Movie Summary: [Musicals]

    Ringing with the show biz sass of its peerless Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score, Mervyn LeRoy's film version of the Broadway hit "Gypsy" sweeps you on a grand tour of vintage burlesque. It gets up close and personal with its depiction of the roller-coaster relationship of Louise (Natalie Wood), the wallflower who would blossom into sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and her ambitious mother Rose (Rosalind Russell). Karl Malden scores as Herbie, the salesman who falls for Rose--and later regrets it.