Lady of Burlesque

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Lady of Burlesque
DVD cover of the film
Directed by	William A. Wellman
Produced by	Hunt Stromberg
Written by	James Gunn Gypsy Rose Lee/Craig Rice (novel)
Starring	Barbara Stanwyck Michael O'Shea Iris Adrian
Music by	Arthur Lange
Cinematography	Robert De Grasse
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	May 1, 1943
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, based on the novel The G-String Murders written by famous strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee (with ghost-writing assistance from famous mystery writer Craig Rice). The plot concerns the murder of two strippers, backstage of a New York burlesque theatre and the detection of the killer.

The film is a fairly faithful, if bowdlerized, adaptation of the original novel, though Gypsy Rose Lee, who appears as a character in her own book, is here renamed "Dixie Daisy" (Stanwyck). Michael O'Shea plays her romantic interest, comedian Biff Brannigan, and Iris Adrian (pictured with Stanwyck) portrays a showgirl. Pinky Lee, a burlesque comic in real life, is another of the many notable supporting players. The film attempts to depict what the censors of 1943 would allow it to show with respect to the precise nature of "bumps" and "grinds", and the slapdash nature of burlesque shows. Songs include "Take it off the A string, play it on the G string" rendered by Stanwyck.

[edit] External links

• Lady of Burlesque at the TCM Movie Database
• Lady of Burlesque at the Internet Movie Database
• Lady of Burlesque at Allmovie

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