Burlesque Movies

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New...

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She...

A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.

A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.

Jean-Jacques asks Gustav Martinsson to shadow his cheating wife.

Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

Aspiring rock star and broken-hearted bartender at a burlesque club takes over the stage and sings his feelings to a perplexed audience. Through his...

Full of Love is a combination of autobiography and Finnish burlesque. It’s a story of personal growth, but also a study of inhibitions and...

A short burlesque that is lost today.

A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil.

The story of a beautiful model from the flesh-pots of Tokyo.

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

A filmed burlesque show, staged at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA.

An old-fashioned "Burlesk" variety show, mostly animated with a live-action performance of "I'm Playing with Fire" by the Watson Sisters.

A burlesque stage show at the Follies Theater in Los Angeles, California, featuring the original Hubba-Hubba Girl, Evelyn West.