Starr, Blaze: 8"x10" photo / still – {b} Blaze Starr. Legendary Stripper
Condition: (VF/NM) VERY FINE-NEAR MINT (9.0 on scale of 1-10) or better*
Signed “With Love and Lust Always, Blaze Starr”*
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Legendary stripper and burlesque dancer Blaze Starr
was born Fannie Belle Fleming in 1932 in Wilsondale, West Virginia. Her parents
were Lora Evans and Goodlow Mullins. She had ten siblings. Blaze left home and
moved to Washington, DC while only in her mid-teens. She was discovered by her
first manager Red Snyder working as either a hat-check girl or at a donut shop.
Starr got her stage name from Snyder, but, nonetheless, still left him after he
attempted to rape her. With her fiery red hair, shapely and voluptuous
38D-24-37 figure, and sultry, energetic, and captivating stage presence (her
stage routines included a comedic exploding coach gag and having a large
trained black panther untie a ribbon on her costume, which made it fall to the
floor), Blaze became a major headliner at the Two O'Clock Club in Baltimore,
Maryland, and earned the nicknames "Miss Spontaneous Combustion" and
"The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque." Starr made $1,500 dollars per week
at the peak of her stripping career. Among the men's magazines she appeared in
at the height of her fame are "Sizzle," "Ace,"
"Scamp," "Sir!," "Best for Men,"
"Rogue," and "Modern Man." Moreover, Starr posed for
pictures for noted fetish photographer Irving Klaw.
Blaze achieved her greatest notoriety in the late 1950s as the paramour for
Louisiana state governor Earl Kemp Long (Earl Long);
this affair inspired the 1989 feature film Blaze (1989),
which even has a cameo from Ms. Starr as a stripper. She portrayed herself in
the immensely popular Doris Wishman
nudie cutie romp Blaze Starr Goes
Nudist (1962). In 1974, Starr wrote the
autobiographical book "Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry."
Blaze retired from stripping in 1983. In 1989, Starr had become a gemologist
who spent several holiday seasons selling hand-crafted jewelry at the
Carrolltowne Mall in Eldersburg, Maryland. Blaze also owned and operated the
Two O'Clock Club in Baltimore, Maryland. Starr died at age 83 on June 15, 2015
at her home in Wilsondale, West Virginia
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