The Stripper

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The Stripper ★★½ Woman of Summer 1963

A middle-aged stripper in a traveling show returns to the small Kansas town of her youth. Left stranded, she moves in with an old friend whose teenage son promptly falls in love with her. Based on the play “A Loss of Roses” by William Inge. 95m/B VHS . Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber, Gypsy Rose Lee; D: Franklin J. Schaffner; M: Jerry Goldsmith.

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