Tempest Storm, the often-flame-haired striptease artist, burlesque performer, star of early Russ Meyer films and later a rock generation icon, died Tuesday in her Las Vegas apartment. She was 93.
Her death was reported to the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Storm’s longtime friend and business partner Harvey Robbins. Storm had been suffering from dementia and recently underwent hip surgery.
Robbins was at Storm’s home when she died, as were a nurse and Las Vegas burlesque performers Kalani Kokonuts and Miss Redd.
According to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Ga, and at the age of 20, already twice-married, moved to Hollywood. At first working as a cocktail waitress, she soon found work as a striptease performer with the Follies Theater. She adopted the stage name Tempest Storm in 1950 and, shortly after her arrival in L.A. became friends with neighbor Marilyn Monroe.
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Her death was reported to the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Storm’s longtime friend and business partner Harvey Robbins. Storm had been suffering from dementia and recently underwent hip surgery.
Robbins was at Storm’s home when she died, as were a nurse and Las Vegas burlesque performers Kalani Kokonuts and Miss Redd.
According to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, Storm was born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Ga, and at the age of 20, already twice-married, moved to Hollywood. At first working as a cocktail waitress, she soon found work as a striptease performer with the Follies Theater. She adopted the stage name Tempest Storm in 1950 and, shortly after her arrival in L.A. became friends with neighbor Marilyn Monroe.
The list of famous acquaintances,...
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- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A look at the art photography of Bunny Yeager, starring Bettie Page? We can think of less pleasant ways to pass the time. Savant raises his standards to check out what’s happening in the disc section behind the gray curtain, and finds that the fringe product suppliers are up to their old tricks.
100 Girls by Bunny Yeager
Blu-ray
Cult Epics
1999 / Color + B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 46 min. / Available at Cult Epics / Street Date March 14, 2017 / 29.95
Starring: Bunny Yeager
Produced by Nico B
It doesn’t take long to sort out 100 Girls by Bunny Yeager, a new Blu-ray release from Cult Epics. An instinctive glamour photographer, Ms. Yeager is best known for her pretty images of fresh-faced nude models, taken mostly on the beach near her Florida home. Sort of the Erin Brockovich of nude photography, Bunny was a practical gal who kept it clean and honest and did not...
100 Girls by Bunny Yeager
Blu-ray
Cult Epics
1999 / Color + B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 46 min. / Available at Cult Epics / Street Date March 14, 2017 / 29.95
Starring: Bunny Yeager
Produced by Nico B
It doesn’t take long to sort out 100 Girls by Bunny Yeager, a new Blu-ray release from Cult Epics. An instinctive glamour photographer, Ms. Yeager is best known for her pretty images of fresh-faced nude models, taken mostly on the beach near her Florida home. Sort of the Erin Brockovich of nude photography, Bunny was a practical gal who kept it clean and honest and did not...
- 5/8/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 22, 2014
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2012 documentary Bettie Page Reveals All takes an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, the legendary pin-up queen Bettie Page.
The first and only authorized film biography of the “Queen of Curves,” the movie is filled with iconic and rare photographs and film loops, including unseen images from private collections, the real Bettie Page emerges from 40 years of enigmatic seclusion to tell her story in her own words via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With her lively Tennessee twang , Bettie recounts her life — from humble beginnings as one of six children in an impoverished Southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous 50s pin-up model, to a short-lived first marriage and series of torrid affairs, up to her retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career.
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Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $34.95
Studio: Music Box
The 2012 documentary Bettie Page Reveals All takes an intimate look at one of the world’s most recognized sex symbols, the legendary pin-up queen Bettie Page.
The first and only authorized film biography of the “Queen of Curves,” the movie is filled with iconic and rare photographs and film loops, including unseen images from private collections, the real Bettie Page emerges from 40 years of enigmatic seclusion to tell her story in her own words via audio interviews taped a decade prior to her death in 2008. With her lively Tennessee twang , Bettie recounts her life — from humble beginnings as one of six children in an impoverished Southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous 50s pin-up model, to a short-lived first marriage and series of torrid affairs, up to her retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career.
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- 2/13/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
New York -- Movie Star News amassed a staggering amount of film stills, posters and negatives over the past 73 years – nearly 3 million, including 1,500 prints of Bettie Page, known as the queen of pin-ups. But last week, the once-lively store in lower Manhattan was lifeless. The classic movie posters that once covered its narrow 2,000-square-foot space were rolled up or covered in cellophane, its bins and racks empty. Everything was packed up in cardboard boxes that lined the floor.
The legendary Manhattan store credited with creating pin-up art had sold its entire inventory to a Las Vegas collectibles company.
The collection, regarded as one of the largest of its kind, is headed for the auction block. It will be sold in a series of sales slated to begin next year. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1939 to 1979; 11,500 movies and 5,000 actors are represented.
"This is the most important photo archive of Hollywood in existence.
The legendary Manhattan store credited with creating pin-up art had sold its entire inventory to a Las Vegas collectibles company.
The collection, regarded as one of the largest of its kind, is headed for the auction block. It will be sold in a series of sales slated to begin next year. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1939 to 1979; 11,500 movies and 5,000 actors are represented.
"This is the most important photo archive of Hollywood in existence.
- 7/30/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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- by Dustin Rowles
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- IONCINEMA.com
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