Naked Ambition: Top 10 Memorable Movie Strippers

[HarveyDarkey]

Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy

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Played by: Natalie Wood

The eldest of two daughters of a domineering stage mom (played by a terrific Rosalind Russell), Louise Hovick is awkward and shy. But when her younger sister June—a talented vaudeville performer—elopes with a dancer, her mother focuses her energies on making Louise a star, even if that means dancing in a burlesque joint. It turns out that the sweet young lady possesses a real talent on stage—taking the stage name Gypsy Rose Lee, Louise becomes a hugely successful performer. Wood, a year after her memorable turn in West Side Story, is great here: she lets us see that beneath the verve and vitality of her stage persona are great reservoirs of sadness and desperation.

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/29/naked-ambition-top-10-memorable-movie-strippers/?iid=ent-article-populist-widget#gypsy-rose-lee-gypsy

[HopeHoops]

1. Demi Moore.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. For me it would be Valerie Perrine

I've been in lust/love with that lady since Slaughterhouse 5

[HopeHoops]

3. Well, "Striptease" was good, but then there was "Showgirls" (not a Demi Moore flick).

[NewJeffCT]

28. while Moore had the looks to play the part

I thought she ruined the movie - the book was hysterical and a lot of the minor characters were well done, but Moore was much too serious and intense an actress to play what should have gone to an actress with a lighter touch.

[HopeHoops]

29. None of that bothered me. I liked the movie and she was definitely hot.

Okay, okay. She's still hot. That's not my point.

[hifiguy]

4. It has to be Valerie P. She played Lenny Bruce's

stripper wife Honey in "Lenny." Incredibly hot woman in her day and a very underrated actress.

[HarveyDarkey]

5. That's the second movie on the list

along with a few I've never heard of.

[Tom Ripley]

6. I was really enjoying her performance in "Lenny" until my wife pointed out

that Perrine bore a remarkable resemblance to my mother.
Oooops!

[HopeHoops]

21. Well that will take the puffer out of the fish!

[Tom Ripley]

23. Yes indeed!

[HopeHoops]

24. There's no better way to deflate the unit.

[NewJeffCT]

30. Similar happened to me once

I was dating a woman who was just out of med school, and she was looking for a guy who wanted to be a stay at home dad. Sounded perfect for me... however, when I showed a picture to a friend of mine, the guy said she looked like a younger version of my Aunt Lucille. My Aunt was a sweet woman, but also a religious fanatic... and I couldn't get past that, so I never dated this woman again after that.

[lastlib]

20. YES!!!

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[jakeXT]

7. Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

[HarveyDarkey]

9. That was not on the list. Definitely worthy of consideration.

[ohiosmith]

8. Jennifer Beals "Flashdance".

[HarveyDarkey]

10. Surprisingly not on the list

[Tom Ripley]

22. That's got to be the world's strangest strip club

A working class titty bar where the patrons are content to watch performers do semi-artsy routines while remaining clothed.

[jakeXT]

26. I didn't know that the film was based on a real story of Maureen Marder and she only got $2300

I wonder what they really did at that club in Toronto

[Tom Ripley]

11. It doesn't bother me in the least that Salma Hayek is a pretty lousy actress

not at all

[HarveyDarkey]

13. That was one of the movies I'd never heard of

straight to DVD I'm guessing.

[jakeXT]

18. It opened on 2000 screens

Opening Weekend
$10,200,000 (USA) (21 January 1996) (2,004 Screens)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/business

[Tom Ripley]

12. Joanne Woodward in "The Stripper"

Pretty downbeat, but things written by William Inge tend to go that way.

[JonLP24]

14. Computer is too slow to go through list

The top 2 from the top of my head is Lela Rochen and Vivica A. Fox. Probably not memorable as being a stripper was a very small part of those actresses' characters.

[CBGLuthier]

15. Mary Steenburgen won an Oscar playing Lynda Dummar

a part time stripper in Melvin and Howard and yes, she does do a wee bit of nudity in the role.

[HarveyDarkey]

16. Not on the list, and I've never seen that movie.

[Doc_Technical]

17. Sherilyn Fenn in "Ruby"

n/t

[pokerfan]

25. Marisa Tomei in 'The Wrestler' (nt)

[jakeXT]

27. Another List, strange

http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/movies/features/take-it-off-stripper-movies

[grntuscarora]

31. Harrumph.

My favorite is not in the Top Ten?! Seriously?

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