Well
folks, Lili St. Cyr was born as Willis Marie Van Schaack in
Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1918. She had a sister, Rosemary
Van Schaack Minsky. Her grandparents, the Klarquists, reared
her and her two show business sisters, Dardy Orlando and Barbara
Moffett. Having taken ballet lessons throughout her youth,
she began to dance professionally as a chorus line girl in
Hollywood. Unlike other women who have stroke-of-luck stories
about being plucked from the chorus line and selected for
a feature role, St. Cyr had to beg her manager at the club
to let her do a solo act. From her self-choreographed act
she eventually landed a bit part at a club called the Music
Box in San Francisco, with an act called the Duncan Sisters.
It was here that she came to a revelation: A dancer's salary
was only a small fraction of what the featured star's salary
was. The difference? The featured star was nude.
She
had an illustrious career and is one of the founding girls
in the "burlesque" scene. After retirement,
she started a lingerie line until her death in 1999.
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