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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Male Supporting Performance Laurel Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Female Musical Performance Laurel Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Best Motion Picture Director Golden Globes [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture - Musical Golden Globes [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1963] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Costume Design, Color Academy Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1963] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryThis Stephen Sondheim/Jules Styne/Arthur Laurents musical comedy Gypsy had been a Broadway smash with Ethel Merman in the lead. Based on the autobiography of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, it centers on the antics of Mama Rose (here played by Rosa... TaglineAll The Heart and Happiness of The Broadway Play ...The Girl Who Became The Greatest Show In Show Business The Magnificent Musical Where "Everything`s Coming Up Roses." Let this tuneful Broadway classic entertain you. DiscographySinglesLittle Lamb Broadway Together, Wherever We Go Mr. Goldstone, I Love You All I Need Is The Girl Rose`s Turn You Gotta Have A Gimmick Everything`s Coming Up Roses If Momma Was Married Small World Some People Let Me Entertain You |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Rose Hovick: You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister`s the actress, mother. And I`m *not* a cheap stripper. I`m the highest-paid in the business.
Rose Hovick: You won`t be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I`ll be *dead*.
Rose Hovick: [on remarrying] After three husbands, it takes a lot of butter to get you back in the frying pan.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I`m a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I`m going! I`m not staying in burlesque! I`m moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I`m enjoying it. I`m having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I`ll be damned if you`re gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don`t, you can just clear out now!
Rose Hovick: Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here`s Rose!
Baby June: Hello, everybody. My name is June. What`s yours?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.
Rose Hovick: Think so?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.
Rose Hovick: If I could`ve been, I would`ve been. And that`s show business.Trivia In the original play, June elopes with Tulsa. In the film, she elopes with the otherwise unknown Jerry. While this gave Tulsa (Paul Wallace) an additional final scene with Louise, the substitution otherwise seems inexplicable. During the rehearsals for "GYPSY", Mervyn LeRoy was not happy with the girl that he had cast to play "Dainty June". (This was before Ann Jillian was cast.) He thought that the actress was not as good of a dancer or singer as Morgan Brittany, who played "Baby June". He tried to make Suzanne look old enough to play "Dainty June" by having Orry-Kelly design older clothes with padding and having her wear high heels, but the transformation didn`t work, she still looked too young to play opposite Natalie Wood, so another casting session brought the role to Ann Jillian. Ann was not really a dancer but her voice was spectacular and Mervyn felt that she made a more believable older June. One of the many posters hanging on Tessie Tura`s dressing room wall is an Al Hirschfeld drawing of Ethel Merman, who created the role of Rose in the Broadway musical version of "Gypsy". Gypsy opened at the Broadway Theater on May 21, 1959 and ran for 702 performances starring Ethel Merman and Jack Klugman. On the DVD from Warner Home Video, two Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim numbers cut from the movie have been included as bonuses: the delightful buddy song, "Together Wherever We Go," performed by Rosalind Russell (dubbed by Lisa Kirk), Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, along with a Russell-Malden duet of the cozy "You`ll Never Get Away From Me." In the release print, this duet was replaced by a shorter solo version by Miss Russell (dubbed by Miss Kirk). Although Rosalind Russell`s character is always referred to as "Mama Rose" in reviews and discussions of this film, the character is never addressed that way by anyone in the movie; the closest anyone comes is "Madame Rose". Before the decision was made to dub most of her vocals, Rosalind Russell attempted to do her own singing. The highly unsatisfactory results can be heard as an extra feature on the soundtrack CD. After Ethel Merman`s death, a tape of the Russell recordings was found in a box in Merman`s closet. Merman, who was infuriated that she`d not been cast in the film, evidently had retained this copy of the Russell vocals as a strange and somewhat vengeful consolation prize.
Morgan Brittany`s first feature film. In the film, the character of Herbie appears early as "Uncle Jocko". This doubling does not exist in the original musical but was done, presumably, to get Mr. Malden on screen earlier. During the filming of this movie, Rosalind Russell stuck the hat pin through her head. However when the scene was over she passed out. This is noticeable at the end of the "Some People" when she sings "Well, they can stay and rot!" When she takes the plaque, you can clearly see the other end of the hat pin doesn`t stick out. The real Gypsy Rose Lee visited the set and gave Natalie Wood some tips on her stripping routines. The stage team had hoped that Warner would cast Judy Garland as Mama Rose and Ann-Margret as Gypsy. The two stars had heavy scheduling conflicts, so the production team passed on both. Rose Marie was considered for the singing voice doubles for Rose. Veteran songwriter Jule Styne, who composed the songs for "Gypsy," can be seen during the opening credits leading the orchestra in the overture.
Most of Rosalind Russell`s songs were dubbed by Lisa Kirk. However, Russell`s voice can be heard in "Mr. Goldstone," the reprise of "Small World," and parts of "Rose`s Turn" and the cut "Together Wherever We Go".
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