Phyllis Dixey

[marlon]

Phyllis Dixey (1914-1964)

Phyllis Dixey (10 February 1914 in Croydon — 2 June 1964 in Epsom ) was a British Stage actress and impresario. Her earlier career was as a singer in variety shows in Britain. During World War II, she joined ENSA and entertained the British forces. She sang, recited and posed in naked tableaux for them, which were very popular.

In 1942 she formed her own company of girls and rented the Whitehall Theatre in London to put on a review called The Whitehall Follies. This was the first striptease show put on in the West End of London, but not the first show to have nude studies as the Windmill reviews were already in existence. She stayed at the Whitehall for the next five years producing the Peek-a-boo reviews. Her performance was at the time considered artistic and she thought that it was an art form, although the mostly male audience doubtless had other thoughts. She was known as the 'Queen of Striptease'.

By 1947 the tastes of the London audience had changed, and Phyllis Dixey was forced to return to the provinces. She was not able to adapt to the direction that the public required. Leaving the stage, in the late 1950s, bankrupt. She died in 1964 at the age of 50.

In 1978 Thames Television produced a drama documentary on the life on Phyllis Dixey. The documentary was televised and had a memorable performance by Lesley Anne-Down in the role of an adult Phyllis Dixey.

[zerosympa2]

Here are one or two others, plus some of Ms Dixey herself.

Such a sad ending for such a lovely lady.

[AceXX]

I believe that the majority of the links to clips posted on the Topless TV thread concerning the above docudrama are dead. However a few months ago I gathered together the 20 or so clips I'd downloaded from that thread and put them in a rar file, (no password needed) and re-posted them. The link to that rar file is below.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/jq...ylis_Dixey.rar


Enjoy


AceXX

[beutelwolf]

Parade, 3 April 1971
Poor image, just of historical interest

[AceXX]

If anybody wants to download the complete programme it was recently posted on another thread by Moon Raker just follow the link below to his post.

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=3351


Cheers


AceXX