An edition of Mama Rose's turn (2013)

Mama Rose's turn

the true story of America's most notorious stage mother

  • 2 Want to read
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 2 Want to read

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
April 11, 2023 | History
An edition of Mama Rose's turn (2013)

Mama Rose's turn

the true story of America's most notorious stage mother

  • 2 Want to read

"Hers is the show business saga you think you already know--but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Yet the musical was 75 percent fictionalized by playwright Arthur Laurents and condensed for the stage. Rose's full story is even more striking.Born fearless on the North Dakota prairie in 1892, Rose Thompson had a kind father and a gallivanting mother who sold lacy finery to prostitutes. She became an unhappy teenage bride whose marriage yielded two entrancing daughters, Louise and June. When June was discovered to be a child prodigy in ballet, capable of dancing en pointe by the age of three, Rose, without benefit of any theatrical training, set out to create onstage opportunities for her magical baby girl--and succeeded.Rose followed her own star and created two more in dramatic and colorful style: "Baby June" became a child headliner in vaudeville, and Louise grew up to be the well-known burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. The rest of Mama Rose's remarkable story included love affairs with both men and women, the operation of a "lesbian pick-up joint" where she sold homemade bathtub gin, wild attempts to extort money from Gypsy and June, two stints as a chicken farmer, and three allegations of cold-blooded murder--all of which was deemed unfit for the script of Gypsy. Here, at last, is the rollicking, wild saga that never made it to the stage"--

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
311

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: Mama Rose's Turn
Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
2013, University Press of Mississippi
in English
Cover of: Mama Rose's Turn
Mama Rose's Turn: the True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
2013, University Press of Mississippi
in English
Cover of: Mama Rose's Turn
Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
2013, University Press of Mississippi
in English
Cover of: Mama Rose's turn
Mama Rose's turn: the true story of America's most notorious stage mother
2013, University Press of Mississippi
in English
Cover of: Mama Rose's Turn
Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
2013, University Press of Mississippi
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-306) and index.

Published in
Jackson

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.02/8092, B
Library of Congress
PN2287.L29 Q56 2013, PN2287.L29, PN2287.L29Q56 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 311 p., [26] p. of plates
Number of pages
311

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26918501M
ISBN 10
1617038539
ISBN 13
9781617038532
LCCN
2013015120, 2013023581
OCLC/WorldCat
837957537

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
April 11, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
November 14, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
August 22, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
May 23, 2019 Created by MARC Bot import new book