by Karen Abbott
14 “You remind me so much”: Author’s interview with Erik Preminger, November 2009.
15 Strangled her: Quoted in Shteir, Striptease, 161.
16 “stand the noise”: June Havoc, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
17 “June, Eva”: Author’s interview with June Havoc, June 2008.
18 “Darling,” she whispered: Author’s interview with Kaye Ballard, September 2008.
19 “Some things are just”: Author’s interview with June Havoc, June 2008.
20 “pick up an advantage”: June Havoc, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
21 “climbed out of the slime”: Ibid.
22 “There came a day”: Daily Herald (suburban Chicago), March 16, 1995.
23 “I wouldn’t take anything”: Author’s interview with Erik Preminger, November 2009.
24 “What’s the emergency?”: June Havoc, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
25 “June,” she complained: Ibid.
26 “Listen to me sing”: Ibid.
27 “Boy, you’re going to make”: Ibid.
28 “June,” she says: Ibid.
29 “I have cancer”: Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News, February 3, 1970.
30 recipes for French-fried: The New York Times, January 23, 1966.
31 “How to Create a Compost Pile”: Erik Preminger, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
32 “I won’t check it”: Ibid.
33 “Darling,” she told Erik: Author’s interview with Kaye Ballard, September 2008.
34 “magic gifts of enthusiasm”: The New York Times, May 10, 1970.
35 “scheming little bitch”: Preminger, 215.
36 “Love,” she told him: Ibid.
37 “I’ve decided not to tell you”: Ibid., 238.
38 “Darling, this is a delicacy”: Author’s interview with Kaye Ballard, September 2008.
39 “This is for my animals”: Ibid.
40 billed CBS for the damage: Frankel, 221.
41 “He said would count”: Entry for January 29, 1959, Series II, Box 12, Folder 1, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRTD.
42 “When I look”: Preminger, 266.
43 “I’m going to beat this”: Ibid.
44 June leans on the back of the scale: June Havoc, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
45 she douses herself with perfume: Preminger, 264.
CHAPTER 37: NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR, 1940
1 performing a strip to benefit: The New York Times, May 10, 1940.
2 “I guess my Fourteenth Street”: John Richmond, “Gypsy Rose Lee, Striptease Intellectual,” American Mercury, January 1941.
3 “When I was a little girl”: Gypsy Rose Lee scrapbooks, 1938, Reel 2, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRTD.
4 “I want to do something serious”: Newark Ledger, August 17, 1939.
5 “Jane Hovick”: Ibid.
6 “I hope he’s finally found”: Erik Preminger, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
7 “I hope the son of a bitch”: Ibid.
8 “greatest no-talent queens”: Richard E. Lauterbach, “Gypsy Rose Lee: She Combines a Public Body with a Private Mind,” Life, December 14, 1942.
9 in every photograph they take together: Series IX, Box 75, Folder 1, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRTD.
10 “So, basically, you want to know”: National Police Gazette, August–September 1940.
11 “Oh, darling, you look so sweet”: Erik Preminger, interview with Laura Jacobs, 2002.
12 “Every slight smile”: Blackwell, 47.
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