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Stage Name |
Real Name |
| Nejla
Ates (Nedjai or Nejla) |
Necla
Batir |
| "The
Exquisite Turkish Delight" |
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| "Little
Miss Firecracker" |
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| Nejla
Atesh |
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Nejla Ates was a very good
Middle Eastern dancer (Belly dancer aka al raks sharqi) who
did some very erotic dancing during her career. Altho not born in
Turkey, it appears as if she may have grown up there with her parents,
at least for a time. Danced in a few movies as well with some big
name cheesecake dancers such as Lili St Cyr and is said to have
been the first "Belly Dancer" to gain fame thru dancing
in the movies. Did some Burlesque and Showgirl work as a dancer
during her career as well.
Danced at the Casino
de Paris and the Ringside Club around 1952 and by 1953 is
at LoU Walters Latin
Quarter in NYC. and eventually becomes the most sensational
show stopper Walter's ever had. She then travels to Las Vegas
and is heralded the hottest of
the Las Vegas acts along with Billy Daniels.
It is said to have had more lovers than Valentino himself
and seems to have been engaged to someone or other every six months
or so from doormen to Prince's and even King's (even sued by one,)
and in 1952 was briefly engaged to millionaire Shep Abdullah King
but she says they were mostly publicity stunts. In 1955, Burlesque
star Rose La Rose becomes enraged at Ates for supposedly stealing
her wiggles in "Fanny" and says they are the same ones
she did in New York a couple of seasons ago.
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Seems Ates had some problems with overdosing, relationships,
Breking up others relationships and ... spending all her money
on younger men while being wooed by older ones who wanted to marry
her even in her early twenties. Ates retired in the 1970's and
moved to Istanbul, Turkey where she died at age 73 at an Istanbul,
Turkey, hospital. There is a statue of her in Central Park.
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