Burlesque Babes Zazzle Items

Check out Burlesque Babes Shop gift items on Zazzle. See the "Logo Girls", Sally the Shape, and Betty "Blue Eyes" Howard, as well as FiFi Paree, Venus Love and Lady Zorro. They're on ties, keychains, and fun cut-out stand-up sculptures ~ paper dolls for grown-ups! More goodies to come! What great gift ideas!


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Twyla Templar

The Burlesque Babes Blog presents the lovely TWYLA TEMPLAR.


  • From my archives.
  • I could not find any bio/history or other online references to any vintage Burlesque stripper named Twyla Templar, so if you have any info, memories, or stories to share, please email me. Thanks!




See many more photos and gift items of Twyla Templar today in my online shop-- BURLESQUE BABES, with 100's of Sexy Burlesque Stripper from my huge vintage photograph collection.

TWYLA TEMPLAR

The Burlesque Babes Blog presents the lovely TWYLA TEMPLAR.


  • From my archives.
  • I could not find any bio/history or other online references to any vintage Burlesque stripper named Twyla Templar, so if you have any info, memories, or stories to share, please email me. Thanks!




See many more photos and gift items of Twyla Templar today in my online shop-- BURLESQUE BABES, with 100's of Sexy Burlesque Stripper from my huge vintage photograph collection.

Venus Love

The Burlesque Babes Blog presents the lovely VENUS LOVE.


  • From my archives, with newspaper ad.


  • Her ads called her:
  • The Gorgeous Goddess VENUS LOVE
  • and
  • The Statuesque Body Beautiful!


  • I could not find any bio/history or other online references to any vintage Burlesque stripper named Venus Love, so if you have any info, memories, or stories to share, please email me. Thanks!








See more photos and gift items of VENUS LOVE today in my online shop-- BURLESQUE BABES, with 100's of Sexy Burlesque Stripper from my huge vintage photograph collection.

WHITE FURY AND HER TWIN 44s!

The Burlesque Babes Blog presents the lovely Miss White Fury ~ tassel twirling was her specialty!


  • From my archives, with newspaper ad.
  • Says she was THE CYCLONE OF MOTION.




  • From my archives
  • This one says WHITE FURY AND HER TWIN 44s!


  • More pix from my archives.



  • According to BURLESQUEHISTORY.COM:
  • "Miss White Fury— aka Patti Kelly, but she was usually billed as “Miss White Fury and her Twin 44’s.” Her parents, Rusty and Dusty Farnham worked in Vaudeville and early radio. “Miss White Fury” performed all over the country in theaters and clubs from 1953 to 1983. Coralie Jr. was her agent, and tassel twirling was her specialty."

I could not find any bio/history or other online references to any vintage Burlesque stripper named Miss White Fury, so if you have any info, memories, or stories to share, please email me. Thanks!








See more photos and gift items with Miss White Fury's pix today in my online shop-- BURLESQUE BABES, with 100's of Sexy Burlesque Stripper photos printed from my huge vintage photograph collection.

ZORITA





Today Burlesque Babes presents the lovely ZORITA.



  • "Her routines would contain the use of snakes (Pythons & Boa Constrictors) as a gimmick with her most remembered routine being called "the consummation of the wedding of the snake". "



Get your "ZORITA" prints today in our online shop-- BURLESQUE BABES, where we bring you 100's of sexy Classic Burlesque Stripper photos printed from our huge vintage photograph collection.

Men in Burlesque: COMICS

There was one folder in Rose La Rose's theatre photo archives entitled simply COMICS.

The pix weren't even all named, and there wasn't any extra ads or info. Apparently most of the comics didn't even bother with professional photos with their stage names printed on, at least the ones playing Toledo in the 1960s.

That could be because they just didn't feel good about doing Burlesque... maybe they didn't even have enough money. Here's a Joey Bishop quote I found in this great book:

"Every burlesque comic felt like burlesque was the end of the road for him. If he flopped he had no where else to go... "

Finding info on Burlesque comics is even more difficult than researching the girls. There's a little here and there online, but hopefully more will be added. With google scanning millions of books and magazine's, every day there's more info available on zillions of subjects.

I hope they'll scan all the wonderful old CAVALCADE OF BURLESQUE magazines. They are 95% pix of girls, but the rest features comics -- the Top Bananas of the day. You can even read the scripts of some funny comic bits -- "Gags" as they called them.

You should be able to click the pix to see larger views.




Above is the cover of the 1st issue, Fall 1951. So that means these guys and gals were working in the 1940s. Below are a few comics. My pix are difficult to read. Someday I'll do quality scans of all my Cavalcades, but for now:


  • Billy 'Scratch' Wallace / Mike Sachs

  • No names...

  • Click the pic above -- you might be able to make out the names.

    Starting below are the pix that were in my archives, so most of these guys were performing circa 1950s & 1960s :

  • Mickey Jay with Rosemary

  • Billy Reed with Jean Carroll

  • Oaky Miller

  • Ken Duric

  • Big Ferguson (spelling?)

  • Willie Dew

  • Silky Silvers

  • Bert Gehan

  • Erby Wilson

  • Pat Burns

  • Dick Martin

  • Lee Clifford

  • Jimmy Calvo

  • Phil Lane


  • Billy "Cheese'n'Crackers" Hagan (this pic is from the 1951 Cavalcade of Burlesque mag.)

  • Jack Hayes (another pic from the 1951 Cavalcade of Burlesque mag.)

The guys below were in my comics folder, but without names:








I know there were many more comics, and I have just shown the pix that I had from Rose's stash. I have other issues of Cavalcade of Burlesque, and will dig them out someday to share.

The VEGAS RETRO site has a few comics pix in their Top Bananas"Best of Burlesque Comics" section.

If anyone has info on a great Burlesque Comics history resource, please let me know-- thanks!

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