The Film: Based on vaudeville performer Gypsy Rose Lee’s novel, 'The G-String Murders', Burlesque is credited with coining the term ‘grindhouse’.

Barbara Stanywick plays Dixie (renamed from Gypsy, geddit?), a performer working at a burlesque theatre when two strippers are killed.

The Scene Set-Up: Dixie rips through a giant paper heart, takes centre stage, and sings her signature number ‘The G-String’. The audience eats out of the palm of her shimmering hand.

The Sauce: Bare minimum. This is 1943, y’know.