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.

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

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

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.