Based on Gypsy Rose Lee murder mystery novel The G-String Murders, the film's play like a B-movie in The Thin Man-like style. There someone who don't like strippers. Barbara Stanwyck plays a Gypsy Rose Lee like-character with a fellow comedian who had crush on her and both them team up on solving the case. Stanwyck, the murder victim and "The Princess" are unattractive, but the supporting and minor actresses playing the strippers are pretty. I like one dress Stanwyck wore design by the great Edith Head. Stanwyck's role may not be great maybe it's how the part was written, she's sassy and wisecracking I agree the second choice who could play the role of Dixie Daisy would be the lovely Rita Hayworth. Stanwyck has nice body and singing and dancing. Her singing in two stage act was not good. When I first saw it two years ago I didn't like it but rewatching; now I finding it entertain fun.

A darn near perfect mix of comedy, musical skits, and whodunit. And who would expect screen toughie Stanwyck to blend into the format so expertly, especially with the acrobatic dancing. Looks like every brassy blonde in Hollywood got hired as a chorus girl. To say they add more than a little spark would be a genuine understatement. Then there's the oh-so-snooty Princess Nirvena (Batchelor) from Toledo, no less. That snappy banter between the girls is at least half the fun. While eyeballing them running around half-dressed is the other half, at least for guys like me. I bet this 90-minutes wasn't shown to WWII troops overseas, otherwise they'd be swimming home. And catch the energetic O'Shea as a baggy pants comic. Too bad he's been largely forgotten. It looks like the whodunit part is largely an after-thought since it's not played up in the screenplay. No sir, the movie's having too much fun with the backstage antics. One thing for sure, Stromberg Productions didn't have to pony up a bundle for sets. That's because events never leave the burlesque theatre, and never go outdoors except for a couple rooftop shots. So it's a tribute to everyone involved, especially director Wellman, that the entertainment never sags. Anyway, kudos to novelist Lee and adapter Gunn for an excellent screenplay. And a salute to the inimitable Iris Adrian (Gee Gee) whose cheap blonde never let an audience down. And, for that matter, neither does the movie.

*Spoiler/plot- Lady in Burlesque, 1943. A mystery about the closing and sale of a large theater involving the theater's management, owner, and vaudeville show cast.*Special Stars- Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, Pinky Lee, *Theme- Strippers are not all dumb women.*Trivia/location/goofs- B&W. Murder mystery. Written by Gypsy Rose Lee. Pinky Lee was a longtime performer in both theater genres.*Emotion- A pedestrian mystery film except for the elements of seeing how vaudeville shows were done in those times and experiencing Gypy Rose Lee writing. Barbara Stanwwyck glamored up to be a sexy stripper is comical. Pinky Lee is worth seeing for his comedic lisping little boy stage sketch role that was later copied by several performers in Vaudeville era like the Three Stooges, Ed Wynn, Bert Lar, and many others.*Based On- The dying of the vaudeville theater and it's performance circuit.

LADY OF BURLESQUE,an old humble screwball mystery ,very clumsily made, has one thing of real interest—Mrs. Stanwyck, at her rather hottest, as a sex—bomb. As for the rest, it's a quite insipid screwball comedy, unpretentious B slapdash. I find this genre as admissible as the sleazy fancily violent thrillers of the '70s.Mrs. Stanwyck gives a rather standard performance as a wisecracker ;she makes such nice remarks about how men were looking at her ankles when she was 11;today, such confessions would sound utterly unacceptable. But LADY OF … was made in a time when people were having so much more fun ….LADY OF BURLESQUE is about a couple of murders in a burlesque theater ; Mrs. Stanwyck is the Colombina, and an Irishman is her Pierrot; hence the screwball. The execution is, as I already stated, silly and clumsy.Balast.