Steve Hayes / Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Lady of Burlesque

From Steve Hayes / Tired Old Queen at the Movies:

Barbara Stanwyck shakes, rattles and rocks as a stripper trying to solve a series of murders in William Wellman’s comic mystery “Lady Of Burlesque” (1943). Based on a novel by Gypsy Rose Lee, it boasts a cast of fabulous “hard boiled dames” including Iris Adrian, Marion Martin, Gloria Dixon and Stephanie Bachelor, as well as vaudeville comics Michael O’Shea and Pinky Lee. With a witty script and terrific backstage atmosphere, it’s a riotous, backstage comedy/ whodunnit that’ll have you guessing right up to the surprise climax. If you’ve gotta’ stay in, this is the one to settle in with!