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I remember seeing a movie from around 1940 with Martha Raye in which she had a secondary role as a stripper.  In it, she sang a song about stripping that started something like this:  "It's on... it's off... it must be on or off..." and ended something like this:  "...you can plainly see, you haven't got a thing on me!"  (I have a vague recollection that this song was sung by her as a sort of Pavlovian response to hearing something, but I may be wrong about this.)  Can you please tell me the name of this movie?  Thank you.

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i believe  you are thinking of a film called 'Double or Nothing' starring Bing Crosby and Martha...

this link should help.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:xOTQrkO-l0wJ:www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25243/b...

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