BURLESQUE AS IT WAS 100 YEARS AGO

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