“I met him in 1957 when he was a senator,” she said. Very polite.”Īs for JFK, their alleged fling started before he became president. He came over and sat down - he had the most beautiful eyes - and we got into a relationship and it was absolutely fantastic. We had a burlesque review and he came to see the show. I was appearing at The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas, which is now the Bellagio. “Elvis the Pelvis,” she told local news outlet WQAD8 in 2013. Storm also said she dated Elvis Presley and former President John F. She eventually took on the film world, scoring a role alongside Bettie Page in Irving Klaw’s 1955 film, “Teaserama.”īut her Hollywood story didn’t end there. Storm took the burlesque world by storm and by 1956 was the highest-paid performer ever with a 10-year contract at $100,000 at the Bryan-Engels burlesque production company. “Well, I said, I guess it might as well be Tempest Storm,” she said. She got an audition with Follies Theater by 1951 and had to choose a stage name - either Sunny Day or Tempest Storm.Īmerican stripper Tempest Storm poses next to a promotional poster for her burlesque act in front of a theater, 1954. Working as a waitress, a customer suggested she’d make money as a striptease performer. “She was perhaps the biggest of all.”įORMER FOUR SEASONS MEMBER JOE LONG DEAD AT 79īorn Annie Blanche Banks in 1928, Storm left home in the seventh grade and moved to Hollywood at the ripe age of 15 to pursue a career. “She was the last of the great legends in the golden age of burlesque,” added her longtime friend and business partner Harvey Robbins. “She will be missed terribly in the burlesque community and well beyond it.” “Tempest was easily one of the best-known and highest-regarded burlesque 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 also was struggling after undergoing hip surgery on April 8 and was under round-the-clock care until her death. Storm died in her Las Vegas apartment Tuesday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, and had been battling dementia in recent months. Tempest Storm, the fiery redhead known as a burlesque icon who starred in early Russ Meyer films, has died.
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