Russ Meyer Films, Then Loses His First Film French Peep Show True Burlesque
28 year old Russ
Meyer filming his first film, now lost, with producer Peter DeCenzie
peering over his shoulder at the talent. Russ had done industrials, but
French Peep Show was his first nudie cutie, and consisted of an
elaborate staged burlesque show at the El Rey Theater. DeCenzie slipped
and fell while ogling during production and spent some time in
traction. If any copies of the film remained, it would have been a
valuable artifact, not only of a typical, if torrid example of a night
of Burlesque, it would also featured the acts of Tempest Storm, Lily Lamont,
Shalimar and other peelers, and unlike the lame films done around the
same time as Irving Klaw's, it was staged and featured more than a
single figure vamping. It would have probably also been the first
example of Meyer "shooting from below" which he used to great effect in
every subsequent film.
Even this 34 page program is quite scarce, but at least one or two still exist.
The French Peep Show Program 1952 Collection Jim Linderman
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