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HarveyDarkey

(9,077 posts) 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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Naked Ambition: Top 10 Memorable Movie Strippers [View all] HarveyDarkey Jul 2012 OP

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