Blaze Starr

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Blaze Starr actually, Fannie Belle Fleming , (* 10. April 1932 in Wilsondale , West Virginia ; † 15. June 2015 ibid) was an American burlesque - dancer , stripper and photo and nude model .

Life

Raised in Wilsondale, she moved to Washington, DC when she was 15 , where she worked as a saleswoman in a donut shop or as a cloakroom girl. There she was discovered by the manager Red Snyder, who gave her her stage name Blaze Starr and helped her to her first appearances as a burlesque dancer. However, Starr soon separated from her manager and moved to Baltimore to accept an engagement at the Two O'Clock Club . Starr became known nationally when Esquire mentioned her in an article in 1954. From then on she performed successfully as a dancer in numerous nightclubs in the United States, worked as a sought-after pin-up girl and appeared on the covers of several men's magazines . She was photographed, among others, by fetish photographer Irving Klaw and Diane Arbus .

Towards the end of the 1950s, she began an affair with the married Earl Long , then Governor of Louisiana, whom she had met during an engagement in New Orleans. Starr himself was married to the nightclub owner Carroll Glorioso at the time. The scandalous relationship between the two preoccupied the press and shocked US citizens. The relationship between the politician and the stripper was filmed in 1989 under the title Blaze - A Dangerous Love , with Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich in the lead roles. Starr has a guest appearance in this film.

Starr bought the Two O'Clock Club in later years and retired from the stage in 1983. Some pieces of her stage wear are on display at the Museum of Sex in New York and the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas .

Filmography

  • 1956: Buxom Beautease
  • 1962: Blaze Starr Goes Nudist
  • 1989: Blaze (Blaze)
  • 1990: On the Block
  • 2010: Behind the Burly Q (documentary)

literature

  • Blaze Starr and Huey Perry: My Life as Told to Huey Perry , Praeger Publishers, 1974, ISBN 978-0-275-19920-3
  • Kevin Slaughter: Dames of Burlesque , Underworld Amusements, 2011, eBook

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ashley Southall: Blaze Starr, Burlesque Stripper Linked to a Governor, Dies at 83. Obituary in the New York Times, June 16, 2015 (accessed June 16, 2015).
  2. ↑ Blaze Starr on www.spiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Rigid, Blaze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming, Fannie Belle (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American burlesque dancer, stripper, and nude model
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilsondale , West Virginia , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2015
Place of death Wilsondale , West Virginia , United States