Striptease Lady
(1943)
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Striptease Lady
(1943)
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Michael O'Shea | ... |
Biff Brannigan
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J. Edward Bromberg | ... | |
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Iris Adrian | ... |
Gee Gee Graham
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Gloria Dickson | ... |
Dolly Baxter
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Victoria Faust | ... |
Lolita La Verne
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Stephanie Bachelor | ... |
The Princess Nirvena
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Charles Dingle | ... |
Inspector Harrigan
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Marion Martin | ... |
Alice Angel
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Pete Gordon | ... |
Officer Pat Kelly
(as Eddie Gordon)
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Frank Fenton | ... |
Russell Rogers
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Pinky Lee | ... |
Mandy
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Frank Conroy | ... |
'Stacchi' Stacciaro
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Lew Kelly | ... |
The Hermit
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Claire Carleton | ... |
Sandra
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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. She's popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she'd get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show's former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect. She then sets up a trap to nail the real killer. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Barbara Stanwyck got to really show her versatility in Lady of Burlesque doing a couple of numbers that did make me wonder why she didn't try to do a full blown musical. Of course she had the best of inspiration in a book that was partially written by the one and only Gypsy Rose Lee.
Gypsy needed a ghostwriter, but she certainly knew the world of burlesque as none other. So with Craig Rice's ghostwriting they fashioned a murder mystery set in the burlesque world. Somebody is killing the strippers at a burlesque theater and Barbara isn't sitting around waiting to be the next victim. With the help of comic Michael O'Shea she's going to find the perpetrator before she gets done in with her G String.
A lovely group of movie queens help Barbara out in this film. Playing some of her peers are Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Marion Martin, Janis Carter, Stephanie Bachelor, and Victoria Faust. Some of these don't make it to the end of the picture.
Playing another of the comics is Pinky Lee who I well remember because I used to watch his kid's television show back in my salad days. Pinky was as frantic as I remember him and he does a mean jitterbug with Stanwyck.
William Wellman as director keeps the pace of things going pretty nicely. And if you're a leg man, this picture will leave you nothing to complain about. As for the murderer, here's a hint, it's roughly the equivalent of the butler doing it.