Tag: burlesque

Betty Compson is Tillie de Vamp

Betty Compson as Tillie de Vamp in an Al Christie’s comedy: Hist! At Six O’clock (1916)
“The Vamp Primes Herself with Poison Gas”. Betty Compson as the vampire in Hist! At Six O’clock”. Motion Picture News, December 1916. | src internet archive
Eddie Barry and Betty Compson in a Christie Comedy of the 1913 vintage.
Betty Compson in in a Christy diversion entitled “Hist at Six o’clock”. December, 1919 issue of Photoplay magazine

Nu au voile ~ Burlesque ~ Harlip

Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 3 (Nu au voile - Nu féminin debout), Germany, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print.
Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 3, Germany, ca. 1930. | src anamorfose
Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 4 (Nu au voile - Nu féminin debout), Germany, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print.
Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 4, Germany, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print. | src anamorfose and Drouot
Gregory Harlip :: Nu au voile - Nu féminin debout années 1920-1930.
Gregory Harlip :: Nu au voile – Nu féminin debout; années 1920-1930. | src Drouot

Harlip was a photography studio specializing in celebrity portraits and based in London. Until 1937, the Harlip studio had its headquarters on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Afterwards, the Harlips left Berlin due to the growing crackdown on Jewish businesses and moved to London. After Dr. Harlip’s death in 1945, Mrs. Harlip continued the business there as one of the great socialite photographers of the 1950s. / src Drouot

Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 2, Germany, ca. 1930. | src anamorfose
Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 1 (Nu au voile - Nu féminin debout), Germany, ca. 1930. Vintage silver print.
Dr. Gregory Harlip :: Burlesque # 1, ca. 1930. | src anamorfose

Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

src New York Public Library (NYPL)

Tinker Bell was a professional dancer trained in ballet, tap and adagio dancing. Her first job in burlesque was as a chorus girl at the famous New York city club, Leon & Eddie’s. Tinker Bell stripping career really took off (pun intended) in Washington DC while she was performing at the Wayne Room in 1956. She quickly became a crowd favorite and shortly thereafter, she was touring the country. Tinker Bell is shown here modeling her costume for her Cleopatra act.

Source: burlyqnell