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HarveyDarkey

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:36 AM Jul 2012

Naked Ambition: Top 10 Memorable Movie Strippers [View all]

Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy

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Played by: Natalie Wood

The eldest of two daughters of a domineering stage mom (played by a terrific Rosalind Russell), Louise Hovick is awkward and shy. But when her younger sister June—a talented vaudeville performer—elopes with a dancer, her mother focuses her energies on making Louise a star, even if that means dancing in a burlesque joint. It turns out that the sweet young lady possesses a real talent on stage—taking the stage name Gypsy Rose Lee, Louise becomes a hugely successful performer. Wood, a year after her memorable turn in West Side Story, is great here: she lets us see that beneath the verve and vitality of her stage persona are great reservoirs of sadness and desperation.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/29/naked-ambition-top-10-memorable-movie-strippers/?iid=ent-article-populist-widget#gypsy-rose-lee-gypsy

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Demi Moore. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #1
For me it would be Valerie Perrine HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #2
Well, "Striptease" was good, but then there was "Showgirls" (not a Demi Moore flick). HopeHoops Jul 2012 #3
while Moore had the looks to play the part NewJeffCT Jul 2012 #28
None of that bothered me. I liked the movie and she was definitely hot. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #29
It has to be Valerie P. She played Lenny Bruce's hifiguy Jul 2012 #4
That's the second movie on the list HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #5
I was really enjoying her performance in "Lenny" until my wife pointed out Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #6
Well that will take the puffer out of the fish! HopeHoops Jul 2012 #21
Yes indeed! Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #23
There's no better way to deflate the unit. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #24
Similar happened to me once NewJeffCT Jul 2012 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author lastlib Jul 2012 #19
YES!!! lastlib Jul 2012 #20
Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page jakeXT Jul 2012 #7
That was not on the list. Definitely worthy of consideration. HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #9
Jennifer Beals "Flashdance". ohiosmith Jul 2012 #8
Surprisingly not on the list HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #10
That's got to be the world's strangest strip club Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #22
I didn't know that the film was based on a real story of Maureen Marder and she only got $2300 jakeXT Jul 2012 #26
It doesn't bother me in the least that Salma Hayek is a pretty lousy actress Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #11
That was one of the movies I'd never heard of HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #13
It opened on 2000 screens jakeXT Jul 2012 #18
Joanne Woodward in "The Stripper" Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #12
Computer is too slow to go through list JonLP24 Jul 2012 #14
Mary Steenburgen won an Oscar playing Lynda Dummar CBGLuthier Jul 2012 #15
Not on the list, and I've never seen that movie. HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 #16
Sherilyn Fenn in "Ruby" Doc_Technical Jul 2012 #17
Marisa Tomei in 'The Wrestler' (nt) pokerfan Jul 2012 #25
Another List, strange jakeXT Jul 2012 #27
Harrumph. grntuscarora Jul 2012 #31
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