Stiff of the Week: Gypsy Rose Lee

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly"
~Gypsy Rose Lee

Full Name:
Rose Louise Hovick

DOB/DOD:
Feb. 9, 1914-Apr. 26, 1970
Burial:
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Pinecrest Plot, Lot 1087, Grave 8. Across from Utopia Plot


Claim to Fame:
She was an American actress, burlesque entertainer, and writer whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.Gypsy Rose Lee died of cancer in Los Angeles in 1970.