 "Variety" noted, "There is a wonderfully funny sequence involving three nails-hard strippers which comes when "Gypsy" has been unreeling about an hour.The sequence is thoroughly welcome and almost desperately needed to counteract a certain Jane One-Note implicit in the tale of a stage mother whose egotisms become something of a bore despite the canny skills of director-producer Mervyn LeRoy to contrive it otherwise.Rosalind Russell's performance as the smalltime brood-hen deserves commendation ...