page_title: Gypsy Rose Lee
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Gypsy Rose Lee / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Gypsy Rose Lee's star on Hollywood walk of fame
context_page_description: Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer and vedette famous for her striptease act. Also an actress, author, and playwright, her 1957 memoir was adapted into the 1959 stage musical Gypsy.
context_section_description: The song "Zip" from the musical Pal Joey, written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, imagines the thoughts and musings that go through Gypsy Rose Lee's mind while she strips onstage as recounted by way of an interviewer who sings of their encounter with Miss Lee as being "the greatest achievement" they'd had. Elaine Stritch regularly performed this song (as the interviewer) for many years.
  Punk band The Distillers wrote "Gypsy Rose Lee", a song for their debut album in 2000.
  In 1973, Tony Orlando and Dawn recorded "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose" by W. M. Irwin Levine & L. Russell Brown. (The song refers to Lee's profession, but is about a fictional character with a similar name.)
  In January 2012, Seattle Theater Writers (a group of arts critics for various publications) awarded the first Gypsy Rose Lee Awards, celebrating excellence in local theatre.
caption: Lee's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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