Burlesque Movies

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

Stripper Blaze Starr visits a nudist camp for a movie to escape her troubles. She decides to join them and for a while manages to keep it from her...

Vic Vicers is the master-of-ceremonies of a burlesque-variety show with a carnival setting. A slapstick comedy sequence, featuring low-rent comics...

After years on the margins of a ballet company because of her skin color, a young Black dancer finally takes the lead role. As her body is exoticized...

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling...

An old-fashioned "Burlesk" variety show, mostly animated with a live-action performance of "I'm Playing with Fire" by the Watson Sisters.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

The Crazy Horse cabaret has been a Parisian night hotspot since 1951. The cabaret is known for celebrating the beauty, personality and pure talent of...

Stripteasers, baggy-pants comedians, exotic dancers, comedy sketches-- all part of a great tribute to a living art, hosted by Ann Corio, the queen of...

Jean-Jacques asks Gustav Martinsson to shadow his cheating wife.

Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

To support her paralytic father, Chato works as a utility girl for a burlesque star Virgie Nite. But when Virgie gets drunk on the night of her...

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to...

A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She...