• Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American musical comedy-mystery film, produced by RKO Pictures...
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    A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment...
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    Neo-burlesque, or new burlesque, is the revival and updating of the traditional American burlesque performance. Though based on the traditional burlesque...
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    Michael O'Shea (actor) (category American people of Irish descent)
    O'Shea played drums and the banjo. Much like his character from Lady of Burlesque (1943), Biff Brannigan, O'Shea was a comedian and emcee at speakeasies...
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    American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows. Burlesque became popular in...
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    April 3, 1993), better known as Pinky Lee, was an American burlesque comic, actor and host of the children's television program The Pinky Lee Show in the...
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    Gloria Lady of Burlesque (1943) as Alice Angel Swingtime Johnny (1943) as Flashy Blonde The Woman of the Town (1943) as Daisy Davenport Sweethearts of the...
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    The Purchase Price (1932), So Big! (1932), The Great Man's Lady (1942), and Lady of Burlesque (1943). She starred in the 1947 film, "The Two Mrs. Carrolls"...
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  • the titles Lady of Burlesque and The Strip-Tease Murders. Set in a burlesque theater, Lee casts herself as the detective who solves a set of homicides...
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  • and prominent star of American burlesque. Billed as April March, The First Lady of Burlesque, she was a headline act in burlesque from 1952 to 1978. During...
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