Category: Burlesque

They entertained by stripping off their cloths on stage, it started in Burlesque and carried on into Night Clubs.

Burlesque artist

Dona Pavel burlesque star

Dona Pavel burlesque star

Pepper Powell with a whip

Pepper Powell with a whip

Pepper Powell showing off her nipples

Pepper Powell showing off her nipples in a promo pic

Pepper Powell topless exercising

Pepper Powell topless exercising

Stripper Cupcake Cassidy

Stripper Cupcake Cassidy

Stripper Pepper Powell wearing pasties and a G string

Stripper Pepper Powell wearing pasties and a G string

Pepper Powell upright

Pepper Powell upright

Virginia Bell making adjustments

Virginia Bell making adjustments to her stockings

Kalantan on stage

Stripper Kalantan on stage

Candy Barr getting ready for her stage show

Candy Barr getting ready for her stage show

Gypsy Rose Lee in a formal pose

Gypsy Rose Lee in a formal pose

Patti Waggin couching up her lipstick

Stripper Patti Waggin couching up her lipstick waiting back stage

Entertainer waiting

Burlesque Entertainer waiting

Lilly Christine blonde burlesque star of the 1950s

Virginia Bell getting ready to strip

Virginia Bell doing her makeup getting ready to strip

Burlesque dancer make them bounce

Burlesque dancer make them bounce

Pepper Powell lying with a whip

Stripper Pepper Powell is lying on a table playing with a whip

June Havok star of Vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood

June Havok star of Vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood and Gypsy Rose Lee’s sister.

Burlesque Artist

Burlesque Artist

Misty Ayers ready to go on stage

Stripper Misty Ayers pasties on ready to go on stage

Redheaded Burlesque artist

A Burlesque artist making adjustments back stage

Tana Louise

Tana Louise was a burlesque striptease artist, nicknamed the “Cincinnati Sinner”, in the 1950s. However, she was more famous as a fetish model….

“Misty Raine” (1960’s)

“Misty Raine” (1960’s)

Laya Raki in bed

Stripper Laya Raki in bed

April March first lady of Burlesque

April March the title “first lady of Burlesque” – was because of her resemblance to Jacqueline Kennedy