What was the stage name of American ecdysiast Rose Louise Hovick (1911- 1970)?
Rose Thompson Hovick Rose Thompson Hovick Rose Evangeline Hovick (née Thompson; August 31, 1890 – January 28, 1954) was the mother of two famous performing daughters: burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee and actress and dancer June Havoc. Her career as her daughters' manager is dramatized in the musical "Gypsy". Rose Evangeline Thompson was born in Wahpeton, North Dakota, in 1890, the daughter of Anna (née Egle) and Charles J. Thompson. Her maternal grandparents were German. Rose Thompson married her first husband, Jack Hovick, when she was a teenager. She gave birth to Rose Louise Hovick on January 8, 1911, in Seattle, Washington, and
Rose Thompson Hovick incidents from Thompson Hovick's life. One is to an unidentified "hotel manager" whom Thompson Hovick pushed out a window to his death. She claimed self-defense and was not charged. She also tried to shoot Bobby Reed, the young man who eloped with Baby June in 1928, in a police station after cops found him and brought him to the station house. A police officer had told the two to make their peace. Reed approached with his hand extended, and Thompson Hovick withdrew a concealed gun and aimed it at Reed, but the safety was still on and no bullets were