ITV Perspectives - Gypsy Rose Lee: The Queen of Burlesque (2013)

Paul O'Grady reveals the effect that a legendary striptease artist had on him as he explores the life of the queen of American burlesque, Gypsy Rose Lee. Watching the 1962 film Gypsy, starring Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood, ignited Paul's passion for the glamorous entertainer who had taken Broadway by storm with her tease and tassels. Now he travels to Broadway to discover more about the woman behind the legend from the people who knew her best: her son, Erik Preminger and the world famous composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy.

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