Watch Lady Of Burlesque (1943) Free Online

Release Date: 1943   Duration: 91 min

Cast: Iris Adrian, Marion Martin, Michael O'Shea, Frank Conroy, Charles Dingle, Gloria Dickson, J. Edward Bromberg, Barbara Stanwyck, Victoria Faust

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Comedy film, Black-and-white, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Black comedy, Whodunit

Lady of Burlesque is a 1943 American mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, based on the novel The G-String Murders written by strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. 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 faithful, if sanitized due to the censorship of the time, adaptation of the...  MORE

Lady of Burlesque is a 1943 American mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea, based on the novel The G-String Murders written by strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. 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 faithful, if sanitized due to the censorship of the time, adaptation of the original novel, although Gypsy Rose Lee, who appears as a character in her own book, is here renamed "Dixie Daisy". Michael O'Shea plays her romantic interest, comedian Biff Brannigan, and Iris Adrian portrays a showgirl. Pinky Lee, a burlesque comic in real life, is another notable supporting player, as is Gerald Mohr as villain Louie Grindero. The film depicted as much as the censors would allow with respect to the precise nature of "bumps" and "grinds", and the slapdash nature of burlesque shows. Songs include "Take it off the E string, play it on the G string", rendered by Stanwyck. LESS