Noirsville Clips of the Week

Topless Nightclub Acts , Topless GoGo Dancers, Burlesque and Strippers. 

Four clips illustrating the difference between French Film Noir, Hollywood Classic Noir, Transitional Noir and reality.

Voyage Sans Espoir (1943) - Clip # 1 - A Classic French Film Noir-  depicted is Louis Salou as Chief Inspector Sorbier, Jean Marais as Alain Ginestier, and an uncredited night club dancer. My how progressive they were already for 1943.

The Crimson Kimono (1959)  Clip #2  - sixteen years later here is Gloria Pall playing Sugar Torch in your typical approved by the Legion of Decency and MPPC  - Hollywood Classic Noir stripper still depicted in vaudeville era granny panties. doing a lame strip routine. 

The Savage Eye (1960)  Clip #3 is from an Experimental "Dramatised Documentary" a Beat Noir where we see what L.A. was really like in 1960 and what the real strippers were wearing at The Near 'N Far, a strip joint somewhere in L.A. No wonder theaters were loosing money, here was West Coast reality.

If anybody remembers where the Near 'N Far was address-wise put it in the comments, thanx.

Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name (1969) - Clip # 4 - Topless GoGo dancing by Rita Bennett at The  Purple Onion in The Village. 

Noir Vérité

"Lovely, shapely, and captivating brunette Rita Bennett was born on January 26, 1941 in Glen Cove, New York. An only child, Rita grew up in a dysfunctional household in Long Island. Unhappy with her turbulent home life, Bennett focused primarily on her burgeoning comely looks as a teenager. Rita left home at age sixteen and moved into a room in a Manhattan apartment with five girls who she barely knew. Bennett soon started modeling and was featured in ads in both newspapers and magazines as well as on billboards (she even was the face of an ad campaign for a Manhattan department store). Rita appeared in her first soft-core film in 1961. Among the notable East Coast soft-core cinema directors that Bennett appeared in films for are Joseph W. Sarno, Barry Mahon, William Rose, and John Amero and Lem Amero. Outside of acting, Rita also worked as a stripper in the tri-state area on the East Coast and managed to land the occasional small role in a major mainstream movie in which she was cast to type as a stripper. Bennett quit acting and stripping in the mid-1980's and went on to focus on fashion and animal welfare instead. Alas, Rita had serious problems with alcoholism throughout her life. Bennett died in 2017. Her body was unclaimed and ultimately wound up buried in a potter's field."

- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders & Ashley West - The Rialto Report