Tempest Storm was a 50s Striptease
Artist who worked for a time at Denver's Tropics
nightclub, as well as many other venues around the world. In her 80s now,
she is still stripping after all these years, in Las Vegas.
"Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks February 29, 1928)
is an American stripper, burlesque star and motion picture actress. Along
with Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr, Storm was among the most famous
burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s.[citation needed] She is
regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer
spanning over fifty years. She still regularly performs"
read more from Wiki...
The late Bettie Page and Tempest Storm in The Teaserama Video, produced and directed by Bettie Page's well known manager/photographer Irving Klaw. This is a very sensual video of Bettie Page and Tempest Storm.
[video is from: evilstar85]
Press Release: Bettie Page
Obituary
Funeral Service will be Tuesday Dec 16
at Westwood Memorial Cemetery . It will be a PRIVATE CEREMONY.
If you are a friend of the family and wish to attend, please call or
e-mail:
Ellie@CMGWorldwide.com or 310.651.2000
"Los Angeles,
December 11, 2008 – Bettie Page, sweet-smiling legendary 1950s pin-up
queen with the killer curves and coal-black bangs, died today of pneumonia
at a Los Angeles area hospital. She was 85 years old. She suffered a
heart attack one week ago and never regained consciousness. Her
popularity as an underground, guilty pleasures phenomenon has continued to
soar despite the fact that the reclusive Page disappeared almost a half
century ago, leading many to believe that one of the most photographed
individuals of the 20th century was already dead."
"As the model who
many have argued raised cheesecake to an art, Page combined exuberant,
wide-eyed innocence with confident, sometimes aggressive sexuality. VANITY
FAIR praised the playfully seductive Page as “our Uber-pin-up.” The NEW
YORK TIMES has declared that today “her star shines more brightly than it
did in her brief heyday from 1950 to 1957.” PLAYBOY immortalized Page as
one of its inaugural centerfolds and recently named her “the model of the
century, yet she remains one of its best kept secrets.” In a recent
TVGuide.com poll, Bettie Page was voted the “ultimate sex goddess,”
outscoring others such as Marilyn Monroe."
"Born on April 22,
1923 in Nashville, Tennessee, Bettie (spelled “Betty” on her birth
certificate) Mae Page was the second child of six born to Walter Roy Page
and Edna Mae Pirtle. The family was poor, moved often, and as a child,
Page frequently found it necessary to take charge of her siblings. On
several occasions they were dispatched to an orphanage. Life was hard.
They were raised in the Church. Page owed her extraordinary looks and high
intelligence to her parents, but it was a mixed blessing. Her mother did
not want her. Her father molested her."
"Page and her two sisters grew
up movie fans who enjoyed acting out memorable scenes from whatever
“picture show” they had just been to see. “I’ve been a movie hound my
whole life,” Page said. “That’s how I started learning to pose, when my
little sisters asked me to mimic photos of movie stars we’d seen in the
magazines and newspapers.” They would experiment with different hairdos
and makeup styles. At an early age Page learned to sew at the local
community center; it was a skill with a practical application years later
when she designed and made her own costumes, lingerie and bikinis to wear
while modeling. She was the salutatorian of her high school graduating
class. She was also program director of the dramatics club,
secretary-treasurer of the student council, co-editor of the school’s
newspaper and yearbook, and voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by her
classmates."..."Funeral services will be Tuesday with a private service
and burial at Westwood Cemetery a few feet away from her blonde sex icon
counterpart, Marilyn Monroe."
read more from the Official Bettie Page Website...
"Bettie Page dies at 85; pinup queen played a key
role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and later became a cult figure"
By Louis Sahagun, LA Times - December 12, 2008
"Bettie Page, the
brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs
whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has
died. She was 85."
"Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and
several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at
Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since
suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler."
read more from the LA Times...
THIS IS THE BETTIE
PAGE PAGE AS IT WAS...First published a decade
ago...
This is the Bettie Page page...I've
had so many requests for more Bettie info. that I decided to give her her own page...
Pop culture ICON Bettie Page
was a leading cover girl for Men's mags...
