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List Of Strippers
This is a list of strippers. Strippers of the past * Ann Corio * April March (born Velma Fern Worden) * Bernie Barker, world's oldest male stripper * Blaze Starr (born Fannie Belle Fleming) * Candy Barr (born Juanita Dale Slusher) * Carol Doda (born Carol Ann Doda) * Charmion * Chesty Morgan (born Ilona Wilczkowska) * Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon) * Fanne Foxe (born Annabel Villagra) * Glenda Kemp * Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Rose Louise Hovick, Louise Hovick) * Jennie Lee (aka The Bazoom Girl) * Josephine Baker/Joséphine Baker * Jean Mode * Lili St. Cyr (born Willis Marie Van Schaack) * Louise Wightman (Princess Cheyenne) * Mara Gaye (born Marjorie Helen Ginsberg) * Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida rietjeZelle) * Maud Allan * Phyllis Dixey * Sally Rand (born Harriet Helen Gould Beck) * Satan's Angel (born Angel Cecelia Helene Walker) * Sayuri Ichijō, Japan's most famous sex performer of the early 1970s, and star of director Tatsumi Kumashiro's ''Ichijo's We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strippers
A stripper or exotic dancer is a person whose occupation involves performing striptease in a public adult entertainment venue such as a strip club. At times, a stripper may be hired to perform at a bachelor party or other private event. Modern Americanized forms of stripping minimize interaction by strippers with customers, reducing the importance of ''tease'' in the performance in favor of speed to undress (''strip''). Not all strippers are comfortable dancing topless or fully nude, but in general, full nudity is common where not prohibited by law. The integration of the burlesque pole as a nearly ubiquitous prop has shifted the emphasis in the performance toward a more acrobatic, explicit expression compared to the slow-developing burlesque style. Most strippers work in strip clubs. A "house dancer" works for a particular club or franchise, while a "feature dancer" tends to have her own celebrity, touring a club circuit making appearances. Entertainers (dancers) are of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili St
''Lili'' is a 1953 American film released by MGM. It stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, and was also entered in the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. It was later adapted for the stage under the title ''Carnival!'' (1961). ''Lili's'' screenplay, written by Helen Deutsch, was based on a short story and treatment titled "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly" written by Paul Gallico, which in turn was based upon "The Man Who Hated People," a short story by Gallico that appeared in the October 28, 1950 issue of ''The Saturday Evening Post''. After the film's success, Gallico expanded his story into a 1954 novella entitled ''Love of Seven Dolls''. Plot Naive country girl Lili (Leslie Caron) arrives in a provincial town in hopes of locating an old friend of her late father, only to find that he has died. A local sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vednita Carter
Vednita Carter is an American anti-sex trafficking activist, author, and executive director of the "Breaking Free" organization which helps women escape prostitution. Biography Carter grew up in Twin Cities, Minnesota. Unable to afford college, she responded to an ad looking for dancers, which turned out to be an ad looking for strippers. Carter saw many women in her profession migrate to prostitution, she said it was a "stepping stone to prostitution". She worked in the industry for a year before she was able to escape. In 1989, Carter began to work with women in prostitution in Minnesota at a different agency, which later closed, and became program director. In 1996, Carter founded Breaking Free, an organization that aids girls and women in exiting prostitution. She subsequently became this organization's executive director, and the program expanded to offer more support, including: "emergency services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical assistance, legal assistance to vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn West
Evelyn West (January 30, 1921 – November 14, 2004Social Security Death Index), Evelyn "$50,000 Treasure Chest" West, and "The Hubba-Hubba Girl", was a vedette and burlesque legend of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Early years Evelyn West was born Amy May Coomer, in Adair County, Kentucky. Her parents were Henderson and Annie Coomer of the poor farming community of Elroy, Adair County, Kentucky. A few years after her birth, her parents divorced. Annie and Amy moved to Illinois where her mother remarried Curtis Hinds of Petersburg, Illinois, where Amy grew up on a farm.Her two brothers, many years older than Amy remained in Kentucky with their father. Amy had many younger siblings remaining in Adair County as well. Amy started working at the Illinois State Fair in a sideshow. Her career was not recognized until she was seen in a 1940s newspaper clipping for a performance in Calumet City. During World War Two, Amy and her mother, Annie came to Sacramento, California. Amy wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempest Storm
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks; February 29, 1928 – April 20, 2021), also dubbed "The Queen Of Exotic Dancers," was an American burlesque star and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand, and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Her career as an exotic dancer spanned more than 60 years, and she was still performing in the early 21st century. Early life Tempest Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks on February 29, 1928, in Eastman, Georgia. She left school in seventh grade, and in 2016, she revealed that she had been sexually abused at that approximate time in her life. At 14, she worked as a waitress in Columbus, Georgia, where she quickly married a U.S. Marine in order to emancipate herself from her parents; she had the marriage annulled after 24 hours. At 15, she married a Columbus shoe salesman, whose sister worked with her at a hosiery mill. Storm said in a 1968 interview with film revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichijo's Wet Lust
''aka'' ''Ichijo's Wet Desire'', ''Drenched Passion'', ''Sayuri Ichijo: Moist Desire'', ''Following Desire'' ''and'' ''Sayuri Ichijō: Wet Lust'' is a 1972 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's ''Roman porno'' series, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro and starring the famous stripper Sayuri Ichijō as herself, and co-starring Kazuko Shirakawa and Hiroko Isayama. Considered one of the best films in the series, in 1999 Japanese critics voted it one of the 100 best Japanese films of the 20th century. Synopsis Famous real-life stripper Sayuri Ichijō appears as herself in this fictional account of her daily life. The story involves Ichijō's relationships with two men: Her boyfriend, and the strip-club owner. Ichijō considers her work in striptease to be an art-form and pushes the boundaries of legality. Harumi, a younger stripper determined to outdo Ichijō, contributes to the ever-increasing extremity of the strip acts, which result in continuous problems with the police, and numerous arrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsumi Kumashiro
was a Japanese film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning '' Roman Porno'' films, such as ''Ichijo's Wet Lust'' (1972) and '' The Woman with Red Hair'' (1979). He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early Nikkatsu Roman Porno era, with many box-office successes, and films regularly appearing on the yearly Best Ten lists of the mainstream ''Kinema Junpo'' and '' Eiga Geijutsu'' film journals. Kumashiro has been called, "the most consistently successful director in Japan's cinematic history,"Weisser, p.204. and Allmovie calls him, "arguably the most important Japanese director to emerge during the 1970s." Life and career Early life Tatsumi Kumashiro was born on April 24, 1927 in Saga, on Kyūshū—the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. His father was a pharmaceuticals merchant and judo master descended from the ''samurai'' class. A strict disciplinarian, Kumashiro's father believed in the warrior philosophy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo as written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Quarterly
''Film Quarterly'', a journal devoted to the study of film, television, and visual media, is published by University of California Press. It publishes scholarly analyses of international and Hollywood cinema as well as independent film, including documentary and animation. The journal also revisits film classics; examines television and digital and online media; reports from international film festivals; reviews recent academic publications; and on occasion addresses installations, video games and emergent technologies. It welcomes established scholars as well as emergent voices that bring new perspectives to bear on visual representation as rooted in issues of diversity, race, lived experience, gender, sexuality, and transnational histories. ''Film Quarterly'' brings timely critical and intersectional approaches to criticism and analyses of visual culture. Since 2013, it has been edited by B. Ruby Rich. Working with her are associate editor Rebecca Prime, assistant editor Marc Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satan's Angel
Angel Cecelia Helene Walker (September 18, 1944 – April 11, 2019) was an American exotic dancer specializing in stripping and burlesque under her stage name Satan's Angel. Career Satan's Angel started dancing in San Francisco in 1961, after winning an amateur strip contest at North Beach nightclub Moulin Rouge. Her full moniker is Satan's Angel, the Devil's Own Mistress, Queen of the Fire Tassels. She has also danced under the stage names Tassel Tossin' Angel, Angel Dahl, Angel the Body, Satana Angel, and Satin Angel. Satan's Angel's signature act is to light her tassels aflame, "then extinguishing the flames by means of strenuous mammary rotation". She would sometimes twirl five tassels at a time—two on her nipples, two on her buttocks, and one on her navel. She performed in San Francisco in the 1960s, dancing at small and bigger nightclubs including the Esquire, the Galaxie and the Condor Club. She was also bass player in The Hummingbirds, an all girl topless cover ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Rand
Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck. Early life Rand was born in the village of Elkton, Hickory County, Missouri. Her father, William Beck, was a West Point graduate and retired U.S. Army colonel, while her mother, Nettie (Grove) Beck, was a school teacher and part-time newspaper correspondent.''Dictionary of Missouri Biography'', Lawrence O. Christensen, University of Missouri Press, 1999. The family moved to Jackson County, Missouri while she was still in grade school. Helen got her start on the stage quite early, working as a chorus girl at Kansas City's Empress Theater when she was only 13. An early supporter of her talent was Goodman Ace, drama critic for the ''Kansas City Journal'' who saw her performing in a Kansas City nightclub and wrote glowing reviews. After st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Dixey
Phyllis Dixey (10 February 1914 – 2 June 1964) was an English singer, actress, dancer and impresario. Her earlier career was as a singer in variety shows in Britain. During World War II, she joined ENSA and entertained the British forces. She sang, recited and posed in naked tableaux which were very popular. Early life and career Phyllis Selina Dixey was born in Merton, Surrey to Ernest Dixey and Phyllis Selina Haycroft. She had one elder brother, Ernest Dixey (b. 1912). In 1938, she married Jack Tracey. In 1942, she formed her own company of girls and rented the Whitehall Theatre in London to put on a review called ''The Whitehall Follies''. This was the first striptease show put on in the West End of London, but not the first show to have nude studies as the Windmill reviews were already in existence. She stayed at the Whitehall for the next five years producing the ''Peek-a-boo'' reviews. Her performance was at the time considered artistic and she thought that it was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Allan
Maud Allan (born as either Beulah Maude Durrant or Ulah Maud Alma Durrant;Birthname given as Ulah Maud Alma DurrantMcConnell, Virginia A. ''Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco'', University of Nebraska Press (January 1, 2005), page 294 27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her '' Dance of the Seven Veils''. In World War I, she faced accusations of being a lesbian spy, for which she sued unsuccessfully for libel. Early life Maud Allan was born Ulah Maud Allan Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1873 to William Allan Durrant and Isabella, adopted daughter of Mrs. Dredger of Toronto. She was their first daughter and second child. A younger sister by two years to Theodore Durrant (1871–1898). As a young person, Allan loved piano and was very musically gifted. Her teacher was Miss Lichenstein, a well-known piano teacher in Toronto and Montreal at the time. In 1887, her mother, brother and herself move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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