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Kelly DiNardo's Books

Gilded Lili
Oct.16.2007
Before Dita Von Teese ever splashed around in an oversized martini glass, before Madonna ever donned her cone bra for the “Blond Ambition” tour, even before Norma Jean Mortensen became Marilyn Monroe, there was Lili St. Cyr. This glamorous, platinum blond queen of burlesque influenced these 20th century sex symbols as well as popular culture itself for decades, yet her story has...