GYPSY ROSE LEE

Today, burlesque is nothing short of an art form. Performers both male and female combine the most explosive aspects of costumery, dance, comedy and thea...

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Gypsy Rose Lee-"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly...very, very slowly."

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Gypsy Rose Lee in Belle of the Yukon, 1944

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Gertrude McCoy - 12 November 1924 - Photo by Bassano - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Famed stripper was more than her stage persona

At the height of its popularity in the 1920s and '30s, burlesque was the poor man's Ziegfeld's Follies. A man of means spent upwards of five dollars, which wasn't chicken feed in those days, to ogle...

Actress Marian Martin in a Satan-themed burlesque cape. Martin actually played a dancer named ‘Pinky Lee’ in the 1943 film, ‘Lady of Burlesque’ which was based on the novel ‘The G-String Murders’ written by strip tease queen Gypsy Rose Lee. Martin was not a burlesque performer, but her costume is in the satanic burlesque spirit of this post. Of the many fun things that comes along with being a part of the diverse compendium that is Dangerous Minds, those rare days when my feet hit the floor…