The Professor Misbehaves
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lawrence Raimond
Charlie Crafts
Cheyenne
Mona Raye
Mary Blair
Carl Princi
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Professor Peter G. Stringheimer is head of a striptease college that prepares young women for careers in burlesque. On enrollment day, Stringheimer tells the students about the college's requirements and emphasizes that they must possess qualities beyond mere beauty. After the students participate in "gymnastic" exercises to tone their bodies, Stringheimer delivers a lecture on the history of stripping and claims to have invented striptease dancing. When a student challenges this assertion, citing the French teacher Pierre Le Smelle, Stringheimer disparages Le Smelle. Another student complains that Stringheimer prohibits them from performing "bumps and grinds" while Le Smelle encourages this technique. Stringheimer informs the students that he regards striptease dancing as an art form and derides Le Smelle's efforts. Later in the students' dormitory, some students dream of performing, while others raid the ice-box and discuss bananas. Eventually, after further classes in posture, body makeup and fencing, and passing their written exams, the students reach graduation day on which they have to perform dances for the professor. Meanwhile, in Le Smelle's school in Paris, which is conducted more like a salon, the dancers are regarded more as models, than strippers. Back in the United States, one of Stringheimer's graduates has been performing for forty-two weeks at New York burlesque theater with a routine that includes bumps and grinds. Due to his stubborn opposition to these movements, Stringheimer is now a broken man and reduced to working as a doorman/utility man at the theater.
Director
Lawrence Raimond
Cast
Charlie Crafts
Cheyenne
Mona Raye
Mary Blair
Carl Princi
Harry Keatan
Reina Bonoyer
Arline Hunter
Virginia Valentine
Chabing
Lynn Davis
Dona Hunter
Ilona Brown
Lauren Lavelle
Carl Princi
Crew
Hal Graham
Lawrence Raimond
Lawrence Raimond
Lawrence Raimond
Lawrence Raimond
Lawrence Raimond
Harry Smith
Allen F. Stewart
Allen F. Stewart
Elinor Stocks
Elinor Stocks
Elinor Stocks
William C. Thompson
Film Details
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Notes
All of the heavily cut copies available for viewing carried the reissue title of The Art of Burlesque. A number of the original credits were missing from the viewed print and were added from censorship documents in the NYSA. Actor Harry Keatan's surname was misspelled "Keaton" in the onscreen credits. This film was also distributed under the title The Gay Exotics and May also have circulated as Striptease College and Striptease College Girls. No reviews have been located for any of these titles.
