[Bounci]

The 4th and final video from Murder at the Vanities (1934) (not including the video I posted in A Pat of Appreciation thread, that is) sees a jazz act involving none other than Duke Ellington playing the piano, while Gertrude Michael and a host of black girls among the showgirls dance about in see through costumes and thongs! You can clearly see the breasts of some of the girls in this act, which also includes another murder during the act! That happens to the unfortunate Miss Michael, whose backside you see when she hits the floor during a machine gun finale that is part of the act. Unfortunately a live bullet was not, and Gertrude ends up hitting the deck. In real life, Gertrude Michael - best known for the Mae West film I'm No Angel (1933) - died herself aged just 53, at the stroke of midnight on the final day of 1964 of 'natural causes.' Now that's spooky!