The film catches up with Shelly in the present. By now, the clock is at 30 years. And the show is over — or about to be. Le Razzle Dazzle, c’est mort . She is played by Pamela Anderson, who gives her character a trace of Marilyn Monroe breathiness.

Pamela Anderson's impressive turn in The Last Showgirl, bears witness to lives on the margins of big entertainment, where the lure of fame can vanish at the whim of commerce.

Now approaching her late 50s, Shelly (Pamela Anderson) has been a showgirl at the Razzle Dazzle revue for three decades. As one of the more senior dancers in the long-running Las Vegas institution, she is the unofficial mammy of the troupe,