Gypsy

Mervyn LeRoy's involving musical recounting the rise to fame of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and her relationship with her ambitious mother, who was determined to make stars of both her daughters. When the older girl escapes the vaudeville circuit by getting married, the spotlight is thrown on her younger sister - but the only place she can find work is in a burlesque house, where the established strippers help her make it to the top. Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace and Betty Bruce star. Stephen Sondheim penned the lyrics for the Julie Styne score, which includes famed numbers Everything's Coming Up Roses, Let Me Entertain You and Small World