Estelle Getty

In 2002, it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's disease. She also has a book called "Marathon 33." She still acts from time to time and lives on a farm in Stamford, Connecticut. In 2000, she stopped making public appearances after she revealed that she has Parkinson's disease. June, however, to set the record straight, wrote two more mealistically based books of memoirs, titled Early Havoc and More Havoc. One of the most ironic things about casting Getty in this role was that she is actually two months younger than Bea Arthur: on Golden Girls, Getty was heavily made-up to seem significantly older. The play and the subsequent movie deal assured Gypsy steady income. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Italian mother of Dorothy, who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur. June did not like the way she was portrayed in the piece, but was eventually persuaded not to oppose it, for her sister's sake.

Estelle Getty (born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923) is an American actress best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom, The Golden Girls. Gypsy's memoirs, titled Gypsy, were published in 1957, and were taken as inspirational material for the Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Rose died in 1954 of colon cancer: the sisters now felt free to write about her without risking a lawsuit. Rose shot and killed one of her guests, (according to Erik Preminger, Gypsy's son, Rose killed her own lover, who had made a pass at Gypsy): this incident was kept quiet: Rose was not prosecuted. June and Gypsy continued to get demands for money from their mother, who had opened a lesbian boardinghouse in a ten-room apartment on West End Avenue, in New York City, the property rented for her by Gypsy, and a farm in Highland Mills, New York.

She married thirdly, in 1949, William "Bill" Spier. Gibbs. She married secondly, in 1935, Donald S. June, adopting the name June Havoc, got her first acting break in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, and moved on to Hollywood roles in such movies as Gentleman's Agreement.

Louise gravitated to burlesque, taking the name Gypsy Rose Lee. June left the act. She pulled the trigger, but the safety was on and Bobby was freed. Rose had Bobby arrested and he was met at the police station by Rose, carrying a hidden gun.

June at the age of 13, in 1929, married a boy in the act, named Bobby Reed. Her two daughters earned the family's money by appearing in vaudeville, where June's talent shone, while Louise stood in the background. Their mother, Rose, had married John Hovick, a newspaperman, at the age of fifteen, and was the classic example of a smothering stage mother, though the more horrid details were whitewashed in Gypsy's memoirs. June Havoc (born November 8, 1916) is an actress, and younger sister of Gypsy Rose Lee. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and given the name Ellen Evangeline Hovick.

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