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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.....
The Art of Burlesque: Katharina Bosse’s New Burlesque portraits.
The Art of Burlesque: ‘The Gold Painted Stripper, 1950’ by Weegee (1899-1968)
The Art of Burlesque: Susan Meiselas’ Carnival Strippers.
Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. Meiselas’ frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention.
Produced during the early years of the women’s movement, Carnival Strippers reflects the struggle for identity and self-esteem that characterized a complex era of change.
Showgirls backstage, via retrogirly.
(via vigorton2)
Vintage Video: Rita Hayworth gives classic burlesque moves (watch for that hair toss and glove peel!) the Hollywood treatment in the 1946 hit, Gilda.
YOWZA. Thanks, curveappeal!
“The most sensational woman anyone ever saw, or ever will.” —Ernest Hemingway on Josephine Baker.
(via strangerains)
The Art of Burlesque: Blaze Starr poses for Baltimore artist Joseph Sheppard (top); the finished painting (bottom left), as featured in a 1955 men’s magazine (bottom right).
RIP, Joan Arline. We were honored to know you.
Video teaser for London’s Hurly Burly Show, starring Polly Rae. I’m pretty sure there was a sequined nun in there somewhere, but I can’t be sure… on account of having my mind blown by bedazzled legwarmers around the 01:30 mark.