notsusan She was active in selling war bonds and raising money during WWII she had on a fishnet body stocking with stars afixed to the mesh and the stars could be individually removed... for a price.

She was famous because of the success of "Gypsy" on Broadway, based on the vaudeville careers of her and sister/actress June Havoc. The burlesque came later.

brian elliott You have that perfectly backwards. She was in vaudeville as a child & went into burlesque as an adolescent. Later, she wrote the memoir on which the musical Gypsy (later filmed) was based. 🌹

@gcjerryusc Well you are wrong. Natalie Wood was great in the role. Your taste is up your.....!

@gcjerryusc Well, pearls before swine.

Me too, but I thought they were candy

It is indeed. And it causes people to smile. Certainly myself, anyway.

My mom was engaged

what a sweet comment

My thoughts exactly.

I just lost it when she said that. 😆

She said that and I had to go to the comments... three comments down is all it took!😅👍🏻

I think she knew.

She was famous. Her photo was familier to audiences all over the world.

@@SymphonyBrahms Yes, that's what surprises me. The burlesque was a decidedly underground culture, actively denied recognition by the powers of the day. So yes, I think it was remarkable that Ms. Rose Lee's fame penetrated that barrier of social mores.

What a woman

@@ariochiv She was vaudeville, not burlesque, as Mama Rose always insisted. Gypsy's 'class' image elided the pecking order.

@@ariochiv well as she said herself in interviews, her strip teases were more tease than strip. She combined her intelligence into her act and left a lot of the strip to the imagination. The whole effect raised the level of what she did to some thing that appealed to a wide variety of audiences.

GRLs act was Absolutely NOT an art form!!! It was a titillating comedy performance.

@@marcietorrence5361 Ummm, comedy is one of the arts.

You can pretty much call anything art if it deals with creativity, but the average mass of people would disagree.

@@richardr8753 and what do you call a "mass of people" (majority of republikkklans) who believe obama was a muslim, q-nut conspiracies, that the jan. 6, 2021 was an "act of patriotism and defending freedom", and that joe biden is a socialist? i'd say half the country are too stupid to have an opinion.

Yes that is right, she made all the costumes herself, wrote the act, she was a very hard worker and an incredible woman and wonderful mother. You are right, she changed the form of burlesque at that time for burlesque dancers used to bump and grind their hips a lot and this was considered inappropriate at that time to many people but Gyspy Rose Lee brought in the strip tease act which meant she believed in not showing nudity but keeping the mystery of her body going by stripping slowly, with modesty, using humor and dialogue and using a tease like performance to keep it more exciting. She believed one didn't have to be naked to be a good burlesque dancer and she was right.

Quite sad, I remember her when I was a young lad in the SF bay area, when she had a daily talk show.

As did many from that era. But the cigarette companies made a fortune, so I guess that was more important.

Her sister, on the other hand, lived to be 97.

wasnt Gig and alcoholic? ive only heard pf hom in connection to elizabeth montgomery’s terrible firsthusband. about the baby sitters ..it is interesting how sexism works MALE nurses , MALE babysitters were an anomaly..but one of the boys mentioned it was mostly for boys which implies they were more like coaches or friends and that is sexist but also a cool idea

Why did gorgeous Inger Stevens commit suicide? Was she openly friends aith a stripper? That would be outrageous even by today's standards

@@marcietorrence5361 …she left no note or will and overdosed on barbiturates. She had been recently separated from her husband of nine years, film producer Ike Jones. He used some of the money to open a mental healthcare clinic in Watts, Los Angeles.

@@marcietorrence5361 : Many people were "openly friends" with Gypsy Rose Lee. She was a huge talent and didn't really even strip.

@@marcietorrence5361 Now days, an exotic dancer that makes their money in an honest way without picking up bad habits (or bad clients) is nothing to look down on. Having "odd" occupations that pay the bills is not outrageous unless you really want to clutch those pearls...

@@accomplice55 that's why it was called a "strip TEASE".

SJ Cohen - Me too. She stopped with the gloves, however. Great mystery guest!

+goldenthroat86 Ain't that the truth. Interesting name "Goldenthroat86", lol

She ask "does your sevice hs anything to do with entertainement , amusement or food " . Today , she would add: sex !

Yes and yes

@@Nicolas-zb9uw Grow up

I know it had a different meaning back that but she has no clue how right she is especially today

I would watch her show. She had her son on ;Otto Preminger was the father.

There is a great audio only recording of her talk show when Judy Garland was a guest on her short lived show. The episode was from 1965, and the two are quite hilarious together. It is very much worth listening to in its entirety.

Oh yeah the her memoirs came out like two years before the musical. There are photos of Natalie Wood and her together backstage. She went on to host her own TV show, perform for US soldiers in Vietnam and died of cancer at 59 in 1970, which is far too young.

Yes he was! Tragic ending. So sad.

He was actually just coming off an Oscar nomination for that performance.

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We're all trying to forget it! jk Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. She was very funny, but I didn't care for her singing voice.

For me, Rosalind Russell will always be Rose.

At 20:54, Arlene mentions Ethel Merman.

Other shows where the title character is not the lead character include The Wiz, Bye Bye Birdie, The Mikado, and Julius Caesar.

What a classy, sophisticated woman with a style all her own.

And two of the regular panelists rebutted the comments made on last week's episode on this channel. No, they did not find Debbie Reynolds to be annoying, and in fact thoroughly enjoyed it.

Watch that show YOU will remember it as well!!🤩😁

I believe this was the year (1959) that Debbie’s husband, Eddie Fisher, left her for Debbie’s best friend, Elizabeth Taylor. The double betrayal was a big scandal, even for Hollywood, and a lot of folks considered it a real shame so perhaps Bennet was being publicly supportive of Reynolds with his complimentary remarks.

It was a deliberate slap in the face to Gypsy R. L. who was getting too much press. They wanted Debbie Reynolds to win an award, not Gypsy

Thank you Guy Veloz - what a priceless memory!

Also one of the shows which established the teenaged Eleanor Powell as Broadway's best hoofer. Flo sure could pick 'em.

I think her first appearance was the best mystery guest ever!

I agree. She was amazing in both appearances. A remarkable woman.

WOW! ... I always wondered if it was the same guy who was the editors voice in The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman (1974-TVM) as I felt they sounded exactly alike.

and they shoot wives, don't they? LOL!

That over applause was because of the particular audience in this particular episode, I think.

Probably the marbles wasn’t lady like

But he’d sneak in to see her you can bet

He was afraid she'd swallow a marble and choke beside him

I'm sure a production about a stripper required a big name to get it off the ground.

@@kjlightbearer946 at the time her name was big enough however she really was not a singer and gypsy after all was a musical

GRL was well known for not being a good dancer and being a bad singer. Ethel Merman box-office gold and the play production was first-class despite being a low-class subject

Not being judgmental here, but she forced son Erik to watch her stip from the age of six. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/son-gypsy-rose-lee-watched-9474621 rather cringy.

I 1970 I babysat for $.50 hour. Rich kids in private school had $$$clientel

I know! Of course that was all hush hush! I'm sure she knew the truth & was probably going to write it! Really sad!

Purple Capricorn Oh yes! Especially in the Forties!

YES!!!

No

Do you look like Emma Thompson?

I don't see it.

Raising worms

I call BS. Post birth certificate

True, but the clues are very subtle. The experienced panelists can often pick up on them.

And many best selling books.

@@JDAbelRN : Also, Cerf was a co-founder of Random House (publishing).

The woman was French, so the correct pronunciation (which she herself used, naturally) is BenWAH. It's natural for us to Americanize French names (Detroit and Des Moines are prime examples), but it would be bizarre for her to do so.

he killed himself

Gone was a slang term that would be like, cool or hip

Joie Fulton - In the early days of rock & roll the music was characterized as "gone" the way "cool" is used today. I think.

That's one real gone cat.

Most of us enjoy the entire episodes.

In fairness, Dorothy Kilgallen did correct herself in the "Good night"s at the end of the show. But, as to her added remark, "I was thinking of that other movie that he's in now," I have no idea which one she could be talking about. Doris Day was the lead female in Gig Young's two films prior to ASK ANY GIRL (those two films being THE TUNNEL OF LOVE and TEACHER'S PET), and the lead female in his next film of 1959, THE STORY ON PAGE ONE, is Rita Hayworth. Nor did Debbie Reynolds co-star with Gig Young in any of his drama anthology series appearances during 1958 or 1959.

Doug w. Looked it up and got it. Creepy indeed and he seemed like perfectly normal even charming guy

Chang Anita Most people with mental disorders or demons look perfectly normal. What else are they supposed to look like? I worked in various psychiatric facility for 5 years. I remember Gig Young from my childhood. Even before his killings it was well known that he had demons. Living at a time when there were virtually no medications, compared to today (2018) they were very hard to treat. Maybe electroshock, lithium (nasty side effects, etc.) were the order of the day. Most afflicted took to self medication with alcohol. It was a living hell for the poor souls.

BLAIR M Schirmer There was little doubt that Gig Young had a lifetime of demons which he couldn't get effective treatment for. I grew up in the '60s and his ongoing psychiatric problems and history thereof were no secret whatsoever. Even the newspapers entertainment sections no longer paid attention to it after a while since there was no secret. I felt great sorrow, and still do, for his wife as she surely loved him enough to stay with him and try to obviate the demons and to give him a quality of life once more. No one was surprised really at his way of solving his problem, although why he killed his wife too no one knows. In the end, suicide under his conditions is the ultimate form of protecting oneself from oneself. Today, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications are large money makers. Seems like half the U.S. is on one anti-depressant or another. Alleged? It was approximately a 99% lock that he did the deed. As I said, I was born in the late '50s and grew up to hearing about his condition throughout the '60s. Also, what motivation would someone else have to perpetrate this? As for him not seeming troubled, remember that actors are the very best at hiding such conditions.

Doug w. Even creepier is that Dorothy Kilgalin died under mysterious circumstances.

@MrSting17 way too many Hollywood stars took to the bottle. Maybe they thought it would get them through tough times. Unfortunately it took them down a rocky road. There are better ways! Try praying!

Many years ago therapists used to have people try to speak clearly despite having marbles in their mouth. Eliza Doolittle had to recite a passage this way. She swallowed one & Henry Higgins put more in her mouth.

bookwoman53 The classic example is the ancient Greek orator Demosthenes, who practiced speaking with pebbles in his mouth to overcome a stammer, according to Plutarch.

Neil Midkiff I’ve heard about that. It doesn’t look easy though. Very easy to swallow one or choke.

He was afraid of the covid.

Clifford Drive

Arlene, love...not Darlene

Extraordinary comment.

Inbreeding?

@@QuadMochaMatti In what?

They had probably spent a few minutes in the green room with Gypsy Rose Lee!

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