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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.....
Joan Collins makes shimmy coach Candy Barr proud, in this wild scene from Seven Thieves (1960)—and yes, that *is* Eli Wallach, playing her beatnik saxman :)
Rare video of Candy Barr… and her furious shimmy.
“If cowgirls look like Candy Barr, why do those crazy cowboys kiss their horses?”
Jack Ruby, backstage at his Dallas burlesque club.
Via youngmistergrace: Candy Barr (in white) tutors a young Joan Collins on how to dance to jazzy saxophone music, in preparation for Collins’ role as a showgirl in the 1960 film, Seven Thieves.
(via burleskateer)
Daaaaang! Candy Barr, scanned from the September ‘63 issue of ‘SIR!’ magazine by burleskateer.
