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Apr 8, 2004 · The mother, Rose Thompson Hovick, was a teenaged bride fresh from a convent school when she married Jack Olaf Hovick. At 19, she gave birth to the 12-pound Rose Louise on January 8, 1911, at 4314 Frontenac Street in West Seattle.
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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.
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (February 9, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American actress, burlesque entertainer, and writer, whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film, Gypsy.
Mar 1, 2003 · Rose Hovick—mother of Gypsy and June, and the model for Madam Rose—had died in 1954, but not speechless. She went out like something in Sophocles, gripping Gypsy to her as she lay on her...
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.
Jan 21, 2011 · The pieces, which all ran in 1943, focus on her childhood years, during which she and her sister, June, performed a travelling show under the guidance of their divorced mother, Rose Thompson...
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Oct 24, 2013 · Author Carolyn Quinn reveals the woman behind the legend, juxtaposing the facts of her life with the fictional accounts portrayed in Gypsy. Born fearless on the North Dakota prairie in 1892, Rose...
