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Stage Name

Real Name

Dixie Evans Mary Lee Evans
"The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque", "The Sensation of the Nation," "Hotter than the Hydrogen Bomb"
        Dixie started dancing in the early 1950's. Later Harold Minsky deemed her the "Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque" and her star started to shine brightly as she created an act around the moniker. As Monroe's fame grew, so did Evans. As you can see in the clip on the right she had an uncanny resemblance to Monroe, in this clip she shows how to get into films by use of her feminine ways and the casting couch... wowza!

    When Monroe died so did Dixies career as a star stripper plus the stage was changing to something else besides
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Burlesque so she retired and later went to help an ailing Jennie Lee at her ranch. When Lee passed, Dixie took the reigns of Jennie's Burlesque Museum and kept it running, eventually expanding it (it's now in las Vegas). Dixie still makes appearances at some Burlesque extravaganzas and holds one or two of her own for the Museum. You can catch Dixie on her Facebook page here.
 

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Measurements

Long Beach, California b.8/26/1926 n/a 40"-26"-34"
              Blonde
 

Dance Types

Posters

Music Titles

Erotic N/A n/a
Strip Tease            
             
                 
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Place Pigalle (Miami, FL) n/a Dixie Evans Burlesque Show (Vegas)
                 
                 
                 
                 
 
Blaze Starr: Film, Videos and Dvd's

Films / Television

Publications

Viewable thru a Youtube Video Pop-up window.
What a Girl Has To Do (to Get into the Movies) Top of page clip 1954: Cavalcade of Burlesque Magazine
Video Clip not available at this time Behind the Burly-Q [DVD] 9/1985 - Tease Magazine
Video Clip not available at this time 1950 - Too Hot To Handle [DVD] 1/16/2003 - The Business Press
Video Clip not available at this time 1969 - Mafia Girls  
Video Clip not available at this time Best of Burlesque [DVD]  
Video Clip not available at this time 1996 - The Unveiling  
Video Clip not available at this time SexTV (TV series documentary)  
Video Clip not available at this time 2010 - Burlesque Undressed (documentary)  
Video Clip not available at this time 2011 - Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque [DVD]  
Video Clip not available at this time 2012 - Satan's Angel: Queen of the Fire Tassels (documentary)  
 

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