The name Lili St. Cyr will mean nothing to most people today, although it may ring a bell with certain musical theatre enthusiasts, thanks to mentions in Pal Joey and The Rocky Horror Show. In the ...

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Back in the 1940s, burlesque was considered a shabby, second-rate, and mildly sleazy form of entertainment. Then Lili St. Cyr took the stage. “Lili,” writes Leslie Zemeckis in her new biography ...

The most popular burlesque star throughout the Forties and Fifties, Lili St. Cyr influenced Marilyn Monroe, performed with Dean Martin, and danced well into her 50s. Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the ...

Elegant, leggy Lili St. Cyr ruled the burlesque stage from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was known for her innovative routines (one involving a flying G string), six marriages, and the mail order ...

Lili St. Cyr was not a stripper in the modern sense of the word. She emphasized the tease in striptease, and the leggy platinum blond, who many believe was the inspiration to Marilyn Monroe, was never ...

Don’t take my word for. Here’s how Booklist is raving about Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr, a new biography written by Montecito resident Leslie Zemeckis: “With ...

“Madonna’s stylist used to shop at her lingerie store; Dita von Teese performs an onstage bath routine in homage to her; she inspired Marilyn Monroe,” author Kelly DiNardo says of the subject of her ...

Lili St. Cyr Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions.

Books & Beer shifts away from fiction in September to read the biography “Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique” by Kelly DiNardo, which explores the life of the real last queen of ...

Contemporary “stripper chic†and the “neo-burlesque movement†have spurred new interest in Lili St. Cyr, one of America's best-known postwar striptease artists, and this swift, engaging ...