Stage Name |
Real Name |
| Tempest
Storm |
Annie
Blanche Banks |
| The Fabulous
4D Girl |
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Miss Storm was known
as the "The Fabulous 4D Girl." Tempest Storm, who was
one of the original classic Burlesque super stars, a red headed
queen of the burlesque stage. A couple years after leaving her
sharecropper home, she ended up in Los Angeles as a chorus line
dancer.
In 1952, only after a few
shows was she offered the opportunity to perform as a stripper
in the 'French Peepshow' at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, California.
Later, performed with Betty Page in the 1955 film 'Teaserama'
and legally changed her name in 1957.
Elvis Presly,
Sammy Davis Jr. and Kennedy were all said to have been with her.
She continued her popularity of taking off her clothes for audeinces
well into her sixties and finally retired.
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