She was tame by all standards, and censorship of the movie really cut even that down to nothing. By today's standards this is a kid's show. Expect nothing and you cannot be disappointed.
if anyone knows where i can find the full monologue, i'd be extremely grateful
I'd like to find a lot of her monologues. If you Google "Gypsy Rose Lee monologues", you just get monologues from the musical, not her actual routines.
The classiest stripper of all time she made stripping an art
Gypsy was not only smart, she was hilarious.
'Sexy' is a frame of mind.
She's wonderful!
From the days when (the majority of) entertainers still had class, regardless of genre.
Very good and entertaining
I remember watching her talk show on tv when i was a kid.
Inspired me to become a burlesque dancer..
I saw the movie of her life ages ago when I was a kid. Someone below mention a biography or autobiography. I think I’ll get a copy.
What an amazing lady!
Happy Birthday, Gypsy Rose Lee! January 8, 1911
Her dress with those diamonds reminds me of a tree skirt my grandmother made in the 60s
💛
mrRJMGREEN he is a movie producer in theUSA, Erik Lee Preminger :)
I'm smiling now ~
She has more clothes on than an eskimo
My competition solo song for dance is “let me entertain you” from gypsy 1993 of course I don’t take any thing off
She was wonderful!!
I love this so much lol 😂 😆 😂 😆 😘💕
I saw her when she was a panelist for “I ve got a secret” or was it “what’s my line” ? Both were very popular in the day.
There was only one like her.