- Dita von Teese
Dita Von Teese is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress. She is one of the instigators of the burlesque revival, and has been a considerable factor in bringing burlesque to mainstream attention. She initially rose to fame during her relationship with Marilyn Manson, whom she married and subsequently divorced. - Tempest Storm
Tempest Storm (born February 29, 1928) was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Georgia. She is a retired American burlesque star and motion picture actress. - Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (February 9, 1911 or 1914 - April 26, 1970) was an American actress and burlesque entertainer, whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film "Gypsy". - Robin Antin
Robin Antin (born July 6, 1961) is an American choreographer, music video director, actress, and entrepreneur. In 1995 in Los Angeles she founded the modern burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls which, by 2005, had been diversified into various media including: an R&B recording group with international hits; a Las Vegas nightclub venue and floorshow; various merchandise; and a reality TV series. As a choreographer, Antin worked with entertainers such as Paris Hilton, … - Blaze Starr
Blaze Starr (born 1932) was an American stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also notorious for her affair with Louisiana governor Earl Long. - Irving Klaw
Irving Klaw (November 9, 1910 - September 3, 1966) was an American photographer and filmmaker. Klaw is best-known for operating a mail-order business selling photographs and film of attractive women (sometimes in bondage) from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was one of the first fetish photographers, and his model Bettie Page became the first famous bondage model. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. His family business, Movie Star News, started as a magazine store. - Big John Bates
Big John Bates is a "first-rate guitarist who melds garage, punk, rockabilly, psychedelia & goth ..."(Weekly Volcano / Tacoma) and his band kicks out a sound that's "dirty, filthy ... just like Lux and Ivy used to make." Big John Bates is also the first Rock and roll band to add a Burlesque group - the Voodoo Dollz - to create "The Lowbrow Road Show". They were the first revivalists to take burlesque on the road, playing clubs throughout Europe and North America. - Ashley Roberts
Ashley Roberts (born 14 September 1981) is an American dancer. She is in the modern burlesque singing group the Pussycat Dolls and is also a glamour model. - Kimberly Wyatt
Kimberly Wyatt (born February 4 1982) is an American dancer and member of the modern burlesque pop/R&B group the Pussycat Dolls. Wyatt was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, a small town near Kansas City. Her father is a trucker and her mother travels with him. Before dancing, she attempted Tee-Ball, basketball and Brownies, which ended unsuccessfully. Wyatt began dancing at the age of seven. - Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim was a Tony Award-winning American comic actor. Born in New York City, he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz", but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. - Catherine D'Lish
Catherine D’lish is an American performance artist specializing in classical strip tease and burlesque. Elaborate costumes and decorative props are part of her show. She has been the headlining performer at multiple events in the genre including the 50th anniversary celebration of Playboy. Las Vegas shows were held at the Riviera, Stardust, Tropicana, Bally's, and Caesars Palace. D'lish's titles include: Miss Nude USA, Miss Exotic America, Miss Erotic World, … - Candy Barr
Candy Barr (July 6, 1935 - December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque exotic dancer, actress in one pornographic movie, and model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century. During the 1950s, she received nationwide attention for her stripping career in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; her troubles with the law; shooting her estranged second husband; and being arrested and sentenced to a prison term for drug possession, … - Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotograph constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005. - Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December, 1612 - 18 June, 1680) was born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February, 1613. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled "Hudibras". He was the son of a farmer and was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by Thomas Fuller a contemporary writer in his "Worthies of England". - Virginia Bell
Virginia "Ding Dong" Bell (born 1932 in Montrose, California) was a topless model and actress. She started her career in the 1950s as a burlesque dancer. Standing only 5'2" (1.57 m), her 48-inch bust was her most prominent asset. According to "Celebrity Sleuth" magazine, Virginia's measurements were 48-24-36. She is frequently said to have had the best body ever of any burlesque dancer or pin up model. Virginia had one starring role in a feature film, "Bell, … - Ann Corio
Ann Corio (November 29, 1914 - March 1, 1999) was a prominent American burlesque ecdysiast and actress. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she was one of twelve children of parents of Italian immigrants. While still in her teens, Corio's good looks and shapely physique landed her showgirl roles that led to her becoming a hugely popular striptease artist. Working in New York City, she was a star performer at clubs such as the famous "Minsky's Burlesque". - Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor born May 6, 1952 in Paris. After his studies at "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po") he started his acting career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid and participated in a number of burlesque films with the troupe, which had hits with films like "Les Bronzés font du ski" and "Le Père Noël est une ordure". His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, … - Pinky Lee
Pinky Lee (May 2, 1907 - April 3, 1993, born Pincus Leff), was a male American Burlesque comic and host of a children's television show, "The Pinky Lee Show" in the early 1950s. Lee worked as comic of the "baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque style, into the 1940s, appearing on "Drene Time" and other radio programs. - Sasha
Sasha is best known as a Canadian advice columnist, who writes the weekly sex advice column "Love Bites". Her column originated in the "Montreal Mirror". After she relocated to Toronto, "Love Bites" made its debut in "eye weekly" shortly after Dan Savage's sex column moved to competitor "Now" in 1999. As Sasha Van Bon Bon she is a co-creator and member of The Scandelles, … - Curtis Eller
Curtis Eller is an American musician. Eller and his band, The American Circus, perform and record in New York City. Eller is a noted banjo player. His music is diverse; he sings about pigeon racing, performing elephants and Jesus. He started his show-business career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat in the Hiller Olde Tyme Circus in Detroit, but has since turned to the banjo. According to the bio posted on his website, Eller's band has appeared at funerals, … - Robert Alda
Robert Alda born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an American actor and father of actor Alan Alda. Alda, an Italian American was born in New York City, the son of Anthony Alda (who Robert Alda's son was named after) and Frances T. D'Abruzzo. He started out as a singer and dancer in vaudeville after winning a talent contest. Following brief work in vaudeville he moved onto burlesque. - Herb Jeffries
Herbert "Herb" Jeffries (b. September 24, 1911 in Detroit, Michigan) is a multi-racial American jazz singer and actor. A jazz musician of Ethiopian-French Canadian and Italian-Irish descent, Jeffries is noted for his singing cowboy roles in several all-black Western films in which he sang his own western compositions. Jeffries got the financing for the first black western film and hired Spencer Williams to appear with him. - Lew Fields
Lew Fields (1867 - 1941) was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star and theatre manager and producer. Fields was half of the great comic duo "Weber and Fields", the other half being Joe Weber. Fields and Weber started performing in museums, circuses, and variety houses in New York City. The young men had a "Dutch act" in which both portrayed German immigrants. They toured successfully in vaudeville for many years. - John Brougham
John Brougham (May 9, 1814 - June 7, 1880), was an Irish-American actor and dramatist. Born at Dublin, he was educated with the intention of his becoming a surgeon. Owing to family misfortunes he was left to his own devices, and made his first appearance on the London stage in 1830, at the Tottenham Street theatre in "Tom and Jerry", in which he played six characters. In 1831 he was a member of Madame Vestris's company, and wrote his, first play, a burlesque. - Pigmeat Markham
Pigmeat Markham (April 18, 1904 - December 13, 1981) was an African American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor. "Pigmeat" was born as Dewey Markham in Durham, North Carolina. He was sometimes creditied in movies as David "Pigmeat" Markham. Markham began his career in traveling music and burlesque shows. For a time he was a member of Bessie Smith's traveling review in the 1920s. - Ambrose Philips
Ambrose Philips, (1674 - June 18, 1749), was an English poet. He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals were probably written in this period. - Assoucy
Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy or "D'Assouci" (October 16, 1604, Paris - October 29, 1677, Paris) was a French musician and burlesque poet. His work and lifestyle were ridiculed by Boileau and defended by Cyrano de Bergerac. - Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s-16 August1641) was a prominent English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. Few details of Thomas Heywood's life have been documented with certainty. Most references indicate that the county of his birth was most likely Lincolnshire, while the year has been variously given as 1570, 1573, 1574 and 1575. - Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich (b. July 15, 1961) is a Canadian-born actress of Serbian heritage. - Meyer Lutz
Wilhem Meyer Lutz born 1829 in Bavaria, Germany and died 1903. Resident in England from the age of 19. Lutz was a composer who is best known for light music, musical comedy and burlesques of well known works. Originally an organist, Lutz conducted "Thespis", the first Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, in 1871 at the Gaiety Theatre where he was resident musical director and conductor. Works in this period include "The Forty Thieves", … - John Weaver
John Weaver (July 21, 1673 - September 24, 1760) was a dancer and choreographer and is commonly known as the father of English pantomime. Weaver was born in Shrewsbury. His father, a dance teacher, suggested he go to London and become a ballet master. Weaver soon became a specialist in comic roles and created the first pantomime ballet, the burlesque "Tavern Bilkers" (1702). - Harry von Tilzer
Harry Von Tilzer (July 8, 1872 - January 10, 1946) was a very popular United States songwriter. Von Tilzer was born in Detroit, Michigan under the name Harry Gummbinsky (shortened to Harry Gumm before taking the name under which he became famous. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name, and soon proved successful playing piano and calliope and writing new tunes and incidental music for the shows. - Lynn Breedlove
Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland, California) is an American musician, writer, and performer. Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco queercore punk band Tribe 8. One of the band's first singles was released by the queercore record label Outpunk and later releases were on the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. - Staci Flood
Staci Beth Codorniz Lavine Costa de Souza Flood (born December 10, 1973) is an American singer, dancer and model best known for her lead dance roles in the music videos "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias (1999) and "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake (2003). She was once a member of the burlesque troupe The Pussycat Dolls and appeared with them in the film "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" (2003) and the music video for "Trouble" by P!nk (2003). - Rags Ragland
"Rags Ragland" (b.John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland, August 23 1905, Louisville, Kentucky; d. August 20 1946, Los Angeles, California) was an American comedian and character actor. Ragland first made his reputation in burlesque, where he was one of the house comics for the famed Minsky burlesque shows. One of the Minsky striptease stars, Georgia Sothern, remembered him fondly in her 1971 memoir, … - Billy Jenkins
Billy Jenkins (born 5 July 1956) is a blues guitarist, composer, and bandleader. Initially Jenkins sprang to fame as a member of Burlesque, then as part of Trimmer & Jenkins. A short period followed as a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he was the Rigsby of Greenwich, running Wood Wharf Studios by day. He mixed this with work on his own VOTP Records and leading the Voice Of God Collective, … - Hipponax
Hipponax of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet. Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras, he took refuge in Clazomenae, where he spent the rest of his life in poverty. His deformed figure and malicious disposition exposed him to the caricature of the Chian sculptors Bupalus and Athenis, upon whom he revenged himself by issuing against them a series of satires. - Tracy Phillips
Tracy Phillips is an actress, dancer (particularly burlesque), and choreographer living in Southern California. She is the daughter of Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips. Her grandfather is legendary Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips. Tracy has appeared in numerous music videos. Her role as the deceased Helena in My Chemical Romance's "Helena" music video is arguably her most well-known role. - Phyllis Smith
Phyllis Smith is an American film and television actress who plays Phyllis Vance on "The Office". She was born in Lemay, MO, which is just outside of St. Louis. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a dancer, a cheerleader for the old St. Louis football Cardinals, and a burlesque performer ("No stripping, but I did wear feathers," says Smith). She had to quit dancing after suffering a knee injury. Smith worked in Hollywood in casting, and occasionally as an actress, … - Curly Joe Derita
"Curly-Joe" DeRita (July 12, 1909 - July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American comedian who is best known as the "sixth" and last of the Three Stooges. DeRita was born into a show business family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wardell's father was a stage technician, and his mother, a professional stage dancer; the three often acted on stage together from his early childhood.
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