Lili St. Cyr (June 3, 1918 - January 29, 1999), was an American striptease artist. Born Willis Marie Van Schaack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, little is known about the childhood that developed St. Cyr into the outspoken celebrity she became. Her grandparents, the Klarquists, reared her and her two show business sisters, Dardy Orlando and Barbara Moffett. Having taken ballet lessons throughout her youth, she began to dance professionally as a chorus line girl in Hollywood. Wikipedia
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Ecdysiast of the 1940's who appeared in a non-blue film or two. Said to have had romances with Orson Welles and Victor Mature, among others. On trial in 1951 for "lewd and lascivious" performances, she volunteered to take a bath in the courtroom to prove www.imdb.com/name/nm0820506/
In case you missed it: I chatted with Bob Edwards and WTOP about Lili, the burlesque scene in the Fifties and why it's important to know about Lili St. Cyr. www.thecandypitch.com
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Lili St. Cyr helped take the striptease out of the burlesque halls and put it on the glittering stages of the newly created Las Vegas. She was extravagant, elegant, dazzling and always demure. She helped create the Vegas sensibility of bigger is always javasbachelorpad.com/cyr.html
