The Stripper (film)

The Stripper
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Produced by Jerry Wald
Curtis Harrington (associate producer)
Written by William Inge (play)
Meade Roberts
Starring Joanne Woodward
Richard Beymer
Claire Trevor
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography Ellsworth Fredericks
Edited by Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox
Release dates
  • June 19, 1963 (1963-06-19) (New York City)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2,175,000[1]
Box office $1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[2]

The Stripper (1963) is a drama film about a struggling, aging actress-turned-stripper, played by Joanne Woodward, and the people she knows. It is based on the play A Loss of Roses by William Inge.

This was the feature film debut of director Franklin J. Schaffner, and co-starred Carol Lynley, Robert Webber, and Richard Beymer. Also appearing as Madame Olga was real-life stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. It was the first Schaffner film to feature a score by prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith, who would later work with Schaffner on such films as Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil.[3]

William Travilla was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.

The film was first designed to be a vehicle for two Fox contract stars, Marilyn Monroe and Pat Boone, with Monroe dying in 1962 and Boone turning down the film on moral grounds.[4]

Plot

She dreamed of a career in the movies, but Lila Green has found little success. She joins a group of traveling entertainers and is abandoned near her Kansas hometown by manager and boyfriend Ricky Powers.

Old friend Helen Baird takes her into her home, where Helen's young son Kenny becomes infatuated with Lila. Somewhat delusional, she at first sees a future for their relationship, until coming to her senses.

Ricky returns and offers Lila a job doing a striptease. In need of money, she accepts. Kenny witnesses her show and finally realizes she is not the dream girl he loved.

Cast

Production

20th Century Fox originally wanted to make the film with Marilyn Monroe and Pat Boone, though Monroe would die before the film was made and Boone refused to do it as he felt the film's message was immoral.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p253
  2. ↑ "Top Rental Features of 1963", Variety, 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  3. ↑ Clemmensen, Christian. Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) tribute at Filmtracks.com. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  4. ↑ p.8 Verswijver, Leo Pat Boone Interview in Movies were Always Magical: Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950 McFarland, 2003
  5. ↑
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