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 ...

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 ...

The most popular burlesque star throughout the Forties and Fifties, Lili St. Cyr influenced Marilyn Monroe, performed with Dean Martin, and danced well into her 50s. Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the ...

In Of Montreal, Robert Everett-Green writes weekly about the people, places and events that make Montreal a distinctive cultural capital. Urban planners often try to replicate by design things that ...

Elegant, leggy Lili St. Cyr ruled the burlesque stage from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was known for her innovative routines (one involving a flying G string), six marriages, and the mail order ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author Leslie Zemeckis is on to talk with ...

Lili St. Cyr was not a stripper in the modern sense of the word. She emphasized the tease in striptease, and the leggy platinum blond, who many believe was the inspiration to Marilyn Monroe, was never ...

Scarlett James might have been rebuffed by official channels, but there was no stopping her in creating her own tribute to celebrate Montreal’s 375th birthday. “I’ll make whoop-whoop whoopee night and ...

The high point of the evening was the Flying G. A gossamer fine invisible line was attached to the stripper's underwear and then, suddenly, at the appointed moment, a stage-hand whipped the brief ...

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 ...