Shelly's Leg
completed movie

Shelly's Leg (2025)

16 min/ep Documentary

In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco - one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces.

Cast

Angela DiMarco
Angela DiMarco Angela DiMarco
Kody Harvard
Kody Harvard Kody Harvard
Steve Vanderzee Steve Vanderzee
Andy Dopieralski
Andy Dopieralski Andy Dopieralski
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner Kathleen Turner Narrator

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