June elaborated more about her relationship with her sister in her second autobiography, "More Havoc" in 1980. Ms. Havoc died peacefully on March 28, 2010, at her home in Stamford, Connecticut of natural causes. She was 97 years young.
In “Gypsy” — whose book, by Arthur Laurents, was based on a memoir by her sister, the strip-tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee — the adorable, pampered June (by then known as Dainty June, having outgrown the baby billing) quits show business to elope with one of the boys in her act and is never heard from again.
Actress and writer June Havoc, whose childhood in vaudeville as Baby June was immortalized in the musical "Gypsy," died in Stamford at age 97, her publicist said Monday. Havoc, the younger sister of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, died Sunday of natural causes at her home in Stamford.
Trivia. "Baby" June Havoc was very unhappy over the content of her sister Gypsy Rose Lee's musical memoir "Gypsy," which became a monstrous hit on Broadway in the 1950s. The estrangement between the two lasted over a decade and only ended when Gypsy told June she was dying of cancer and wanted to make amends.
June, A flat to D, the older version of June. Plays approx 15 - 16 years old: Pretty, talented and frustrated with her mom's domination. Louise, C# to Eb, plays approx 17-18; the older version of Louise: Shy and loyal. At her mom's prodding, she becomes the famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee, went down in theatrical history as "The Stage Mother from Hell" after her immortalization on Broadway in Gypsy: A Musical Fable.
"It is possible that Gypsy Rose presents with puberphonia (high-pitched voice after birth), a class of psychogenic voice disorders," says Jayne Latz, an executive communication coach and president and founder of Corporate Speech Solutions.
Experts believe Dee Dee had a mental illness known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (also called factitious disorder imposed on another), which made her fabricate her daughter's ill health in order to receive attention and sympathy for taking care of a sick child.
On the show, they meet at the movie theater to see the 2015 Cinderella movie, but end up having sex in the bathroom instead. In an interview with Fox 4, Nick later revealed that did actually happen IRL.
Havoc then mentions that they will not be able to count on him in the future, as he cannot feel either of his legs. Lust's attack in Lab 3 had injured his spinal cord, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Once groomed by 20th Century Fox to be "the next Betty Grable", Haver appeared in a string of musicals, but she never achieved Grable's popularity. Haver's second husband was the actor Fred MacMurray, whom she married after she retired from show business.
Her popularity wasn't just due to good looks and an amazing figure it was her ability to work the audience. 'My mother's act was comic rather than sexy,' said her son Erik Preminger. 'She took her clothes off but never showed the audience her full nakedness. She was known for her wit as well as her body.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard (born 1991), American woman convicted of second-degree murder of her mother in 2015.
In addition to being told she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and epilepsy, Gypsy Rose Blanchard never even knew her real age. You'll see in the trailer a fictionalized moment when her mother Dee Dee Blanchard (played by Patricia Arquette) is asked Gypsy's age.
While Gypsy Rose was allowed to have a relationship with her father in real life, Dee Dee lied about Rod and who he was, to people outside of her home. Per Buzzfeed: Dee Dee kept Rod updated on his daughter's whereabouts and medical circumstances.
"There are times I think, 'She's so manipulative and how could you do that to your child?!' And then I think about other times, she was just so desperate for somebody to love her. Regardless of all of that, I still love her and I still miss her. Because she was my mother.”
Her childhood as Baby June, vaudeville headliner, was immortalized on Broadway in the 1959 musical "Gypsy," in which both June Havoc and her older sister, Louise - who would become burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee - were driven by the ultimate stage mother, Rose Hovick, to become stars.