Lady of Burlesque (1943)

Murder mystery based on the novel The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee, or perhaps more accurately by her ghost writer. It has a bit of a paint by numbers feel to it, as if in trying to tie a conventional who-done-it into Ms. Lee's all but trade-marked milieu of the burlesque house, the writer(s) show more concern with getting all the parts in (a love triangle here, a creepy old guy there, plenty of red hearings) then they do with the finished whole. Still star Barbara Stanwyck caries the picture by shear Chutzpah. The burlesque featured here in is no doubt greatly toned down for the production code. Moderately entertaining. **