Applause was a film directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1929 about a former burlesque queen and her transformation from the toast of the town to a faded memory of glamour. Later scenes reveal her daughter pursuing the same exact career as her mother. This film demonstrates some of the attitudes in society towards burlesque, even though the art form was immensly popular.
(A History of the Movie Musical Gotta Sing Gotta Dance, pg 41).

Mark Hellinger’s Naked City starring Howard Duff, Barry Fitzgerald and Dorothy Hart is an example of other films made in the late 1940’s to the 50’s about the wrong kind of girl. This is a B- girl a burlesque dancer, one step above a common hooker. Other films with the same themes of homicide, and police investigation are City that Never Sleeps (Republic 1953), where a wife earns more than her husband and he wants to leave her for a burlesque dancer, the end results are blackmail in this mystery.
(Body and Soul Jazz and Blues in American Film, 160-161).