Lady of Burlesque (1943) on Netflix
Approved19431h 31mComedyHorrorMusicMysteryRomanceThriller
Dixie Daisy draws crowds at a New York burlesque house, and some of the others resent her. During a police raid, the lights go out and someone grabs for her throat.
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Deborah Hoople, who performs under the name Dixie Daisy, has become the favorite of the crowds at a New York burlesque theater. Backstage, some of the other dancers are catty and jealous of her, while Gee Gee Graham is friendly. Comic Biff Brannigan keeps trying to get close to her, and Dixie, having had bad experiences with comics before, turns him away. During a police raid over public decency violations, the lights backstage go out and someone reaches for her throat, letting go when a stagehand walks past. The owner, S.B. Foss, bails the jailed performers out and gives each of them a stake in the company so they will stay. A few nights later, another dancer, Lolita LaVerne, is discovered dead, a g-string around her throat, after a quarrel with the gangster Louie Grindero.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lady of Burlesque (1943)
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- Joseph Breen, head of the movie industry's self-censorship board, the Production Code Administration, objected to the script of Gypsy Rose Lee's story, then still titled The G-String Murders, using a g-string as the murder weapon, calling the garment "extremely intimate" and likely to offend.
- The original copyright holder's failure to renew the copyright dropped the film into the public domain, so virtually anyone could duplicate and sell it; many surviving versions are badly edited or of extremely poor quality, duped from second- or third-generation copies.
