Blaze Starr

On a fateful San Francisco night in the early '60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowered to the stage on a floating piano, topless. Word spread quickly, setting off a wave of controversy and delight, with raids soon to follow. There was even a trial for the new celebrity. Doda's dry wit and charisma made her an instant sensation of the night club scene: an empowered woman in full control. Or so it seemed.

Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.

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.

"Stars: The Best Of Videos 1992-2002" is a music video compilation DVD by the Irish rock band The Cranberries, released in late 2002 alongside their greatest hits album. The DVD features 17 official promotional music videos spanning a decade of the band's career, as well as alternative versions and live performances as bonus content.

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 baker’s dozen of classic nude figure models running the glamour gamut of pose, angle and jiggle with Hillside Heidi, bed blondie, an all nude Betty Page – lookalike boogie and BLAZE STARR’s pouty screen test.

BLAZE STARR in her 2 best films introduces a wild variety of bare beauty and innocent tease which define the nude glamour of the 50s induding outdoor nakedness, passion in the parlor and risque black lingerie.

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Earl K. Long is the only sitting governor ever committed to a mental institution, not once, but twice. Long was far from the “crazy country bumpkin” some claimed him to be. He was a sharp, fearless politician and a champion of working-class Louisianans. His private life also made headlines, particularly his highly publicized affair with New Orleans burlesque star Blaze Starr.

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.

Stripper Blaze Starr visits a nudist camp for a movie to escape her troubles. She decides to join them and for a while manages to keep it from her fiancé/agent but soon he grows suspicious of her activities.

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