July 14th, 2006
Miss Trixie a Golden Feathered Pheasant
“A woman in a many-armed “Kali”-styled costume drops amid a group of boasting black dice players and sends them running. And in her triumphant scene, the feathered Trixie manages to crash through the roof of an all-male club, just as the members are receiving massages and complaining that this is the only place left to them to get away from women who are “horning in everywhere;” Trixie claps delightedly as the startled men react with high-pitched squeals and scamper for cover. A very “deflating” moment. Over all, the film takes quite a few shots at the male ego-men as overgrown children, men who can’t recognize the kisses of their own wives, men who refuse to accept defeat even when hoisted on their own petards-a tone surely attributable to its three female writers.” -
In the 1930’s MGM produced a closet drama called “Madam Satan”…Steven Vance describes the closet drama as “probably the wackiest semi-musical comedy/romance/drama/disaster film you’re likely to encounter in this lifetime.”
Lillian Roth played the role of “Trixie” in the double entendres based vixen film.
-Lillian Roth is a leggy, enthusiastic “Trixie” whose Jolson-esque singing style hasn’t aged well; Lillian’s chaotic private life included alcoholism and eight divorces and was later dramatized by Susan Hayward in a feature called “I’ll Cry Tommorrow”
Incomplete…but started…