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Overview

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Director:
William A. Wellman
Writers:
James Gunn (writer)
Gypsy Rose Lee (novel)
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Release Date:
1 May 1943 (USA) more
Tagline:
GIRLS and GAGS! MUSIC and MIRTH! more
Plot:
Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that's been turned into a burlesque theater... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
An Almost Forgotten Gem more (36 total)

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Striptease Lady (UK)
The G-String Murders
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Sweden:15

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Trivia:
Craig Rice, mystery writer from the 1940s and roommate of Gypsy Rose Lee, ghost-wrote "The G-String Murders" for her. more
Quotes:
Biff: 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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Movie Connections:
Featured in The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch (2005) more
Soundtrack:
So This Is You more

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36 out of 36 people found the following comment useful.
An Almost Forgotten Gem, 1 April 2005
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Author: gftbiloxi (gftbiloxi@yahoo.com) from Biloxi, Mississippi

The most surprising thing about LADY OF BURLESQUE was that it got made at all. Burlesque was all but dead by 1942, shut out of most towns and cities by relentless moral crusaders, and Hollywood itself was mired in the infamous "production code," which put a heavy lid on what could and could not be shown on screen. But burlesque had spawned a number of stars who remained favorites with public, and in 1941 the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee penned a book called THE G-STRING MURDERS. It proved extremely popular, and a year later United Artists took a chance on the film project.

True enough, the movie couldn't show the strippers in action or play out the bawdy comic sketches so popular in burlesque, but writer James Gunn turned in a superior script, and director William Wellman and his cast gave the whole thing tremendous dash and style. The result was a movie that captured the seedy, underworld-edged world of burlesque without actually causing censors to yank it from distribution.

In theory, LADY OF BURLESQUE is a murder mystery, but mystery takes a back seat to the brawling backstage antics of crossed love affairs and star rivalry. Barbara Stanwyck endows star stripper "Dixie Daisy" with her own memorable brand of tough class--and although she can only be shown from the waist up when she bumps and grinds, she still manages to tear strips off her musical number "Play It On The G-String." The rest of the cast is equally memorable, many of them burlesque stars in their own right. Pinky Lee (Mandy) is memorably teamed with Marion Martin (Alice Angel) to delightful effect; Iris Adrian (Gee-Gee)is the gum smacking brash blonde to end all gum smacking brash blondes; and such memorable character actors as Michael O'Shea (Biff), Gloria Dickson (Dolly), and J. Edward Bromberg (Foss) round out the cast superbly.

Sad to say, LADY OF BURLESQUE has fallen into public domain, and it has not been well preserved. I have seen several releases of the film, and all of them are plagued with breaks in the film and the soundtrack. LADY OF BURLESQUE may never be regarded as a "great" film, but it is an extremely entertaining one, particularly for those who already know something about the now-lost world of burlesque. As one character says, "Makes me want to leave the wife!" Recommended.

Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer

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