“If a girl wants to get started in the business,” Pappy went on, “she may call me or she may tell one of the club owners and he’ll tell her to contact me. I’ve got kind of an amateur show I do over at the Athens Strip on Sunday afternoon. I tell the girl to show up there and if she does all right, she can start dancing.”
What’s it take to make a good stripper?
“Oh, it’s like anything else. It takes a gimmick. Some girls are beautiful and that’s their gimmick. But you’ve got to have, you know, something to set you apart. I’ll tell you one thing: I don’t think a girl should take everything off. After you’ve seen it all, what mystery’s left? Why come back?”
Tempest Storm, legendary burlesque star, dies in Vegas home at 93
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Tempest Storm, Who Disrobed to Enduring Acclaim, Dies at 93
Margalit Fox, New York Times
April 21, 2021
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Tempest Storm tries on her feather boa in her apartment in Las Vegas, Friday, June 6, 2008. Jae C. Hong/AP
Tempest Storm, one of the most celebrated strippers of midcentury burlesque, who continued plying her craft until she was in her 80s not because she had to, but because she could died on Tuesday at her home in Las Vegas. She was 93.
Harvey Robbins, her longtime manager, confirmed the death.
Routinely named in the same ardent breath as the great 20th-century ecdysiasts Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr and Gypsy Rose Lee, Storm was every inch as ecdysiastical as they, and for far longer. Almost certainly the last of her ilk, she was, at her height in the 1950s and early ’60s, famous the world over, as celebrated for her flame-red tresses as for her vaunted 40-inch bust.
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Tempest Storm, the fiery redhead known as a burlesque icon who starred in early Russ Meyer films, has died. She was 93.
Storm died in her Las Vegas apartment Tuesday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, and had been battling dementia in recent months. She also was struggling after undergoing hip surgery on April 8 and was under round-the-clock care until her death. Tempest was easily one of the best-known and highest-regarded burlesque [performers] of all time, and was an active part of the burlesque community right to the end, Burlesque Hall of Fame executive director Dustin Wax told the Review-Journal. She will be missed terribly in the burlesque community and well beyond it.
Tempest Storm, legendary burlesque star, dies at Vegas home
JOHN KATSILOMETES, Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 22, 2021
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1of6FILE - In this June 7, 2008 file photo Tempest Storm, an 80-year-old burlesque dancer, performs during the Burlesque Hall of Fame s annual All-Star Burlesque Weekend held at the Palms hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Tempest Storm, the legendary burlesque star who blazed a trail for strip-tease artists for more than a half-century, died Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at her Las Vegas apartment, her longtime friend, confidant and business partner Harvey Robbins, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She was 93.Jae C. Hong/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6FILE - In this June 6, 2008 file photo Tempest Storm, an 80-year-old burlesque dancer, tries on her feather boa in her apartment in Las Vegas. Tempest Storm, the legendary burlesque star who blazed a trail for strip-tease artists for more than a half-century, died Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at
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