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Inspired by the success of Jerald Intrator's STRIPORAMA, legendary pin-up photographer Irving Klaw — who also did a brisk business in short films of lingerie-clad models dancing, wrestling and otherwise carrying on — made two feature-length burlesque films of his own. This is the first, and features a mix of baggy-pants comedy, songs, novelty acts and erotic dance/strip numbers that stop short of actual nudity. The movie's stars are legendary stripper Lili St. Cyr, who's featured throughout (which isn't the case in STRIPORAMA, in which she appears only in a self-contained short called "Cinderella's Love Lesson") and model Bettie Page, who is, if anything, m...