"I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself."

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I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona.

— Karen Abbott