Category: Tempest Storm
From restaurant waitress in low-cut uniforms in the late 1940s (in Lafayette and Orinda, CA) she became an exotic dancer and stripper at the El Rey Burlesk at San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA. Peter A. DeCenzie presented her as Tempest Storm, from Paris. Still photographer Russ Meyer met her there, and contributed to her popularity with a number of photo-packs and 16mm Kodachrome films, shown as “French Peep Show”.
Tempest Storm was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks; 1928 – 2021), also dubbed The Queen Of Exotic Dancers, was…
