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Rose Evangeline Hovick (née Thompson; August 31, 1890 – January 28, 1954) 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 .
Apr 8, 2004 · As Gypsy Rose Lee, she became famous in burlesque as a classy and witty strip tease artist. She, her little sister June (later known as June Havoc, 1912?-2010), and her monstrous stage mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, passed into show biz legend when her bestselling 1957 memoir, Gypsy, became a Broadway smash.
Oct 11, 2013 · I researched Rose Thompson Hovick's story with one thought in mind: to find out the truth about this fascinating, and often maligned or misunderstood, stage mother who became a theatrical legend after she had passed away in 1954.
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Jul 20, 2012 · By Felicia R. Lee. Rose Thompson Hovick, whose offspring included Gypsy Rose Lee, the burlesque queen, and June Havoc, the actress, is remembered as the ultimate stage mother thanks to the...
Carolyn Quinn's \"Mama Rose's Turn\" reveals the true story of Rose Thompson Hovick, who led a troupe of performing children in the 1920s and 1930s. The book challenges the fictionalized portrayal of Hovick in the musical Gypsy by Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne.
Tall olaf johann hovick went by the americanized nickname Jack. He was born on August 6, 1886, in the town of Crookston, Minnesota, located on the opposite side of the state from Farmington, near the North Dakota border and close to Rose’s birthplace of Wahpeton. Both Jack and Rose had moved to Seattle when they were young children.
Oct 24, 2013 · Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as 'The Stage Mother from Hell' after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable....
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