The Stripper is a 1963 American drama film about a struggling, aging actress-turned-stripper, played by Joanne Woodward, and the people she knows.

This was the feature film debut of director Franklin J. Schaffner, and co-starred Carol Lynley, Robert Webber, and Richard Beymer.

Also appearing as Madame Olga was real-life stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

[4] William Travilla was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.

She joins a group of traveling entertainers and is abandoned near her Kansas hometown by manager and boyfriend Ricky Powers.