L'Étrangleur

Original title: Lady of Burlesque

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Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea in L'Étrangleur (1943)

Cozy Mystery Comedy Horror Music Mystery Romance Thriller

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again.

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6.3/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Although it's pretty obvious, the broken-down bathroom fixture discussed by the members of the troupe is none other than a toilet. The Production Code wouldn't allow the offending word to be uttered or shown, and when the replacement arrives, it's a bathroom sink.

Goofs
When Dixie comes up from the cellar after the raid, there are burlesque actors fighting with cops in the background. This comes after Foss had already calmed everything down and was bringing limos to escort the cast to the police station. The girls in the background can be identified as ones that were on the stage in the previous scene.

Quotes
Biff: What's the matter with comics?
Dixie: I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was eleven the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was fourteen they were... just looking. When I was twenty I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless...

Connections
Edited into Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)

Soundtracks
Take It Off the E-String
Written by Sammy Cahn (as Sammy Kahn) and Harry Akst
Performed by Barbara Stanwyck (uncredited)

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Did Barbara ever make a bad film?

Barbara Stanwyck managed to elevate nearly every film and television show she ever did. The earliest film I saw her in was "The Miracle Woman" from 1931. I just saw "Baby Face" and I own copies of "The Thorn Birds", "Stella Dallas" and this film. "Lady of Burlesque" is a wonderful, atmospheric depiction of an bygone era, complete with Stanwyck doing some amazing dance moves. Some people have criticized the music score as being second-rate, but that is what it SUPPOSED to be. Burlesque wasn't Ziegfeld. Men went to see the girls in various stages of undress, not hear Cole Porter or Irving Berlin. The music and the corny jokes were incidental to the "action" on stage, and it was not for nothing that Arthur Lange's musical score was nominated for an Acadamy Award. The mystery story is well-told and the atmosphere is added to by an excellent supporting cast, with Iris Adrian being a standout. After seeing this wonderfully entertaining film you will feel like you have been whisked back in time to an era long-gone.