Lady of Burlesque (1943)

★★★★★ · The G-String Murders · tedmcburnett · 2014-09-19

One of Stanwicks best movies and one of the most fascinating mystery movies I have ever seen. You will want to watch it many times. Very beguiling.

★★★★ · BOOM TA TA BOOM TA TA BOOM!! · picfixer · 2010-02-06

Murders in a burlesque house. The police are baffled. Can the strippers solve the crimes? Finding out is half the fun in this backstage murder mystery that's flavored with the underside of theatrical life. The story is fast-paced and suspenseful, with a subplot or two that add interesting complications. However, this movie is anything but a film noir. There is plenty of straight from the shoulder, wry humor as the tumultuous life of the burlesque house goes on, regardless of the body count. The title character is played by Barbara Stanwyck, whose mean-streets personal upbringing gave her…

★★★★ · unusual performance by Barbara Stanwyck · slugs and urchins · 2008-10-04

This movie deserves at least 3.5 stars. Barbara Stanwyck acts and dances well and she's playing a burlesque dancer, not a cunning femme-fatale or calculating, evil woman. Which is what she was normally cast into. That and a terrible TV show called the Big Valley which was dull and pointless. The plot is so-so but the police as faceless hooligans is interesting and unusual too for this period. It tries to glamorize a business where many are exploited and uses the scantily clad for bait, and Stanwck looks pretty good, too!

★ · Self-conscious waste of time · tbragg · 2017-02-24

Every line, every smirk by the performers in this mild mystery says "ain't I funny?" or "ain't I sexy?" That kind of mugging would be bad enough if they were, but they aren't. I can understand why some folks like this but it's definitely not my kind of caper. I like more mystery in my mystery, more sex in my sexiness. And I especially like comics to actually be funny, unlike this painfully unfunny crew.