The name Lili St. Cyr will mean nothing to most people today, although it may ring a bell with certain musical theatre enthusiasts, thanks to mentions in Pal Joey and The Rocky Horror Show. In the ...
Books & Beer shifts away from fiction in September to read the biography “Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique” by Kelly DiNardo, which explores the life of the real last queen of ...
Back in the 1940s, burlesque was considered a shabby, second-rate, and mildly sleazy form of entertainment. Then Lili St. Cyr took the stage. “Lili,” writes Leslie Zemeckis in her new biography ...
In heels, she stood nearly6feet tall. With platinum ____hair and green catlike eyes, she had a cold Nordic beauty that made men brawl over her. Her body was strong yet slim—the physique of a ballerina ...
Actress and author Leslie Zemeckis celebrated the launch of her highly anticipated biography of Lili St. Cyr titled, Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteause Lili St. Cyr yesterday with an ...
Contemporary “stripper chic†and the “neo-burlesque movement†have spurred new interest in Lili St. Cyr, one of America's best-known postwar striptease artists, and this swift, engaging ...