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    American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows. Burlesque became popular in...
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    A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous...
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  • Burlesque is a 2010 American backstage musical film written and directed by Steven Antin. It stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet...
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    Neo-burlesque, or new burlesque, is the revival and updating of the traditional American burlesque performance. Though based on the traditional burlesque...
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  • to: American burlesque, a form of variety show popular from the 1860s Neo-Burlesque, a revival and updating of the traditional American burlesque performance...
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  • Minsky's Burlesque refers to the brand of American burlesque presented by four sons of Louis and Ethel Minsky: Abraham 'Abe' Bennett Minsky (1880–1949)...
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    Dirty Martini (born Linda Marraccini) is an American burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher. She is best known for her over-the-top performance...
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  • author of the non-fiction book Pretty Things: the Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens, (HarperCollins 2006) and the novel Sporting Guide (Regan Arts/Phaidon...
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  • Zorita (born Kathryn Boyd, 30 August 1915 – 12 November 2001) was an American burlesque dancer. She was best known for a twenty-minute dance which she performed...
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    You Love Me," which pays tribute to the American pin-up queen of the 1950s, Bettie Page. The American burlesque performer Dita Von Teese is often referred...
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  • Rose La Rose (category American burlesque performers)
    1916? – July 27, 1972) was an American burlesque dancer, film actress, and stripper nicknamed the "Queen of Burlesque," the title of a 1946 Hollywood...
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    Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and in...
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    literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business", vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for...
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  • Burlesque: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released by Screen Gems, Inc and RCA Records on November...
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    Virginia Bell (actress) (category American burlesque performers)
    go on to produce some of her earliest movies. Bell began her career in burlesque at age 22. By the 1950s, Bell began posing for men's magazines. Virginia...
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  • Empire Burlesque is the twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 10, 1985 on Columbia Records. Self-produced...
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    Gypsy Rose Lee (category American burlesque performers)
    (born Rose Louise Hovick, January 8, 1911 – April 26, 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, actress, author, playwright and vedette famous...
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    Bert Lahr (category American burlesque performers)
    (1939). He was well known for his quick-witted humor and his work in burlesque and vaudeville and on Broadway. Lahr was born as Irving Lahrheim on August...
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    Lou Costello (category American burlesque performers)
    and their routine "Who's on First?". Abbott and Costello, who teamed in burlesque in 1936, were among the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in...
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  • Margaret Hart Ferraro (category American burlesque performers)
    better known as Margie Hart, was a New York City stripteaser, in American burlesque theatre. Hart was born Margaret Bridget Bryan on September 28, 1913...
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  • Mara Gaye (category American burlesque performers)
    dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes (1938–1943), and exotic burlesque striptease dancer of the 1940s through the 1960s. She also performed under...
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    Shaul Guerrero (category American female professional wrestlers)
    Shaul Marie Guerrero (born October 14, 1990) is an American burlesque performer and retired professional wrestler and ring announcer. She is best known...
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    Lili St. Cyr (category American burlesque performers)
    29, 1999), known professionally as Lili St. Cyr, was a prominent American burlesque dancer and stripper. St. Cyr was born Marie Frances Van Schaack in...
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  • Candy Barr (category American burlesque performers)
    30, 2005), better known by her stage name Candy Barr, was an American stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and adult model in men's magazines of the mid-20th...
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  • Owens (American football) (born 1986), American football player Chris Owens (basketball) (born 1979), American basketball player Chris Owens (burlesque performer)...
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    as children, and toured the United States sideshow, vaudeville and American burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s. They were best known for their film...
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    Anastasia Elfman (category American burlesque performers)
    Anastasia Elfman (born April 1, 1990) is an American actress, dancer and burlesque artist. Anastasia was raised in Laguna Beach, California, the daughter...
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    Bud Abbott (category American burlesque performers)
    father became a longtime advance man for the Columbia Burlesque Wheel. During the summer, when burlesque was on hiatus, his father worked at Dreamland Park...
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    Striptease (category Burlesque)
    performs a striptease is commonly known as a "stripper" or an "exotic" or "burlesque" dancer. The origins of striptease as a performance art are disputed and...
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    Phyllis Smith (category American burlesque performers)
    dancer, a cheerleader for the St. Louis Cardinals football team, and a burlesque performer. She said that there was "no stripping, but I did wear feathers...
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