Tag: Blaze Starr

Wonder girl & Burlesque

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from Wikipedia:

Gracie Allen

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(July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. She and George Burns are also both members of the Television Hall of Fame, having earned joint induction in 1988.

 Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California.

She soon began performing Irish folk dances with her three sisters, who were billed as “The Four Colleens.” In 1909 Allen joined her sister, Bessie, as a vaudeville performer. At a performance in 1922 Allen met George Burns and the two formed a comedy act. The two were married on January 7, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gracie Allen was born with heterochromia, giving her two different color eyes; one blue and one green.
Birth date mystery

Depending on the source, Gracie Allen is alleged to have been born on July 26 in 1895, 1896, 1902 or 1906. All public records held by the City and County of San Francisco were destroyed in the earthquake and great fire of April 1906.
 
Among Allen’s signature jokes was a dialogue in which Allen would claim that she was born in 1906, her foil would press her for proof or corroborating information; she would say that her birth certificate had been destroyed in the earthquake, her foil would point out that she was born in July but the earthquake was three months earlier in April, and Allen would simply smile and reply “Well, it was an awfully big earthquake.”

Recommended reading:

“Gracie: A Love Story” by George Burns

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Burlesque Queen Blaze Starr

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with nylons rolled!

and brie

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too.

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22 year old porn actress Rebecca Starr:

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and

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Debbie the MILF ready for the promotion panel!

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Debbie sez “You’ll have to answer for that!”
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 Speaking of MAD MEN,

brie as Joan

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Not forgetting Debra Winger as Wonder Girl!

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Sarah Young as a MILF wearing pink tennis shoes:

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and brie

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Lastly, brie wearing a Shirley dress:

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novelist John Rechy

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“As for novelist John Rechy, the excerpt  is from “The Fabulous Wedding of Miss Destiny,”  written about “a flaming drag queen”  while Rechy was renting a room on


Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles.

A highly revised version, titled “Miss Destiny: The Fabulous Wedding,”

appears in Rechy’s “City of Night.”

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“Between about 2nd and 6th streets–a few blocks from Pershing Square and an extension of the same world–Main Street in Los Angeles is a stretch of dingy bars, threefeature moviehouses,burlesque joints, army and navy stores, grimy restaurants, amusement halls–magazine stores with hundreds of photographs for sale of chesty unattainable tempeststorm [I saw her show in Reno, when she must have been about 60 years old. She still looked fabulous!] women in black underwear . . .colored lights strung like a cheap necklace along the street–gray rooming houses
squeezed tightly hotly together, long wobbly dark stairways leading into a maze of. . .lost. . .filthy cockroachspotted rooms for a buck a night where malehustlers and scores go in no questions asked and walk out into the rancid night in opposite directions, the air outside stagnant with the odor of onions and cheap greasy food, and rock-and-roll sexmusic blasting out from the many jukeboxes leering obscenely blinking manycolored along the block matching the frenzied activity in the bars, the hot shoeshine clipstands, the moviehouse toilets all hungry eyes and hot anxious dry tongues. And between these streets the frenzied activity is only moving back and forth going nowhere really, standing against the walls smoking peering anxiously to spot the bulls before they spot you,
darting in and of the two farthest-out bars hipwise on this street: Wally’s Cavern, and Harry’s: long crowded bars with accusing angry mirrors.”

I love this description of downtown Los Angeles circa 1961! Also, there was a theater that showed nothing but newsreels, and a few years earlier there would still be street cars before they were taken out, plus who knows whatever else!?

(Suggested by Larry H’s amazing blog — not sure he really wants to be credited in my blog for his research)

My memory of Pershing square when I was about 10 years old:

People on soap boxes giving speeches.

Tempest Storm in 1980:

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tempest Storm

(born February 29, 1928) is an American stripper, burlesque star, and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr

and Blaze Starr,

she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s. She is regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer, spanning more than 50 years. She still regularly performs as of the 2000s.