Lili St. Cyr

This post kind of follows on from my last post about some of the legends of Burlesque. I mentioned in class that I don't really know much about Lili St. Cyr, so I decided to educate myself a little! It was whilst reading a fantastic blog called Daily Burlesque, which is written by Jo Weldon, headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, that I came across a post of hers with a link to an interview with Lili St. Cyr from 1957, on The Mike Wallace Interview. The interview is fascinating, as Lili talks about her disillusionment of the burlesque industry, and how keen she is to get out of it! At the time of this interview she has been doing burlesque for about 16 years, and I'm very interested to know more about her!

A screenshot taken from the interview, which you can reach by clicking here.

A book was written about her by Kelly DiNardo, called The Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique. Jo Weldon interviewed Kelly DiNardo about the book and DiNardos experience with Burlesque, and it's a great read! I am very intrigued and so will be getting my hands on a copy of the book post haste!

Click here to buy the book!

And to finish here is a gorgeous video of Lili, it's been edited which annoys me, but you can still see her gorgeousness.


Happy Teasing!

Luna

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