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 was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as a dancer who finds out her Las Vegas show is closing. In interviews with UPI, Anderson said the film helped her address making a living being objectified,

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,