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Illustration Credits
i.1 Gypsy Rose Lee as “Hard-boiled Rose”: Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/© Getty Images
1 “City of Light” diorama at the 1939–1940 World’s Fair: © Bettmann/CORBIS.
1.1 Rose Thompson Hovick: © Erik L. Preminger.
2.1 Washington State certificate of birth, record number 193, file number 1388, Washington State Department of Health.
3.1 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side: Underwood & Underwood/© CORBIS.
4.1 Michael Todd: from a souvenir program of Star and Garter; author’s collection.
5.1 Baby June in her toe shoes: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
5.2 Baby June en pointe: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
6.1 Performer at the Folies Bergère: author’s collection.
6.2 Gypsy Rose Lee writing backstage: George Skadding/Time & Life Pictures/© Getty Images.
8.1 Baby June and Rose Louise: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
8.2 Master Laddie Kenneth, Louise, June, NeeNee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
8.3 June, Gordon, Louise, NeeNee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
8.4 June Havoc in Pal Joey: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
10.1 Morton, Billy, and Herbert Minsky: © Bettmann/CORBIS.
10.2 Minsky “Rosebuds” on the runway: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.
11.1 Dainty June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
12.1 Dainty June and Co. marquee: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
12.2 Advertisement for Dainty June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
13.1 Star and Garter souvenir program: author’s collection.
14.1 National Winter Garden finale: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.
14.2 Carrie Finnell: from the Star and Garter souvenir program; author’s collection.
15.1 Gypsy Rose Lee on her wedding day: © Erik L. Preminger.
15.2 Dainty June and Her Newsboy Songsters: © Erik L. Preminger.
16.1 Louise at fourteen: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
16.2 Louise, “Bobby Reed,” June: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
16.3 Gypsy, Mike Todd, George S. Kaufman: author’s collection.
17.1 Mademoiselle Fifi: courtesy of the Special Collections Department, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine at Orono.
18.1 Minsky “Rosebuds” in court: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.
22.1 Mayor Jimmy Walker and Betty Compton: New York Daily News/© Getty Images.
23.1 Rose Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee: © Erik L. Preminger.
25.1 Minsky’s Republic: New York Daily News/© Getty Images.
26.1 Gypsy
at the Republic: Author’s collection.
27.1 Georgia Sothern: from the Star and Garter souvenir program; author’s collection.
29.1 Rose Thompson Hovick’s grave: courtesy of Carolyn Quinn.
33.1 Death of Ginny Augustin: courtesy of Carolyn Quinn.
34.1 Gypsy and June, 1959: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
35.1 Mayor La Guardia with Abbott and Costello: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.
35.2 Minsky “Rosebuds” and comic: courtesy of Ava Minsky Foxman.
36.1 June and Gypsy, 1964: courtesy of June Havoc and Tana Sibilio.
36.2 Michael Todd and Gypsy at the World’s Fair: Eliot Elisofon archive, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KAREN ABBOTT is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City. A native of Philadelphia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two African Grey parrots who do a mean Ethel Merman. Visit her online at www.KarenAbbott.net.
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