Lady of Burlesque

1943

Comedy / Horror / Music / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 3152 3.2K

dancing based on novel or book theatre group stripper murder whodunit

Plot summary

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Director

William A. Wellman Photo
William A. Wellman

Top cast

George Chandler Photo
George Chandler as Jake
Chuck Hamilton Photo
Chuck Hamilton as Cop in Courtroom Skit
Marion Martin Photo
Marion Martin as Alice Angel
Gerald Mohr Photo
Gerald Mohr as Louie Grindero
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834.98 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 9
1.51 GB
1380*1036
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jeffcoat 7 / 10

Surprising, light-hearted comedy

Nothing deep here, but that's good. A light-hearted comedy in the guise of a mystery. Don't expect to be mystified, the "mystery" only serves as a vehicle for the comedy and a rather believable romance. Barbara Stanwyck, though 36 years old, looks much younger. Her part was rather vivacious, risque, and revealing for a 1943 movie. The lady could act!The image on the DVD is generally very good, but there are several places where a few "frames" are missing, causing disquieting "jumps", but still, a good investment of time, if only to enjoy watching Miss Stanwyck smile and wiggle.
Reviewed by blanche-2 7 / 10

Take It Off the E-String

That body - those legs - yes, it's Barbara Stanwyck, who is sensational in "Lady of Burlesque," a 1943 film based on Gypsy Rose Lee's novel "The G String Murders." The murder mystery aspect of this film (which is pretty lame) is just an excuse to give the audience a taste of life in a burlesque house - the crummy dressing rooms, the fights, the raids, the dumb on-stage humor, and underneath it all, a camaraderie and a closeness. The performances are all very chaste thanks to the censors. Stanwyck performs "Take It Off the E-String (Play It On the G-String)" and she's fantastic. It sounded like she was dubbed in the big parts of the song, but the lower register sounds a lot like her.Stanwyck is Dixie Daisy, a newcomer to this burlesque house who's making a big splash with the customers and with one of the comics (Michael O'Shea). When one of the girls is murdered, and then another (strangled with a G string), it begins to look as if someone is trying to close the old opera house where the show plays.Stanwyck is backed up by a lot of pros, including Iris Adrian, O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, and Pinky Lee. They're pros but she's a star - and it's her film from beginning to end. Somehow Stanwyck made it all look easy, slipping as easily into this role as she did into all the parts she played throughout her career. And it looks like she did her own dancing too."Lady of Burlesque" is a lot of fun, and Stanwyck - sexy, tough, and warm - is spectacular.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

Who Is Killing The Great Ladies of Burlesque?

Barbara Stanwyck got to really show her versatility in Lady of Burlesque doing a couple of numbers that did make me wonder why she didn't try to do a full blown musical. Of course she had the best of inspiration in a book that was partially written by the one and only Gypsy Rose Lee.Gypsy needed a ghostwriter, but she certainly knew the world of burlesque as none other. So with Craig Rice's ghostwriting they fashioned a murder mystery set in the burlesque world. Somebody is killing the strippers at a burlesque theater and Barbara isn't sitting around waiting to be the next victim. With the help of comic Michael O'Shea she's going to find the perpetrator before she gets done in with her G String.A lovely group of movie queens help Barbara out in this film. Playing some of her peers are Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Marion Martin, Janis Carter, Stephanie Bachelor, and Victoria Faust. Some of these don't make it to the end of the picture.Playing another of the comics is Pinky Lee who I well remember because I used to watch his kid's television show back in my salad days. Pinky was as frantic as I remember him and he does a mean jitterbug with Stanwyck.William Wellman as director keeps the pace of things going pretty nicely. And if you're a leg man, this picture will leave you nothing to complain about. As for the murderer, here's a hint, it's roughly the equivalent of the butler doing it.
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