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Dixie Evans aka. “The Marilyn Monroe Of Burlesque”..
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Lois DeFee aka. “Queen Of The Amazons”..
Part of a promo photo series shot in the early-40’s..
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Sally Lane (and her Monkey)
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Taffey O’Neil aka. “Miss Heavy Equipment”..
Page from a short pictorial/article on Ms. O’Neil, featured in an unidentified Men’s Magazine.....
Vintage 8x10 photo of Daisy and Violet Hilton, via burlyqnell.
Vintage 5x7 of Rose la Rose on a bear skin rug…I have read that she actually killed this bear, but I have no idea if that is true.
Happy birthday Sally Rand!
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A candid photo captures baggy-pants comic Buddy O’Day ogling the ample bosom of Evelyn West, in this burlesque skit.. The duo appeared on stage at the ‘Stardust Theatre’ in St. Louis, Missouri; sometime in the mid-1960’s..
Fabulous Fanny
Amazing sequential photos of Helena Gardner, dancingon stage in Chicago c. 1955. Originally posted by tikitacky.
Signed vintage 8x10 photo of Sally Rand, via burlyqnell.
Via pulppassion: “America’s most celebrated stripper describes her rise to stardom as theQueen of Burlesque, in 1930s New York. Touching and hilarious, Gypsy Rose Lee shares her Golden Rule: Do unto others … before they do you.”
Carla Montez, “The Sunkissed Beauty” via burleskateer.
Noel Toy Young, “The Chinese Sally Rand” via glamarazzi.
