A revealing look at Gypsy Rose Lee

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Gypsy Rose Lee was one of America's legendary entertainers. On this 100th anniversary of her birth, you may wonder just what makes her legacy endure. Rita Braver can explain:

In 1943 she played herself in "Stage Door Canteen."
By then she was famous: The beautiful and brainy stripper who became an international personality.
Above all, she was her own creation. Even her name was invented. She grew up as Rose Louise Hovik.

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