Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
LADY OF BURLESQUE
Synopsis
After two of her fellow burlesque dancers are found dead, strangled with their own stage costumes, Broadway striptease artist Dixie Daisy becomes an amateur detective. With the help of infatuated stand-up comic Biff Brannigan, Dixie aims to find the killer before she becomes his next victim.
Synopsis
After two of her fellow burlesque dancers are found dead, strangled with their own stage costumes, Broadway striptease artist Dixie Daisy becomes an amateur detective. With the help of infatuated stand-up comic Biff Brannigan, Dixie aims to find the killer before she becomes his next victim.
Our take
Based on burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee’s gloriously titled novel The G-String Murders, this Oscar®-nominated musical shimmies and shakes with fleshy titillation. Barbara Stanwick is divine as the wisecracking stripper turned amateur detective, bedecked in encrusted stage outfits by Edith Head.