Tempest Storm

A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.

The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by HBO in 2006, the main person concerned reacted unequivocally: “Lies! Lies!” In a long interview recorded shortly before her death, the woman who entered the collective unconscious as the ultimate pin-up gave her version of events to director Mark Mori. In a gravelly voice, Bettie Page tells her own story and lifts the veil on areas often hidden by images that have made so many men and women fantasize since the 1950s: her abused childhood, an eclipse that lasted forty years, her mental illness. Through testimonies and unpublished archives, this documentary brings back to life a body and a face endlessly declined before our eyes, just as Bettie wanted: “I would like people to remember me as I was in the photos.”

bettie page documentary

Featuring the vintage films, and pictures that made her a phenomenon, BETTIE PAGE, THE GIRL IN THE LEOPARD PRINT BIKINI, focuses on the life and times of the legendary model, the times in which she lived, and the impact her career had on the subsequent fifty years.

Filmed record of a burlesque show, featuring Tempest Storm in a Technicolor segment.

Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.

Performances of the greatest exotic dancers are collected here for the first time, from Little Egypt in 1893 to the great striptease headliners of the golden age of Burlesque.

A filmed record of a typical '50s burlesque act, complete with strippers and baggy-pants comics.

Cut-n-paste job masquerading as a "documentary" on toplessness, feauring a strip routine by Tempest Storm that was filmed nearly two decades before.

Two American soldiers, locked up in a Parisian jail, recount their night of mishaps involving ladies of the evening, strip tease, and infidelity.

7 hi-point TITBITS. Classic Burlesque Stage Strippers in action with BETTY HOWARD, TEMPEST STORM in her classic ‘Desert Dance’, LILI ST. CYR in 2 stylish routines, and BLAZE STARR in ‘Dance of Fire’. Also lovely CANDEE EARLE, ELAINE JONES, gorgeous GABY and 8 more nicely naked nymphs.

Portland strippers' lives and struggles showcased. One battles a stalker, transforming from victim to pursuer. Book-inspired fictional narrative with realistic behind-the-scenes glimpses into exotic dancing world.

6 burlesque shows from 40ies and early 50ies that feature an orchestra, chorus lines, baggy pants comics and strippers.

A year in the life of the Palm Springs Follies, featuring beautiful, ageless performers from around the world in a show that is always Standing Room Only. The film intercuts colorful interviews with the participants and footage of auditions, rehearsals, and the actual performances.

Using the frame of an evening of vaudeville, eleven women perform striptease dances. Interspersed are four routines of comedians Joe Young and Gene Doyle.

Two police detectives are assigned to investigate the murders of several young women at a health club.

A filmed burlesque show, staged at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA.

The controversial life story of America's greatest exotic dancer, who at 87 years old is preparing for her final and most important act: to repair her broken relationship with her daughter Patricia, who she walked away from fifty years ago.

A collection of early shorts (a combination of old stag films, vintage shorts, cartoons, and films made for the Penny Arcades) is narrated by an unknown voice-over actor in this compilation piece.