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The format usually called for two lowbrow burlesque comedians, several showgirls, and a featured burlesque dancer. Tops in Burlesque headlined burlesque star Betty Rowland; Tomb It May Concern was a comedy sketch set in Egypt, with explorers discovering dancing girls among ancient tombs. These "for men only" attractions sold so well that Merle ...
Henrietta Freda Pillard Stone (September 3, 1888 – after 1946), known as Etta Pillard, was an American vaudeville and burlesque performer, in a dancing act with her husband George Stone during the 1910s and 1920s.
Vedette is a French word that designates the star of a show, at the top of the billing. [1] The meaning of the term has changed over the years. From the early twentieth century, it began to be used for the main female artists in cabaret shows such as burlesque, vaudeville, music hall or revue.
Bacon's career in burlesque began in the 1920s in Paris. In a 1930 interview, Bacon stated she decided to become a dancer when she visited Paris despite never having had any training. While in Paris, she met Maurice Chevalier and later premiered in his revue. [6] During her career, she used bubbles, flowers and fans in her nude dance routines. [7]
Rowland was born to Alvah and Ida Rowland on January 23, 1916, in Columbus, Ohio. [4] Her father was an accountant who lost his job during the Great Depression.Betty and her sisters Dian and Roz Elle all started out as dancers in vaudeville before making the transition into burlesque.
Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) [3] 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. Rand got her start as a chorus girl before working as an acrobat and traveling theater performer.
"Burlesque is more than stripping," she said. "It is beautiful costumes, comics, production numbers and much more." [1] La Rose was said to have been the first strip tease dancer to be paid over $2,000 a week. [2] At the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, she was reported to have commanded $2,500 a week on the national burlesque circuit ...
By 1923, she started performing as a solo burlesque dancer, performing an early form of striptease. For one contract in Cleveland, she presented a striptease extending over 54 weeks, removing an item of clothing every week. [5] Over the weeks, as her clothes became fewer, customer demand increased and ticket prices rose.