This blog by mikl-em (I played Sugarchurch) features Stuff about carnival sideshows, the 1800's to 1930’s, Vaudeville, clowns, freaks, silent film, or whatever else seems to fit.
Lili St. Cyr (aka. Marie Van Schaak) appears in a pictorial scanned from the pages of the October ‘48 issue of ‘Beauty Parade’ magazine. via burleskateer
From the 1940s and most of the 1950s, St. Cyr with Gypsy Rose Lee and Ann Corio were the most recognized acts in striptease.[8] St. Cyr’s stage name is a patronymic of the French aristocracy, which she first used when booked as a nude performer in Las Vegas.[6] Although more obscure toward the end of her life, her name popped-up regularly in 1950s tabloids: stories of her many husbands, brawls over her, and her attempted suicides.
Lili St. Cyr (aka. Marie Van Schaak) appears in a pictorial scanned from the pages of the October ‘48 issue of ‘Beauty...
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