Lady of Burlesque: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea and Iris Adrian (1943 Movie)

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Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American 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 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 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" (Stanwyck). 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.

Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 -- January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.

Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

Michael O'Shea (March 17, 1906, Hartford, Connecticut - December 4, 1973, Dallas, Texas) was an American character actor whose career spanned from the 1940s-1960s. Unlike his five brothers who became policemen, O'Shea dropped out of school at 12 and began his acting career in vaudeville by touring with boxing idol Jack Johnson's show.

Iris Adrian (May 29, 1912 — September 17, 1994) was an American film actress.

During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters' "molls", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or comedy, and she was also regarded as a capable dancer, dancing in a couple of films with George Raft. She also appeared on several radio programs, including serving as a regular on the Abbott and Costello Show.

She continued to act regularly without achieving star status and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in more than one hundred films. In her later years she appeared in several Walt Disney films, including That Darn Cat!, The Love Bug, The Shaggy D.A. and Freaky Friday. She also played numerous guest roles in such television series as Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, The Munsters, The Love Boat, The Lucy Show and The Jack Benny Show.

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[AnnyvO]

Wonder who did the subtitles. There wasn't a single one correct. It's complete gibberish

[gaiagale]

@ScarlettOBeara you're welcome ...that comment (Amysita77) was rather harsh ...that aside...

thanks for getting back to me and for clarifying

respect

[ScarlettOBeara]

@gaiagale I know you were, thank you.....I wasn't having a go at you (sorry if it seemed like that way. ) "my point" sentence was refering too Amysita77 comment. sorry again and thanks for your comment, I really did appreciate it!

[gaiagale]

@ScarlettOBeara oh ...I thought your point was as you typed "based on their size......(they're mostly U.S sizes 10 & 12's )" ...I did point out the dance number (during which the tapping was remarkably in sync) my point was in support of your statement ...oh well!

[ScarlettOBeara]

@gaiagale Yes, and they have talent, but, most would be ignored today; and those roles would be given to the Megan Foxes', or Nicole Richie's, women with acting talents that are..........questionable. Size over substance, that was my point.

[gaiagale]

lovely old movie! ...the trusting at face value is remarkable

thanks for sharing

[gaiagale]

@ScarlettOBeara I thought the same ...in that opening dance number ...all of the dancers actually had curves ...shapely legs

[amysita77]

@ScarlettOBeara You're deluded. The actesses in this film are not 10s and 12s. None of them are anywhere near that fat.

[onceone96]

Reminds me of bioshock :P