Phyllis Dixey(1914-1964)
- Actress
Phyllis Dixey was Britain's wartime "Queen of Striptease". Her heyday
began in 1940 when she took on the lease of the Whitehall Theatre in
London. With her legendary "Peek-a-boo" revues she became enormously
popular, acquiring a word-of-mouth reputation for sauciness that, in
fact, was never quite matched by her performances. The Whitehall played
to wartime audiences as packed as those of its rival, the more famous
Windmill Theatre. Dixey eventually fell from favour as raunchier
competitors began to appear and finally she was made bankrupt. At the
time of her early death she was working as a cook.