Directed by:
William A. WellmanScreenplay:
James GunnCinematography:
Robert De GrasseCast:
Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson, Stephanie Bachelor, Charles Dingle, Marion Martin, Frank Fenton (more)VOD (2)
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In an old opera house-turned-burlesque nightspot, Dixie Daisy's (Barbara Stanwyck) scintillating striptease routine has become the main attraction, making her stiff competition for the other dancing divas vying for top billing: Dolly Baxter (Gloria Dickson), Lolita La Verne (Victoria Faust), and Princess Nirvena (Stephanie Bachelor). Though Dixie steers clear of the backstage catfights, including a nasty quarrel between Dolly and Lolita, she can't help but be slightly miffed when Princess, the former top-billed dancer who slept her way to the top, uses blackmail to regain the number one spot. But things become really intense when one of the dancers is found strangled and poisoned - the work of not one but two killers. After a second woman is murdered, police begin to suspect Dixie is to blame. With the help of another burlesque performer, comic Biff Brannigan (Michael O'Shea), Dixie sets a trap to catch the killer. But the mismatched couple doesn't just find the killer, they find love as well. (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Michael O'Shea
USA
Best movies:
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
J. Edward Bromberg
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
A Song Is Born (1948)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
Iris Adrian
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Our Relations (1936)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Gloria Dickson
USA
Charles Dingle
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Little Foxes (1941)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Marion Martin
USA
Best movies:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Frank Fenton
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Frank Conroy
UK
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Janis Carter
USA
Best movies:
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962)
Gerald Mohr
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Detective Story (1951)
Gilda (1946)
Noel Neill
USA
Best movies:
The Big Clock (1948)
Superman (1978)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Dan White
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
To Each His Own (1946)
Chuck Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kit Guard
Denmark
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Joe Devlin
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Claire Carleton
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Westward the Women (1951)
George Chandler
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)