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Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Anita Ekberg plays the gorgeous and tortured dancer with the Great Dane named Devil, who, after being nearly attacked by a man with a knife, is put into an asylum under the obsessive care of psychiatrist Dr. Greenwood (Harry Townes). When the girl begins to show signs of improvement, the psychiatrist assumes her care on the outside so she can resume her dancing career. The proprietor (Gypsy Rose Lee) of El Madhouse, a tawdry nightclub, hires the girl...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight.
Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The over-the hill gang: this light-hearted western concerns a corrupt mayor trying to oust his opponent from the race while a group of retired Texas Rangers tries to restore order and democracy to the town.
The shooting: a tale of mystery and intrigue, this film concerns a miner, a young woman, and a gunslinger.
Vengeance valley: this film tells the story of an adopted rancher's son who has spent his life covering up for his good-for-nothing brother....
9) Gypsy
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"Bette Midler stars as the world's most relentless stage mother, who lovingly but unremittingly drives her two daughters, June and Louise, and their small rag-tag vaudeville troupe across America from theater to theater, in search of success. This movie musical extravaganza brings the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee to life though spectacular production and unforgettable songs..."--Container.
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings...
America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A pair of sister child stars coming from a Vaudeville family in the Jazz Age and maturing in the Depression, driven by the most ferocious of stage mothers, Dainty June and Louise Hovick chose different paths to fame--June as a "legit" actress, while Louise became Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who understood how to sell sexy without actually showing sex. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, author Karen...
13) Gypsy
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
16) Gypsy
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Mama Rose is the ultimate vaudeville stage mother, whose blind ambition for her two daughters forces one to desert her and the other to emerge as the world's most famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Splendor in the grass: Warren Beatty made his film debut in this story of a girl (Natalie Wood) whose love for a local boy and pressure to be a "good girl" from her parents drives her to madness. The film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
Gypsy: The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother.
Sex and the single girl: A sex farce very loosely based on Sex and...
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