The Stripper

The Stripper (1963)

The story of a girl... And the men who led her to become "The Stripper."

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

Date of release
1963-06-19
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

The Stripper is a 1963 American 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.

Production

The film was based on a play by William Inge, A Loss of Roses. Inge's first three plays had been turned into success movies - Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic and Bus Stop - and film rights to A Loss of Roses were sold to Buddy Adler of 20th Century Fox before the play was produced for a reported $200,000. The play was a flop despite introducing Warren Beatty in the role of Kenny.

In August 1960 Fox's head of production, Bob Goldstein - who replaced Buddy Adler - assigned the project to Jerry Wald. Alfred Hayes wrote a script and the title was changed to Celebration. Marilyn Monroe and Pat Boone were sought as leads.

Eventually Jose Ferrer was chosen to direct, with Joanne Woodward and Richard Beymer to star (both actors were under contract to Fox). However Ferrer left the project, causing it to be delayed. The job of directing went to Franklin Schaffner, who had worked in television. Schaffner was allowed to develop his own script with Meade Roberts.

Curtis Harrington worked on the movie as associate producer, under Jerry Wald. Harrington later wrote " I had little regard for Beymer, since I found him bland and uninteresting and not a very good actor. But I was thrilled to be able to work with the great Claire Trevor... I was also delighted to be working with Joanne Woodward."

Harrington admired Franklin Schaffner but called screenwriter Meade Robers "the most intensely neurotic writer I had ever met... He had so many nervous tics and mannerisms that I wanted to scream after every meeting with him, but we finally managed to hammer out an acceptable screenplay."

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