Does Mayo actually do a striptease?
I have never been able to see this film. Does Virginia Mayo actually strip? If so, how far does she go?
shareShe shows her legs but, no, she doesn't do a striptease. The film is, after all, from 1952 and no doubt was intended as wholesome family fare.
shareI didn't expect her to bare her boobs or anything like that. But since she is portraying a burlesque queen, I expected stripping similar to Natalie Wood in "Gypsy".
shareSorry brother. When I was a young teenager, I became a Virginia Mayo fan and was thinking the same thing when I read the TV guide.
Watch "The Swinger" for a very hot Ann-Margret doing a striptease and some other provocative dancing, Jill St. John doing a hootchy-coo early in "The Oscar" and my oh my Raquel Welch in a tiny bikini snaking down a staircase to the rhythm of a guitar in "Fathom".
For slightly more obscure, but sexy dance scenes, "Darling Lili" was a big budget flop with Rock Hudson and Julie Andrews that I find fun and interesting to watch. Great setting in World War I France, but not really a war movie. There is a European sex symbol Gloria Paul who can really grind it out in her striptease. Kind of a take-off on Mata-Hari the sexy dancing WWI spy.
Interestingly, Julie Andrew's character decides to replicate the provocative striptease that she watched in her own stage act. From what I have read, the beautiful Julie Andrews wanted to spice up her image a little in real life as well.
Then there is a creative perhaps controversial striptease in maybe the first blaxploitation film "Cotton Comes to Harlem". The hot African-American woman really shakes it out dressed as a slave with a bale of cotton for a prop. Sorry, I only watch'em, I don't write'em.
These were hot PG rated dances from circa late-1960s when the tease was the only thing allowed on camera. I think these scenes made the lovely Natalie Wood's dance in "Gypsy" look tame.
cyd charisse "takes it off" in the silencers .
thanks for the cotton comes to harlem tip.
Jill St. John actually took it all off in her striptease in "The Oscar" but the camera didn't show her "naughty bits".
shareYou might have expected stripping similar to Natalie Wood in "Gypsy", but this was 1952, not 1962. Those ten years might as well be a million in what could be depicted on screen. Between 1952 and 1962 women grew breasts....and other parts....that could be noticed and commented on. If you want a decent striptease, you'll have to wait till later in the 60's. In 1952, women on the screen didn't have breasts or vaginas, by order of the production code.
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