BURLESQUE AS IT WAS 100 YEARS AGO
A ton of historic film footage and a 77-year-old ex-burlesque star.
Burlesque as it was 100 years ago! Actual historic film footage plus an interview with a 77-year-old burlesque star. Here is film from Thomas Edison and others who captured Burlesque a hundred years ago.
A LITTLE HISTORY
American burlesque shows were originally an
offshoot of Victorian burlesque. The English genre had been successfully
staged in New York from the 1840s
, and it was popularized by a visiting British burlesque troupe, Lydia Thompson and the "British Blondes", beginning in 1868.
Burlesque originated in 17th
century
Italian theater as a type of comic interlude. The word derives from the
Italian "burla," a joke, ridicule or mockery. Burlesque can be applied
to literature, music and theater.
Burlesque Dancer
- a scantily-clad provocatively dancing
female accompanied by slapstick comedy, humor, short, entertaining and
humorous skits and striptease, of course. Stripper- Someone who
undresses to provide erotic pleasure to others by strip-teasing and dancing
very provocatively to music.
Famous Burlesque Dancers
- Josephine Baker.
- Theda Bara.
- Candy Barr.
- Ann Corio.
- Yvonne De Carlo.
- Diana Dors.
- Gypsy Rose Lee.
- Bettie Page.
BELOW ARE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY BURLESQUE PROMOTIONALS
