Editing Striptease (section)

====1960s–1970s====
In 1960, the film ''[[Beat Girl]]'' cast [[Christopher Lee]] as a sleazy Soho strip club owner who gets stabbed to death by a stripper. ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' (1962), features [[Natalie Wood]] as the famous burlesque queen [[Gypsy Rose Lee]] in her memorable rendition of "[[Let Me Entertain You (Gypsy)|Let Me Entertain You]]". It was re-made for TV in 1993 Starring [[Bette Midler]] as [[Rose Thompson Hovick|Mama Rose]] and [[Cynthia Gibb]] as Gypsy Rose Lee. ''The Stripper'' (1963) featured Gypsy Rose Lee, herself, giving a trademark performance in the title role. A documentary film, ''Dawn in Piccadilly'', was produced in 1962 at the Windmill Theatre. In 1964, ''We Never Closed'' (British Movietone) depicted the last night of the Windmill Theatre. In 1965, the feature film ''[[Viva Maria!]]'' starred [[Brigitte Bardot]] and [[Jeanne Moreau]] as two girls who perform a striptease act and get involved in revolutionary politics in South America.

Also produced in 1965 was ''Carousella'', a documentary about Soho striptease artistes, directed by [[John Irvin]]. Another documentary film, which looked at the unglamorous side of striptease, is the 1966 film called,"Strip", filmed at the Phoenix Club in Soho.
''[[Secrets of a Windmill Girl]]'' (1966) featured [[Pauline Collins]] and April Wilding and was directed by [[Arnold L. Miller]]. The film has some fan dancing scenes danced by an ex-Windmill Theatre artiste. ''[[The Night They Raided Minsky's]]'' (1968) gives a possibly legendary account of the birth of striptease at Minsky's Burlesque theatre in New York. In 1968, the sci-fi film ''[[Barbarella (film)|Barbarella]]'' depicted [[Jane Fonda]] stripping in [[zero-gravity]] conditions whilst wearing her spacesuit. ''[[Marlowe (1969 film)|Marlowe]]'' (1969) stars [[Rita Moreno]] playing a stripper, in the finale of the movie simultaneously delivering dialogue with the title character and performing a vigorous dance on stage. [[The Beatles]] movie ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' has a scene where all the men on the tour bus go to a gentleman's club and watch a woman strip on stage.

''[[Ichijo's Wet Lust]]'' (1972), Japanese director [[Tatsumi Kumashiro]]'s award-winning [[Roman Porno|''Roman porno'']] film featured the country's most famous stripper, Sayuri Ichijō, starring as herself.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:155671|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718051841/http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:155671|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 18, 2012|title=Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta Yokujo|access-date=2007-06-26|work=[[Allmovie]]}}</ref> A British film production of 1976 is the film ''Get 'Em Off'', produced by [[Harold Baim]]. Alain Bernardin the owner of the Crazy Horse in Paris directed the film,"Crazy Horse de Paris" [1977]. ''Paul Raymond's Erotica'' (1981) stars Brigitte Lahaie and Diana Cochran and was directed by Brian Smedley-Aston. The Dance routines were filmed at the Raymond Revuebar Theatre.{{clear left}}