Movies and TvShows featuring "burlesque-performer" theme.

When a burlesque performer is murdered, a dancer takes it upon herself to solve the crime and clear her name.

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected

While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.

Sammy Hoover was born in the hills of West Virginia in the early 1930s, and he has been around the block a time or two. In this documentary, the transgendered performer, now known as Barbara LeMay, recounts previous adventures as a carnival 'hootch' dancer, and being a 'homorphrodite' while in between shows at a Hollywood-area strip joint.