Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr.

Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the &quot;highest paid stripteaser in America.&quot; Wallace was so fascinated by Lili that out of all the presidents and celebrities he interviewed over a long career, she was the one he remained fixated on. Her beauty had that kind of effect. <br><br>Lili led an incredible life - six marriages, romances with Orson Wells, Yul Brenner, Vic Damone, arrests on indecency charges, a number of suicide attempts - all alongside great fame and money. A bigger star than Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili was named one of the world's ten most beautiful women alongside Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot. Yet she lost it all, becoming a recluse in her final decades. <br><br><i>Goddess of Love Incarnate</i> is the definitive biography of this legendary figure, done with the cooperation of Lili's only surviving sister. But the book does more than fascinate readers with stories of a byone era; it reveals that behind the g-strings and the pasties stood a &quot;complicated, eccentric, brilliant&quot; woman, much loved and little understood. As an award winning documentary filmmaker and writer, Leslie Zemeckis restores Lili to her rightful place in American history in a way no other writer could.