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| |alias= | | |alias= Fannie Belle Fleming |
| |birth month= January | | |birth month= April |
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| |birth year= 1932 | | |birth year= 1932 |
| |birth location= Wilsondale, West Virginia, U.S. | | |birth location= Wilsondale, West Virginia, U.S. |
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| |death year= | | |death day= 15 |
| |measurements= 38DD-24-37<ref name="BDH">[http://www.streetswing.com/histburl/a2blazstar.htm Street Swing - Burlesque]</ref> | | |death year= 2015 |
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| '''Blaze Starr''' (born January 1, [[1932]]) is a former [[American]] [[stripper]] and [[Exotic dancers|burlesque]] star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also notorious for her affair with Louisiana governor Earl Long. | | '''Blaze Starr''' ([[April 10]], [[1932]]-[[June 15]], [[2015]]) was a [[American]] [[stripper]] and [[Exotic dancers|burlesque]] star. Her vivacious presence and inventive use of stage props earned her the nickname "The Hottest Blaze in Burlesque". She was also notorious for her affair with Louisiana governor Earl K. Long. |
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| == Early years == | | ==External links== |
| Blaze Starr was born '''Fannie Belle Fleming''' in rural Wilsondale, Wayne County, West Virginia to Lora Evans and Goodlow Mullins (later changed to "Fleming").<ref>[http://www.wargs.com/other/fleming.html "Ancestry of Blaze Starr", compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner]</ref> Fleming left home and moved to Washington, D.C. when she was sixteen, where Red Snyder discovered her either working in a doughnut shop (according to her autobiography) or as a hat-check girl (according to other sources).
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| Snyder became Fleming's first manager, encouraged her to start stripping, and gave her the stage name Blaze Starr. After he attempted to rape her, however, Starr left Snyder.
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| Starr moved to Baltimore, Maryland, eventually becoming a headliner at the Two O'Clock Club nightclub. 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 started to travel and perform in clubs throughout the country.
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| == Onstage presence ==
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| [[Image:Blaze_Starr_Cleveland_Press_3-1-1968b.jpg|left|thumb|999x180px|''Cleveland Press'' ad for a Blaze Starr performance in 1968.]]
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| Starr's striking [[red hair]], voluptuous figure and on-stage enthusiasm were a large part of her appeal. The theatrical flourishes and unique gimmicks she used in her stage show went beyond established burlesque routines like the fan dance and balloon dance.
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| For example, Starr trained a panther to remove her clothes onstage. After it died unexpectedly, she decided to imitate a panther onstage instead, snarling at her audience while writhing on all fours. This performance, which she made a regular part of her act, eventually got her arrested for obscenity in Philadelphia.
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| Perhaps her most famous prop was a couch that she rigged to smolder and then appear to burst into flame as she sat on it and undressed.
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| == Relationship with Earl Long ==
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| 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. Long left her $50,000 in his will, which she refused to accept.
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| The 1989 movie ''Blaze'' recounts the story of their relationship. It was directed by Ron Shelton, adapted by him from Starr's 1974 memoir ''Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry''. [[Lolita Davidovich]] portrays Starr in the movie, and Paul Newman plays Long. Starr herself appears in a cameo.
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| == Starr immortalized on film ==
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| [[Image:Blaze Starr Goes Nudist.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Theatrical poster to ''Blaze Starr Goes Wild'' aka ''Blaze Starr Goes Nudist'']]
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| 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.
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| Director [[Doris Wishman]]'s 1960 film ''Blaze Starr Goes Wild'', a nudie-sexploitation film, features Starr's one lead movie role. As the title suggests, she plays herself. The film is also known as ''Back to Nature'', ''Blaze Starr Goes Back to Nature'', ''Blaze Starr Goes Nudist'', ''Blaze Starr the Original'', ''Busting Out'' and ''Nature Girl''.
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| Diane Arbus photographed Starr in 1964. The photo "Blaze Starr at home" was included in the book and traveling exhibit ''Diane Arbus: Family Albums''.
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| == Retirement ==
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| Starr eventually bought the Two O'Clock Club, which she still owns and manages. Some of her costumes and other memorabilia have been displayed at the Museum of Sex in New York City and the[Burlesque Hall of Fame. In the early 1980s, Starr made an appearance at the Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, California. She retired from stripping in 1983, and by 1989 had become a gemologist who spent several holiday seasons selling hand-crafted jewelry at the Carrolltowne Mall in Eldersburg, Maryland. near Baltimore.<ref>[http://franklovece.com/subpage.html#blaze ''Los Angeles Times'' (December 13, 1989): "Starr Power: The Life and Times of a Striptease Queen", by Frank Lovece]</ref>
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| ==Footnotes==
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| * Starr, Blaze and Perry, Huey. ''Blaze Starr: My Life''. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc. 1974.
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| [[Category:Irving Klaw models]] | | [[Category:Irving Klaw models]] |
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