Rose Evangeline Hovick was an American talent manager best known as the mother of two famous performing daughters: burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee and actress and dancer June Havoc. Her career as her daughters' manager is dramatized in the musical Gypsy.
Ellen June, Rose Louise (Gypsy), and mother Rose Hovick 1925 passport photo
Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, actress, author, playwright and vedette famous for her striptease act. Her 1957 memoir was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy.
Lee in 1956
Gypsy Rose Lee in Los Angeles, c. 1937
Gypsy Rose Lee in 1956
Grave of Gypsy Rose Lee at Inglewood Park Cemetery (with wrong year of birth)