Hollywood Burlesque (1948) / Peek-A-Boo (1953)

Take a front-row seat inside San Diego's famed Hollywood Theatre for a special evening of Hollywood Burlesque, one of the first of the post-war Burlesque Features, which Variety accurately described as "an actual run-through of a burly show," complete with campy chorines, baggy-pants comics -- including the ol' "Buzzin' the Bees" bit -- and such Big-Time Striptease Queens as Joy Damon ("The Happy Little Lassie with the Classy Chassis"), Jenne ("The Modern Tigress"), and "Statuesque Beauty" Hillary Dawn, whose smooth sophisticated strip is burlesque at its best! Plus: The show continues at The Follies Theatre in Los Angeles where Venus ("The World's Most Exciting Body"), Sherry Winters ("The Yum-Yum Girl"), Suzette ("The French Doll"), tassel-twirling Virginia Valentine, and "The Peek-a-Boo Lovelies" all invite you to play Peek-A-Boo with them in "The Big Burlesque Hit of 1953!" Yowza! Contains nudity.

HOLLYWOOD BURLESQUE was filmed inside San Diego's Hollywood Theatre and features vaudeville routines, adorable chorines, and main attractions such as Hillary Dawn, Jenne, and Joy Damon, a.k.a. "The Happy Little Lassie with the Classy Chassis." The sophisticated stripping has value both as sociological study and as enjoyable camp in its own right. Also included here are the lovely ladies of PEEK-A-BOO, from Los Angeles's Follies Theater: Suzette, Virginia Valentine, Sherry Winters, and the inimitable Venus, who wasn't known as "The World's Most Exciting Body" for nothing.