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Illustration Credits

i.1
Gypsy Rose Lee as “Hard-boiled Rose”: Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/© Getty Images

1
“City of Light” diorama at the 1939–1940 World’s Fair: © Bettmann/CORBIS.

1.1
Rose Thompson Hovick: © Erik L. Preminger.

2.1
Washington State certificate of birth, record number 193, file number 1388, Washington State Department of Health.

3.1
Rivington Street on the Lower East Side: Underwood & Underwood/© CORBIS.

4.1
Michael Todd: from a souvenir program of
Star and Garter;
author’s collection.

5.1
Baby June in her toe shoes: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

5.2
Baby June
en pointe:
courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

6.1
Performer at the Folies Bergère: author’s collection.

6.2
Gypsy Rose Lee writing backstage: George Skadding/Time & Life Pictures/© Getty Images.

8.1
Baby June and Rose Louise: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

8.2
Master Laddie Kenneth, Louise, June, NeeNee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

8.3
June, Gordon, Louise, NeeNee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

8.4
June Havoc in
Pal Joey:
courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

10.1
Morton, Billy, and Herbert Minsky: © Bettmann/CORBIS.

10.2
Minsky “Rosebuds” on the runway: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.

11.1
Dainty June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

12.1
Dainty June and Co. marquee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

12.2
Advertisement for Dainty June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

13.1
Star and Garter
souvenir program: author’s collection.

14.1
National Winter Garden finale: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.

14.2
Carrie Finnell: from the
Star and Garter
souvenir program; author’s collection.

15.1
Gypsy Rose Lee on her wedding day: © Erik L. Preminger.

15.2
Dainty June and Her Newsboy Songsters: © Erik L. Preminger.

16.1
Louise at fourteen: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

16.2
Louise, “Bobby Reed,” June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

16.3
Gypsy, Mike Todd, George S. Kaufman: author’s collection.

17.1
Mademoiselle Fifi: courtesy of the Special Collections Department, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine at Orono.

18.1
Minsky “Rosebuds” in court: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.

22.1
Mayor Jimmy Walker and Betty Compton: New York
Daily News/©
Getty Images.

23.1
Rose Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee: © Erik L. Preminger.

25.1
Minsky’s Republic: New York
Daily News/©
Getty Images.

26.1
Gypsy at the Republic: Author’s collection.

27.1
Georgia Sothern: from the
Star and Garter
souvenir program; author’s collection.

29.1
Rose Thompson Hovick’s grave: courtesy of Carolyn Quinn.

33.1
Death of Ginny Augustin: courtesy of Carolyn Quinn.

34.1
Gypsy and June, 1959: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

35.1
Mayor La Guardia with Abbott and Costello: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.

35.2
Minsky “Rosebuds” and comic: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.

36.1
June and Gypsy, 1964: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.

36.2
Michael Todd and Gypsy at the World’s Fair: Eliot Elisofon archive, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K
AREN
A
BBOTT
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of
Sin in the Second City
. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two African Grey parrots who do a mean Ethel Merman. Visit her online at
www.KarenAbbott.net
.

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