{"product_id":"gypsy-gypsy-rose-lee","title":"Gypsy - A Memoir: Gypsy Rose Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan id=\"freeText6116281415424617652\"\u003eThis memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003econtains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. By turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920s America on the vaudeville circuit through to her rise to stardom as The \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eQueen of Burlesque\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ein 1930s New York - where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king. Her story features outrageous characters - among them Broadway’s funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon - who bears an intriguing resemblance to Al Capone - who paid for her to have her teeth fixed; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own version of the Golden Rule: “Do unto others … before they do you.”\u003c\/span\u003e And here's a tale from her revue days: The manager had advertised the show as 'fifty beautiful girls, 45 glamorous costumes... Lee says, \"And I was the one that convinced the customers that I was the other five girls!\" With black and white photographs - and here's what some other readers thought: https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/143890.Gypsy?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=mqwbhqxEnt\u0026amp;rank=1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41781425635406,"sku":"SR1\/3\/G-GRL","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/0508\/3214\/files\/0241.jpg?v=1725483046","url":"https:\/\/cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au\/products\/gypsy-gypsy-rose-lee","provider":"Cosmic Cauldron Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}