The Stripper | |
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Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner |
Screenplay by | Meade Roberts |
Based on | A Loss of Roses (1959 play) by William Inge |
Produced by | Jerry Wald |
Starring | Joanne Woodward Richard Beymer Claire Trevor Carol Lynley |
Cinematography | Ellsworth Fredericks |
Edited by | Robert L. Simpson |
Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,175,000[1] or $2.5 million[2] |
Box office | $1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[3] |
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.
This was the feature film debut of director Franklin J. Schaffner, and co-starred Carol Lynley, Robert Webber, and Richard Beymer. Also appearing as Madame Olga was real-life stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. It was the first Schaffner film to feature a score by prolific composer Jerry Goldsmith, who later worked with Schaffner on Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil.[4]
William Travilla was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
The film was intended to be a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe and Pat Boone, two Fox contract stars, but Monroe died in 1962, and Boone refused the role on moral grounds.[5]