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1 May 1943 (USA)
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GIRLS and GAGS! MUSIC and MIRTH! more
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Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Stanwyck heads enviable cast in salty look backstage at a grind house
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Deborah Hoople, aka Dixie Daisy | |
| Michael O'Shea | ... | Biff Brannigan | |
| Iris Adrian | ... | Gee Gee Graham | |
| Charles Dingle | ... | Inspector Harrigan | |
| J. Edward Bromberg | ... | S.B. Foss | |
| Frank Conroy | ... | 'Stacchi' Stacciaro | |
| Victoria Faust | ... | Lolita La Verne | |
| Gloria Dickson | ... | Dolly Baxter | |
| Marion Martin | ... | Alice Angel | |
| Frank Fenton | ... | Russell Rogers | |
| Stephanie Bachelor | ... | The Princess Nirvena | |
| Pinky Lee | ... | Mandy | |
| Eddie Gordon | ... | Officer Pat Kelly | |
| Janis Carter | ... | Janine | |
| Lou Lubin | ... | Moey, the Candy Butcher |
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91 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Craig Rice, mystery writer from the 1940s and roommate of Gypsy Rose Lee, ghost-wrote "The G-String Murders" for her.
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What's the matter with comics?
Dixie: I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was 14 they were...just looking. When I was 20 I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless...
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Dixie: I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was 14 they were...just looking. When I was 20 I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless...
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Edited into Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007) (V)
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Take It off the E-String
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Did the movies ever produce a trouper more versatile than Barbara Stanwyck, a seasoned pro who not only could do anything handed to her but did them all superlatively well? Her long career encompasses melodramas, weepers, screwball comedy, noir, even Westerns. In Lady of Burlesque she sings, breaks into a variety of dance steps, and even turns a cartwheel (and if a stunt double did it for her, the editing is virtuoso). She's far and away the best thing in the movie, which is saying a lot: Lady of Burlesque is a breakneck carnival ride of a movie.
It's based on The G-String Murders, a light mystery penned by society stripper Gypsy Rose Lee (her own story became legend in Gypsy, and her sister. Baby June, became actress June Havoc). But the mystery emerges late and, like the obligatory love angle, doesn't unduly detract from the movie's main business, which is a salty and affectionate reminiscence of the autumn of vaudeville's ne'er-do-well stepsister, burlesque, set, like all the best show-biz stories, backstage.
William Wellman gets things popping right off the bat, in a Ziegfeld-Follies like number in which one of the prancing chorines keeps trying to blow her Veronica-Lake locks out of her face. Then there's a fast seque into Stanwyck's `Take It Off The E-String (Play It On The G-String),' then upstairs to the horror of a dressing room where the big, pale girls gussy themselves up and rip one another up one side and down the other. Their smart, snapping mouths recall the bitchiest exchanges in Stage Door, another racy peek into stage life after the curtain's rung down (among the grind-house queens are Iris Adrian, Victoria Faust, Janis Carter and Stephanie Bachelor). Another dressing room houses the men the comics with their wide pants and tiny hats (Pinky Lee among them); Wellman even throws in some of their hoary routines but counterpoints them against offstage action to offset their stale-popcorn fustiness.
Police raids and gangster boyfriends, professional jealousies and box-office worries play as much a role in the movie as a series of ecdysiasts strangled with their own beadwork. With Wellman at the helm and an enviable if not, apart from Stanwyck, especially starry cast, Lady of Burlesque delivers lots more than it promises.