Cyr was a notorious striptease artist of the 1940s and 1950s who replaced gypsy rose lee and ann corio on the burlesque queen pedestal Cyr, born willis marie van schaack on june 3, 1918, in minneapolis, minnesota, became one of the most iconic and refined burlesque performers of the 20th century. Lili actually took the stripper out of burlesque and put her squarely on the las vegas stage.
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Cyr was a woman of contradictions—a stripper who wore dior, balmain, and cartier onstage
She bared her body for a living.
Cyr, had attempted suicide by overdose several times, and audiences knew she was acting out her darkest hours. Lili starred in a few movies including the miami story and the naked and the dead, but her acting career didn’t blossom and she soon left it behind Cyr was a prominent burlesque stripteaser of the 1940s and 1950s, deemed the most famous woman in montreal during that period and billed as the anatomic bomb while performing at ciro's nightclub in hollywood, in 1947. Lili st cyr was one of the 20th century’s most celebrated burlesque stars
