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Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr
By Zemeckis, Leslie
- ISBN
- 9781619025684 9781619026568
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
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Reviewed on September 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Film producer, director, and author Zemeckis (Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America) continues to explore burlesque in this illustrated biography of striptease dancer Lili St. Cyr (1918–99). At the height of her career, St. Cyr earned $7,000 a week, included among her lovers Orson Welles and Yul Brynner, and was more famous than Gypsy Rose Lee. The author describes how the enigmatic, creative, unconventional, narcissistic, and disarmingly beau...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
