Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Preminger, Erik Lee
2. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.
3. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970
4. Erik Preminger Productions.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (70 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Documentary on entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, compiled and presented by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. Consists of excerpts from home movies, archival newsreels, kinescopes, and other motion pictures as well as still photos. Includes footage from her touring stage act, her performances at the New York World's Fair of 1939-40, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, guest appearances on various television programs, clips from Gypsy's own TV talk show, and footage of Gypsy entertaining American soldiers in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Includes images of Gypsy with her family, including her mother Rose Thompson and sister June Havoc, associates such as producer Mike Todd, and home movie footage taken backstage at the original Broadway production of Gypsy in 1959.

Series statement

1. Gypsy Rose Lee video archive

Alternative title

1. Gypsy Rose Lee's home movies
2. Gypsy Rose Lee home movies

Subject

1. Documentaries and factual works
2. Stripteasers
3. Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969 > Ziegfeld follies of 1936
4. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 > Friends and associates
5. Havoc, June > Family
6. Home movies and video
7. Styne, Jule, 1905-1994 > Gypsy
8. Preminger, Erik Lee > Family
9. Entertainers > United States > 20th century
10. Gypsy Rose Lee (Television program)
11. Todd, Mike, 1909-1958
12. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
13. Thompson, Rose > Family
14. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 > Family
15. Burlesque (Theater)
16. New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Documentaries and factual works.
2. Home movies and video.

Call number

1. NCOX 2699

Note

1. Persons seen briefly in archival footage include Edward R. Murrow, Hugh Downs, Rags Ragland, Bobby Clark, Fanny Brice, Abbott & Costello, Otto Preminger, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Ethel Merman, Paul Lynde, Judy Garland, Liberace, Woody Allen, Richard Deacon, and Eartha Kitt.
2. This version of 'Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies' features a spoken introduction and narration by Erik Lee Preminger, delivered at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, Calif., in 1998, and also includes a question and answer session with the audience conducted by Preminger after the film. A different edit of this presentation, called version #1, is available on NCOX 2698. That version mutes the "live" in-house audio track of crowd response heard on this one, and features narration by Preminger recorded at a later date. The Q&A session for version #2, on this disc, has been edited.

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer (note)

1. Featuring Gypsy Rose Lee.
2. Host and narrator, Erik Lee Preminger.

Event (note)

1. Material compiled in the 1990s. Screened by Erik Lee Preminger at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, Calif., 1998.

Title

1. Gypsy Rose Lee: the home movies (version #2) [videorecording] / [Produced by] Erik Preminger Productions.

Imprint

1. c1998, 2009.

Series

1. Gypsy Rose Lee video archive

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Cast

1. Featuring Gypsy Rose Lee.
2. Host and narrator, Erik Lee Preminger.

Event

1. Material compiled in the 1990s. Screened by Erik Lee Preminger at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, Calif., 1998.

Local note

1. Gift of Erik Lee Preminger.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Preminger, Erik Lee, host.
2. Preminger, Erik Lee, narrator.
3. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970.
4. Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970, performer.
5. Erik Preminger Productions.
6. Preminger, Erik Lee, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2699