Sally Rand
Nacimiento : 1904-04-03, Hickory County, Missouri, USA
Muerte : 1979-08-31
Historia
Sally Rand (3 de abril de 1904 – 3 de agosto de 1979) fue una actriz cinematográfica, vedette y bailarina erótica estadounidense.
Su verdadero nombre era Harriet Helen Gould Beck, y nació en Hickory County, Missouri. También actuó bajo el apodo de Billy Beck, y su nombre artístico se lo dio Cecil B. DeMille. En los años veinte actuó en el teatro y en el cine mudo. Fue seleccionada como una de las WAMPAS Baby Stars de 1927. Tras la aparición del cine sonoro, se convirtió en bailarina, especializada en el baile con abanicos, el cual popularizó actuando en el Paramount Club. Su actuación más famosa tuvo lugar en la Exposición Universal de Chicago (1933). Debido a las posturas consideradas indecentes que adoptaba con el baile fue arrestada en algunas ocasiones, aunque su desnudez era realmente una ilusión. También concibió la danza de la burbuja, en parte para poder trabajar en exteriores en días de viento. Interpretó la danza del abanico en la película Bolero, estrenada en 1934.
En 1936 adquirió el club Great American Music Hall, de San Francisco (California). Estuvo casada con Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Thurkel "Turk" Greenough, Harry Finkelstein, y con Fred Lalla. Sally Rand falleció en 1979 en Glendora, California, a los 75 años de edad, a causa de una insuficiencia cardíaca.
Self (archive footage)
Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.
Herself (archive footage)
Performances of the greatest exotic dancers are collected here for the first time, from Little Egypt in 1893 to the great striptease headliners of the golden age of Burlesque.
Choreographer
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Kathy O'Connor
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Annette
Un bailarín, Raoul, llega a primera figura de un night club con la determinación de llegar a ser el número uno y obtener el amor de la única mujer que le importa. Cuando parece que lo va a lograr, estalla la Primera Guerra Mundial y es enviado al frente...
A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....
Crocodiles' Victim (uncredited)
Imperio Romano, siglo I d. C. Después del gran incendio de Roma, el emperador Nerón, decide culpar a los cristianos y publica un edicto por el cual todos ellos deberán ser arrestados y enviados a la arena del circo. Entre los detenidos se encuentran dos viejos cristianos y la hermosa hija de uno de ellos, de la que se enamora Marcus: el más alto funcionario de Roma.
Girl in Bombay (uncredited)
Dos marineros que se hacen amigos viajan por todo el mundo en busca de aventuras y mujeres.
Dorothy Shelton
Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could desire. Then the land-grabbers, clay-speculators, cosmetic companies and a show girl or two show up to get a piece of the action.
Fräulein Hertz
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor, though Dorcas Chatham, daughter of the general store owner, begs him to forego this indulgence. Returning from town, he finds a dog by the roadside, apparently injured by a car, and takes it home. Later, on a drunken spree, Peter is attacked by robbers, but the dog comes to his rescue and frightens the assailants away. Stirred by the unselfish devotion of his dog, Peter gradually regains his self-respect, and Dorcas falls in love with him and accepts his proposal, though she fears the dog. When Peter enters the dog in a show, another exhibitor proves to be its owner, and Peter is first parted from, then reunited with, "his" dog. Dorcas overcomes her fear and is united with Peter.
Wing Toy (uncredited)
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
Mary Magdalene's Slave (uncredited)
Una de las primeras películas del cine mudo que abordaron la narración bíblica de Jesucristo. En esta ocasión, contada desde el punto de vista de María Magdalena (Dorothy Cumming), antigua cortesana al servicio de los romanos que es redimida por el amor de Jesús (H.B. Warner). En 1961, Nicholas Ray hizo un remake con Jeffrey Hunter en el papel principal.
Teddy Desmond
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
Gypsy Dancer
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....
Dancer
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
Sally Vernon
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
Mannequin / Dancer (uncredited)
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
