70 years ago this week, from the June 6, 1949 feature: “GYPSY JOINS THE CARNY.”
70 years ago this week, from the June 6, 1949 feature: “GYPSY JOINS THE CARNY.” According to LIFE: “ "I’m probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra,” announced Gypsy Rose Lee recently, “and I don’t have to stand for some of the stuff she had to.” Confidently taking her place among history’s great ladies, Gypsy has for the first time in her life gone outdoors professionally. At Memphis, Tenn. last month she began a six-months’ tour with the world’s largest carnival, The Royal American Shows. For a minimum guarantee of $10,000 a week, plus a fat percentage of gross above that, Gypsy will do her celebrated strip tease on the “carny” route all across the country to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.“ The image featured here opened the story. (George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #GypsyRoseLee #LIFElegends https://www.instagram.com/p/ByP6pmcjMAh/?igshid=ade16rngnlvp -- source link
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