Buxom Beautease
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Irving Klaw
Dorian Denis
Blaze Starr
Tempest Storm
Lili St. Cyr
Rita Grable
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On a bare theater stage, comedians Gene Doyle and Joe Young engage in lively banter while trying to outsmart each other in obtaining money and a bottle of beer. They also loudly try to shout each other down as Gene talks on the phone to his ill sweetheart, and Joe talks with his wife, whose television is not working. After the comedians blow kisses into their phones to their "girls," blonde dancer Rita Grable brings out a card announcing Blaze Starr. Using a chaise lounge as a prop, Blaze performs a striptease, after which Barbara Pauline also performs a dance. Gene and Joe present another comedy routine, in which Gene plays a "painless" dentist who sterilizes his tools by spitting on them. When Joe learns that Gene's first patient of the morning died after having his tooth extracted, he panics. Rita then presents a card announcing dancer Dorian Dennis, who strips off her long evening gown. Dorian is followed by Eve Adams, who wears an evening gown that is half white, half black. After Eve's striptease, Patti Paget performs a fan dance, using large, feathered fans. Pretending they are in Paris, Gene and Joe then discuss their problems communicating, as Joe can speak French but does not understand it, while Gene can understand French but cannot speak it. Eve, playing a Frenchwoman, comes along, and between the two men, they succeed in obtaining permission for Joe to kiss Eve's check, neck and hand. The next act is Evonne, who pretends to be waking up in bed. After donning silk stockings and high heel shoes, Evonne luxuriously stretches in bed. Rita then brings out a card introducing herself, and performs an energetic dance. After Blaze performs again, Trudy Wayne and Dorian do stripteases. Gene and Joe then reappear and argue over how much three times three is. Using Joe's three new hats as props, Gene proves that the answer is ten, much to Joe's annoyance. Eve comes by and, using the hats, states that the solution is thirteen. Fed up, Joe grabs the hats and is staggered to find that three times three is eight. Lili St. Cyr is then announced, and performs a dramatic dance on an Arabian set. After Lili removes her clothes, she takes a bubble bath in a translucent bathtub. The last dancer is redhead Tempest Storm, who smilingly removes her evening gown.
Director
Irving Klaw
Cast
Dorian Denis
Blaze Starr
Tempest Storm
Lili St. Cyr
Rita Grable
Eve Adams
Joe Young
Gene Doyle
Evonne
Patti Paget
Barbara Pauline
Trudy Wayne
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
NYSA lists Side Street Follies as an alternate title for this film. The majority of the film is in black and white, with the ending dances by Lili St. Cyr and Tempest Storm presented in Eastman Color. The sequences with St. Cyr and Storm are introduced with a separate title card reading "Striptease Revealed." This segment was released as a short in 1952. Although a modern source states that Mae Blondell, as the "Goddess of Beauty," performs the final dance, she did not appear in the viewed print.
