Goddess of love incarnate
Subtitle: the life of stripteuse Lili St. Cyr
By: Leslie Zemeckis
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781619025684
Subjects: Stripteasers; Biography
Description: "Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the "highest paid stripteaser in America." Lili led an incredible life--six marriages, romances with Orson Wells, Yul Brynner, Vic Damone, arrests on indecency charges, a number of suicide attempts -all alongside great fame and money. A bigger star than Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili was named one of the world's ten most beautiful women alongside Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot. Yet she lost it all, becoming a recluse in her final decades. Goddess of Love Incarnate is the definitive biography of this legendary figure, done with the cooperation of Lili's only surviving sister. But the book does more than fascinate readers with stories of a byone era; it reveals that behind the g-strings and the pasties stood a "complicated, eccentric, brilliant" woman, much loved and little understood. As an award winning documentary filmmaker and writer, Leslie Zemeckis restores Lili to her rightful place in American history in a way no other writer could"--