Queen of Burlesque
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Cast & Crew
Sam Newfield
Evelyn Ankers
Carleton Young
Marian Martin
Craig Reynolds
Rose La Rose
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Crystal McCoy, known as the Queen of Burlesque, works for Joe Nolan. When Crystal learns that Nolan has offered the starring position to Dolly Devoe, she angrily confronts him and announces that she will hold him to her contract. Crystal's boyfriend, newspaper columnist Steve Hurley, suggests that she quit and marry him, but Crystal turns him down. Later, Lola Cassell, another stripper, accuses Dolly of killing Frank Granger, her former boyfriend. Chick Malloy, the show's comic, also objects to Nolan's hiring of Dolly because he has promised to get Crystal's job for his girl friend, Blossom Terraine. During the show, Annie Morris, the wardrobe mistress, finds Dolly strangled with a drapery cord and stuffed into her trunk. Police inspector Crowley first suspects that the cord came from Chick's dressing room, but later discovers that it belonged in Dolly's hotel room. Lola tries to telephone Crowley at the hotel, but does not reach him. Meanwhile, Chick discovers that Nolan was being blackmailed by Dolly and uses this information to force Nolan to make Blossom the star of the show. Later, the bodies of both Lola and Blossom are discovered. Because her job was threatened by two of the dead women, Crystal now becomes the prime suspect. Nolan then tells the police that five years earlier, he worked in a carnival with Lola and Dolly, who were both in love with Granger. Nolan accidentally killed Granger after Granger tried to steal money from him. Although he admits that Dolly was blackmailing him, he denies that he killed her. Then, an unknown assailant takes a shot at Annie. After sending Crystal home with Annie, Steve, who is writing a novel titled Queen of Burlesque , investigates the shooting and discovers that the shot could not have come from outside the window as Annie claimed. He then telephones Crystal and tells her that he is being sent to Europe in the morning and wants to get married that night. After Crystal agrees to meet him, Steve telephones Crowley. Annie follows Crystal to the theater and demands to know why Steve is taking Crystal away from her. A deranged Annie believes that Crystal is her daughter Margaret. She killed Dolly and Blossom because they threatened Crystal's job, and Lola was murdered because she planned to tell Crowley that she saw Annie at Dolly's hotel. After the police take Annie away, Crystal learns that Steve is not being sent to Europe, but agrees to join him in Niagara Falls instead.
Director
Sam Newfield
Cast
Evelyn Ankers
Carleton Young
Marian Martin
Craig Reynolds
Rose La Rose
Emory Parnell
Alice Fleming
Murray Leonard
Jacqueline Dalya
Nolan Leary
Red Marshall
Gordon Clark
David Fresco
Charles King
Crew
Arthur Alexander
John Carter
Larry Ceballos
Norman Cook
Vincent J. Farrar
Louis Germonprez
Karl Hajos
Edward C. Jewell
Karlice
David Lang
Gene Lucas
Ray Mercer
Jack W. Ogilvie
E. H. Reif
Arthur St. Claire
Alfred Stern
Al Stewart
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Although onscreen credits list the names of the songwriters, none of the song titles have been determined. According to the Variety review, Rose La Rose was a real-life "runway peeler with considerable experience." The reviewer notes that the film contains dialogue of "questionable taste" and speculates that the producers might have hoped that the film's sensational aspects would make it a "controversial issue."
