Lady of Burlesque

Comic Biff (Michael O'Shea) pursuing dancer Dixie (Barbara Stanwyck), who's off to the bar next door to help out waiter Wong (Beal Wong), injured in his boss's jealous rage over another dancer who's since been murdered, in Lady Of Burlesque, 1943.

After a backstage assault, burlesque dancer Dixie (Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens) commiserates with ardent new pal, comic Biff (Michael O'Shea), early in Lady Of Burlesque, 1943, from a novel by Gypsy Rose Lee.

One of the milder numbers, "Four Shows A Day" by Sammy Cahn and Harry Akst, Barbara Stanwyck (as "Dixie") pursued by comic Biff (Michael O'Shea) as she tempts the crowd, in William A. Wellman's Lady Of Burlesque, 1943.