Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
the 1962 film version starring Rosalind Russell and the 1993 TV movie featuring Bette Midler — both mostly forgettable. Gypsy, suggested by the memoirs of burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee ...