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'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' actress dies at 72
LOS ANGELES — Tura Satana, who gained cult status for her role in the 1965 Russ Meyer movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" has died of heart failure at age 72.
The Los Angeles Times reports Satana's death was confirmed by her manager, Siouxzan Perry, who said Satana died Friday at a hospital in Reno, Nev.
In "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Satana played Varla, the leader of a trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers who kills a man with her bare hands. The women then set out to rob a wealthy older man who lives on a desert ranch with his two sons.
Meyer has said the movie was an "absolute loser" when released but was rediscovered by the 1990s. It has since been shown at film festivals and art house cinemas.
Satana's other credits include the 1963 film "Irma La Douce" and the television shows "Burke's Law" and "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
Rosita Royce - 1940's
The Theatre: Bird Fancier
Time Magazine
Monday, Jul. 22, 1940
Eight times a day weekdays, ten times on Sundays and holidays for the past two months, Rosita Royce has confronted sightseers at the White Way Casino of the New York World's Fair. They ogled her while she strip-teased to the point where her costume consisted mainly of seven doves or alternately of a cockatoo called "Silly Billy" and a macaw named "Red." One day last week she was asked to give an eleventh performance. She indignantly refused. Said she: "The doves are worn out. I care more for their health than for my own."
So Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary and the poachers would be kinder to her stock.
In America, striptease started in traveling carnivals and burlesque theatres, and featured famous strippers such as Gypsy Rose Lee and Sally Rand. The vaudeville trapeze artist, Charmion, performed a "disrobing" act onstage as early as 1896, which was captured in the 1901 Edison film, Trapeze Disrobing Act. Another milestone for modern American striptease is the possibly legendary show at Minsky's Burlesque in April 1925: The Night They Raided Minsky's.
Blaze Starr - 1950's
Blaze Starr is an American former stripper and burlesque star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also known for her affair with Louisiana governor Earl Long.
Starr moved to Baltimore, Maryland where she began performing at the Two O'Clock Club nightclub in 1950, eventually becoming its headliner. Starr rose to national renown after she was profiled in a February 1954 Esquire magazine article, "B-Belles of Burlesque: You Get Strip Tease With Your Beer in Baltimore". The Two O'Clock Club remained her home base, but she began to travel and perform in clubs throughout the country.
In the late 1950s, while working at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, Starr began a long-term affair with then-governor Earl Long. Starr was in the process of divorcing her husband, club owner Carroll Glorioso, and Long was married to the state's first lady, known colloquially as Miz Blanche. Starr and Long's relationship, invoked as one reason for Long being involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, lasted until his death in 1960. In his will, Long left her $50,000, which she refused to accept.
Two of Starr's performances, including the combustible sofa, are among the burlesque routines featured in the 1956 compilation film Buxom Beautease, produced and directed by Irving Klaw.
What Happened on 23rd Street, NYC - 1901
August 21, 1901. Thomas A. Edison Inc. Alfred C. Abadie (the swell), Florence Georgie (the girl) Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and George S. Fleming [?] This film is a very early effort at presenting a ''story'' on film, in this case a punch line of sorts when a young lady has a Marilyn Monroe moment over a sidewalk steam vent. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it did not take much to make a man smile. A glimpse of stocking covered ankle or calf was enough. The early films 'Tenderloin at Night' (1899), and 'Two A.M. in the Subway' (1905) are other examples of 'leg show' Kinetoscopes from the period. This was shot on 23rd Street facing 6th Avenue. The Sixth Avenue 'El' can be seen beyond the lamppost in the background. The following year (1902) on 23rd Street between Fifth and Broadway, D. H. Burnham's Fuller or ''Flatiron'' Building was complete. It was quickly discovered that the wind in the area whipped up a mean gust which gave interested males a new hobby. If one stood around long enough during windy seasons, it might be possible to catch a glimpse of some frail's ankle. If it was really windy and a feller was really lucky and the gal was really unaware then maybe, just maybe, a guy could see some calf in a sudden gust.* The cops walking the beat along Twenty-third Street would make the leering young (and old) men move along with a wave of the nightstick and a pithy ''No loitering...skidoo!,'' giving rise to the term ''23 skidoo.'' Given that absolutely everyone wore hats, I'm sure it was also a common sight to see some boaters, bowlers, and feminine flowered chapeaus escape the head of their owners and roll away.* As if that isn't enough, they had to hope their hat wouldn't score a hit with one of those 'gifts' left behind by the numerous city work horses!
Russ Meyer: Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens trailer - 1979
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) is a satirical sexploitation film starring Kitten Natividad and Ann Marie with a cameo by Uschi Digard. It was directed by American motion picture director Russ Meyer, and written by Roger Ebert and Meyer. Russ Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer. Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and voluptuous women.
