See her legendary fan dance performance which also made an appearance in the 1934 movie Bolero: Her most famous performance came at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair entitled Century of Progress.
Sally Rand set to work but ran out of time and the burlesque fan dance was born. She bought them, planning to upcycle the props and make a toga-type dress. Unluckily, she had a slight lisp and when films became talkies in the late 1920s she lost her career.Īccording to Sally Rand’s history, she was given short-notice for a dancing job and walking past a shop window saw a pair of vintage fans. Sally RandĬhicago burlesque legend, Sally Rand, was originally a silent movie actress. Find out what each woman brought to striptease during 30s burlesque. Not only did these Burly-Q Queens define the genre but they continued performing through the decades as burlesque legends. 30s BurlesqueĪ decade of innovation which produced some of the most iconic and influential burlesque dancers. Rivalries and disputes continue over who invented what, when, where and how.
Opening Day of Century of Progress, Photo: War Department/NARA Belgian Village with A&P carnival in foreground, Century of Progress, OctoPhoto: War Department/NARA Air Corps exhibition on opening day of the World's Fair, Photo: War Department/NARA Opening Day of second year, Century of Progress, Photo: War Department/NARA The Skyride above the Century of Progress, November 13, 1933.The most influential 30s burlesque dancers, who were successful in their decade and the genre. The photos were part of a series of aerial cityscapes, held at the National Archives, that record the evolution of the city during the 1920s and 1930s: the construction of Soldier Field, Grant Park, and Buckingham Fountain, the growth of Hyde Park, the evolution of the lakefront into how we recognize it today, and what thousands will see this Memorial Day weekend. Over the two years of the exposition, the War Department took aerial photos, capturing its spectacular architecture (the Ford building, the Travel and Transport Building) and its less timeless works (the Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium, the Midget Village). The august neoclassicism of the former was followed by the contemporary art deco the Ferris wheel by gondolas crossing from the lakefront to Northerly Island. If the Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the city's return from the Great Fire, the 1933’s Century of Progress celebrated the city moving into the modern era as one of the world's great cities. On this day 83 years ago, Chicago's second World's Fair, the Century of Progress exposition, opened on the lakefront.
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