Tempest Storm(1928-2021)

Actress

Tempest Storm in Behind the Burly Q (2010)

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Tempest Storm (2016)

A staple for many years at the El Ray Berlesk theatre in Oakland, Tempest Storm had a name suiting her past. She had run away from her home in Eastman, Georgia, after surviving abuse as a child and a rape by a local gang. Ariving in Studio City, Tempest got along well, managing not only on her naturally pronounced bosom, but on her genuine personality, intelligence and sharp sense of humor. When asked if she was ever embarrassed about her ample endowments, she answered, "They don't make 'em too big for this business." Tempest performed for years on stage, and appeared in a few burlesque films during the 1950s, as well as some wonderfully bad C-grade productions around the same time. She retired at the age of sixty.

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Known for

Mundo depravados

4.3

Tango - the Dancer -

1967

Paris After Midnight

4.2

Actress

1951

Paris Topless

5.2

Actress

1966

Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones

Music Video

Tempest Storm

2016

Height
- 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Born
- February 29, 1928
- Eastman, Georgia, USA
Died
- April 20, 2021
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Other works
Appeared in the striptease loop "The Big, Big Bust" (on "Grindhouse Follies Front Row Special" from Something Weird Video).
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From restaurant waitress in low-cut uniforms in the late 1940s (in Lafayette and Orinda, CA) she became an exotic dancer and stripper at the El Rey Burlesk at San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA. Peter A. DeCenzie presented her as Tempest Storm, from Paris. Still photographer Russ Meyer met her there, and contributed to her popularity with a number of photo-packs and 16mm Kodachrome films, shown as "French Peep Show". Her retirement as a stripper was announced in the 1960s but, according to an Associated Press release dated July 11, 2008, she was still stripping on stage in Las Vegas, and was not considering retirement.