The one and only Phyllis Dixey
Phyllis Dixey
Until the swinging sixties Britain was a very straight laced place with strict alcohol licensing and gambling laws and all forms of public nudity frowned on. It’s surprising therefore that probably the UK’s best known striptease artist Phyllis Dixey was at her peak in the repressed 1940s and early 1950s.
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Blue plaque for Phyllis Dixey
Phyllis Dixey
Phyllis Dixey was a pioneering striptease performer whose daring routine pushed back the boundaries of public decency in 1940s Britian.
But a plan to honour Phyllis Dixey, the first stripper to appear in London's West End, with an English Heritage blue plaque has met with fierce resistance.
The government a...
