Word: stripper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story: Stormy Tornado (Betty Grable) and Curly Flagg (Sheree North) are a couple of down-at-the-G-string chorines. The star of their show. Stripper Cherry Blossom Wang, surprises every body by getting herself bumped off. and Stormy and Curly, having seen the murderer, take off to hide. They pick the men's dormitory of a small college. The academic atmosphere is charged with excitement. Sheree is accidentally hypnotized by a student-and remains in that state for most of the picture. Betty cuddles up with an overage student (Robert Cummings) who stays on in school because...
...sleepy potential customer (Tudor). Famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved the air of a brave but discouraged workhorse whose limbs simply can no longer negotiate that hill. In the end, Dancer de Mille's tired but hefty seductiveness, climaxing in an elephantine cancan step...
...Jerry Colonna-Ella Fitzgerald-Buddy Rich troupe, which grossed a record-breaking $103,500, came first. Others followed fast. Drummer Gene Krupa was drummed in by a corps of Aussie drummers beating out Sing, Sing, Sing. Crooner Johnnie Ray touched off the wildest teen-age hysteria in Australian history. Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was condemned by both the Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. Crooner Nat "King" Cole summed it up: ""Boy, no artist can afford to leave out Australia...
...Stripper Star disagreed: "It's not dead for me. I make $500 a week. I own my own house in Gardenia, California, and I have a car-all paid for. My parents have a house around the corner from mine. I've got all that and I'm just 21. I think I'm doing all right...
Should the conversation slip around to what ship you took to Europe, remember this point: you either went first class on a palatial liner or worked across as a stripper on a grimy whaler out of Oslo. There is no such animal as an in-between ship. The last average ship to make interesting conversation was the Santa Maria...