Tempest Storm

Tempest Storm ( * February 29, 1928 in Eastman, Georgia as Annie Blanche Banks) is a former American burlesque dancer and film actress.

Life

As a victim of child abuse, she left her parents' house very early, at the age of 20 years she has been married twice and divorced again. She moved to Hollywood to work as a dancer, but thanks to her figure and her charisma, she was a popular Burlesquetänzerin.

After some years on the stage of a burlesque theater in Oakland and other clubs in the United States, for example, in Las Vegas, it was displayed in several magazines and appeared in burlesque films, including Russ Meyer's French Peep Show (1950 ) Paris After Midnight (1951 ), Striptease Girl ( 1952) and together with Bettie Page in Irving Klaws Teaserama ( 1955). During the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in several feature films, they both presented itself itself as well as in character roles. She was next to Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr one of the most Burlesquekünstlerinnen this time and had during her career affairs with John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr. and Vic Damone.

Together with the author Bill Boyd gave Storm 1987, a biography titled Tempest Storm: The Lady Is A Vamp out. She was admitted to Dixie Evans Hall of Fame Exotic World Burlesque Museum in Helendale, her G- string is part of the exhibition. Your career is regarded as one of the longest in the genre, officially she sat down at the age of 67 years to rest, but occurs occasionally still, such as she stripped in 1999 in San Francisco to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the O'Farrell Theatre.

Storm was four times married, divorced from her past and also her marriage to singer and actor Herb Jeffries comes a daughter, Storm now lives in Las Vegas.