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Sally Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sally Rand (January 2, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was born Harriet Helen Gould Beck in Hickory County, Missouri. Cecil B. deMille gave her the name Sally Rand. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1927. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sally_Rand   (230 words)

Sally Rand Sally Rand is a most attractive Terpsichorean Temptress, of whom no one can sing, "I Wonder What's Become of Sally," for she is an outstanding feature of all the best clubs on New York City's famous Broadway, and on other Broadways throughout the country from coast to coast, as well as in Canada. "Sally Rand" was born as Harriet Helen Gould Beck in the Ozark Mountain town of Elkton, Missouri on Easter Sunday, the 3rd of April, 1904. Sally was interested in dance from an early age and, literally, ran away with a carnival as a teenager. www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/sally/sallydex.html   (3596 words)

Sally Rand - The Music Box and Sally Rand Nude Ranch at Treasure Island - 1939 Sally Rand, who said she was born in 1904, may have been an “overnight sensation” in Chicago, but had appeared in motion pictures and vaudeville from the 1920s. Sally Rand came to prominence during the 1933-1934 Chicago Century of Progress world’s fair that was to celebrate the progress of civilization during Chicago’s first century of existence. In the Treasure Island amusement zone, known as the “Gayway,” was the Sally Rand Nude Ranch, one of the highlights of the fair. www.sfmuseum.org /bio/rand.html   (590 words)

Sally Rand: Who's Who In Hollywood Privately, Sally Rand is petite, bouncy, and miniskirted, and lives in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed mansion in Glendora, Calif. Sally Rand says she does "exactly the same" dance... How good her act is at this late date is indicated by Hollywood Reporter critic Sue Cameron, who reviewed a 1974 performance in L.A. and found the fan dance "glorious" ("The way she moves those fans is an art") and the bubble number "remarkable" (The audience loved her"). www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/sally/sr-who.html   (368 words)

The Kentucky Post The answer to both would be a petite dancer named Sally Rand and her bag full of feathers. Rand's stay in Northern Kentucky took a turn when it was announced that she would make an appearance at the Covington Optimist Club fair at Twin Oaks Country Club courtesy of Jimmy Brink. Rand, who was staying in Cincinnati, was met at the Suspension Bridge by Covington Police Chief Al Schlidt and escorted to the fair site. www.kypost.com /2005/03/28/reis03-28-2005.html   (700 words)

Rand McNally - Timeline Rand McNally inspires the stage name of "Sally Rand," the famous fan dancer and star of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Rand McNally continues to move forward with a spirit of innovation that is all about bringing the best products and services to our customers. Rand McNally uses a new wax engraving method, which significantly reduces the cost of printing maps. www.randmcnally.com /rmc/company/cmpTimeLine.jsp   (1095 words)

Cycling '74 sally Sally or The Bubble Burst uses speech recognition and synthesis to allow viewers to enter the world of Sally, an inhabitable responsive narrative character based on the 1930's fan and bubbledancer Sally Rand. Sally creates a unique, intimate kind of interactivity as viewers speak and sing, and use mouse and keyboard to inhabit and converse with the unpredictable Sally as she casts an uncanny shadow into the present. Sally is played by Helen Pickett, of the Forsythe Ballet and the Wooster Group, who choreographed the bubble dance based on the 1930's original. www.cycling74.com /products/sally.html   (313 words)

1312 - Sally Rand Bubble Dance Tru-Vue filmstrip: 3dstereo - ViewMaster, Stereo 3D Photography, & Supplies Sally Rand in her Bubble Dance - The Bubble Dance created by Sally Rand as a poetic interpretation of life - performed before thousands of attendees to the Century of Progress, Chicago World's Fair, 1933 and 1934. A follow up to the Sally Rand Fan Dance, Sally Rand used a large 5 foot clear plastic ball in a sensual, artistic dance that most often included a just a pair of shoes as the rest of her costume. See Sally Rand perform the act that audiences worldwide would enthusiastically demand she perform for the next 30 years. www.3dstereo.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TVS-1312&Category_Code=tvs-nc&Product_Count=6   (206 words)

Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Sally Rand - Main Page Rand started a career in motion pictures, making over 20 silent pictures until the advent of talkies as well as some 16mm films of her dances. Sally left home at the age of thirteen to work as a cigarette girl in a nightclub in Kansas City and a few others before arriving in Hollywood. Miss Rand was also well known for her "Bubble Dance" and "Fan Dance" routines. www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2srand1.htm   (239 words)

ODAAT: one day at a time... Thu, 29 Jul 2004 Sally Rand (1904-1979) was no ecdysiast, however, because as she carefully explained, she started out naked. The collection focuses on Bob Hope and American Variety, but the Variety medium also encompassed burlesque shows, and with our louche tastes we soon homed in on one of its classiest artistes, Sally Rand, a famous fan dancer who later developed an innovative act as a bubble dancer. In a recent column, Michael Dale claimed that Sally had attracted "…more total ticket buyers than any other live performer of the 20th Century…" and went on to detail the return of burlesque to the New York entertainment scene. www.pishtush.com /camwrangler/z040729.html   (476 words)

April 3, 2000 American actress and burlesque innovator Sally Rand was born on this day in 1904. In honor of Sally Rand's legacy, today we feature a burlesque show by artist Elizabeth Olds. Rand's most well-known creation was her exotic fan dance. americanart.si.edu /1001/2000/04/040300.html   (76 words)

Let There Be Light - Robert A. Heinlein Sally Rand is the real fan dancer and actress who became famous at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933; earlier she was a high-school classmate of Heinlein's in Kansas City. Rather like lingerie, Sally Rand's fan dances and bubble dances were choreographed to be teasing and flirtatious without being revealing; sexy fun, but safely within the law. Aside from the personal connection with Heinlein, I'd rate Sally Rand as intrinsically a more interesting figure than the later, supposedly more timely or contemporary, substitutions into this passage of World War II pinup Betty Grable or 1950s actress Marilyn Monroe. www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Let-There-Be-Light.html   (967 words)

Animal Haven exposes Fans! A Sally Rand Centennial Celebration and Burlesque is Back! (BroadwayWorld.com) The influence of Sally Rand and the stripteasers of the 1940's and 50's on today's new burlesque performers is the attitude of making a place for yourself in a world of conformity, in a world of commerce. Sally Rand, who revolutionized exotic dance in the 1930's by combining classical ballet with peek-a-boo titillation, knew how to tease the public, both on stage and off. Sally Rand toured extensively in the 1930's with a troupe of dancers during the depression, often booking, choreographing, and even building the actual stage. broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=1002   (1544 words)

1933: Awe-inspiring fair takes center stage Sally Rand, the "fan dancer" from the World's Fair, leaves her ostrich plumes at home to attend opening night of the Empire Room in the Palmer House with her date, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, who now is a 94-year-old U.S. District senior judge. But it was the undulations of Sally Rand that stole the show. A movie actress whose stage name was chosen by Cecil B. DeMille, Rand fell from favor when the talkies took over because of her lisp. www.suntimes.com /century/m1933x.html   (713 words)

Home Sally went on to become the sex symbol of the Nation.  Sally Rand was the Madonna of her day and more.  Her dance was provocative, yes-but graceful and all in good taste –contrary to the many arrests for obscenity which she fought in the courts, and won! I’m Holly Knox.  Glad you stopped by to learn more about Sally Rand!  My remembrances of Sally Rand brighten my day.  At her passing went a gutsy lady devoted to her craft, her family, her country and the whole spectrum of show business. The last time I saw Sally, she was playing at the Gay Nineties Club on Hennepin Street in Minneapolis, living in an apartment/hotel for the length of the engagement. sally-rand.com   (161 words)

Rand, the on Encyclopedia.com Rand, who was pushed out of Hollywood when sound came, is famed as the most lauded fan dancer of the 20th century. Built by a prominent Twin Cities family in 1884, the Rand House in Monticello, Minnesota, was a weekend retreat; it still is today, except now it's a Bed and Breakfast. RAND BEERS: Kerry's foreign-policy adviser could play that role again in a Kerry White House.. www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-R1and.asp   (810 words)

World's Fairs One of the most popular attractions at the 1933 A Century of Progress Exposition was Sally Rand and her fan dance. Sally became notorious for her performance, in which she used two seven-pound fans to coyly conceal her nude body. An original donation of her fans was rejected by CHS, which insulted Rand, but the museum eventually accepted a set of fans in 1966. www.chicagohs.org /treasures/world.html   (96 words)

SALLY RAND - ANNOTATED TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/22/1974 Rand introduced her infamous fan dance to the masses on May 30, 1933 at the Chicago World's Fair, using two large ostrich feather fans she had purchased at a second-hand shop. In the year she signed this letter, the "Queen of the Fan Dance" both became a grandmother and continued her grueling schedule, working an average of 40 weeks before appreciative admirers. The following year, looking for something new for the Fair, she developed her "bubble dance", using a 60-inch diameter balloon that she had developed herself. www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2003/women/SALLY_RAND.htm   (266 words)

Pin-ups Sally Rand's first big performance, the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair.  She performed for over 3 decades, doing her famous 'fan dance' for  male and female audiences. To many collectors, the 'Sally Rand' FAN DANCER is a must, especially when found in very good condition. fan dancer Sally Rand and movie actress Betty Grable. chalkman.homestead.com /Pin_ups.html   (480 words)

Great American Music Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1936, Sally Rand (inventor of the bubble dance) acquired the property and branded it the Music Box. Its interior was designed by a French architect and Chris Buckley; they called it Blanco's - a notorious Barbary Coast establishment that lasted until 1933. But after World War II, the club went into a long decline that nearly ended in the destruction of its building. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_American_Music_Hall   (190 words)

Sally Rand Fans Ostrich Feather custom made for Burlesque performers, pin-ups, striptease When I first discovered Sally Rand, I fell in love with the idea of her fans and the bird wings movesments she incorporated in her fan dance. To honor Sally and her fan dancing I have continued the legacy of making the huge fans that she once used. Sally began her fan dancing career in the 1930's. www.burlesquecostumes.com /SallyRandFans.html   (219 words)

CDeMUSIC The main character is Sally Rand, well-known fan and bubble dancer from the 1930s, who does her famous bubble dance on screen, authentically recreated by dancer Helen Pickett from research, photos, and newsreels. Sally sings 1930s songs and speaks about the Great Depression in response to a voice input, via microphone, or to tapping on computer keys. 'Sally' or 'The Bubble Burst' is an interactive DVD-ROM by Toni Dove. www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=cy506   (135 words)

Search Results for RAND - Encyclopædia Britannica American publishers and printers of maps, atlases, globes, and tourist guidebooks; its headquarters are in Skokie, Ill. Founded in 1856 by William H. Rand and Andrew McNally and incorporated in... Overview of this society affiliated to the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), with a view to foster the scholarly study by philosophers of the philosophical thought and writings of Ayn Rand. Includes the Routledge Encyclopedia entry, a select bibliography of Rand's works, and details of the 2001 program. www.britannica.com /search?query=RAND&ct=   (411 words)

RTI International Welcomes Former RAND Researcher Sally Morton as Vice President for Statistics and Epidemiology She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and was selected as RAND Health's "Mentor of the Year" in 2003. Morton, who previously held the RAND Chair in Statistics and also directed their Health Research Methods Program, will lead a new unit at RTI that consolidates statistics, epidemiology and medical studies programs. Sally Morton Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science www.rti.org /page.cfm?nav=640&objectid=FE03C675-B163-48F0-AFA3C128A2852F57   (442 words)

Today's Feature The title derives from a waistcoat worn by George Washington (a velvet floral affair suitable for today's young hipsters) to the ostrich feather fans employed by dancer Sally Rand to showcase her bare bod. First stop for the children: Sally Rand's nudie show. A television mounted in one of the gallery walls even shows Rand performing one of her sensuous dances; a placard warns parents that the stripper shows some skin at the end of the routine. www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/feature/attic111898.html   (308 words)

SALLY RAND - ANNOTATED CHECK SIGNED 07/29/1966 Rand staged her famous "fan dance" at the 1933 World's Fair, invented a bubble dance for the 1934 Chicago Fair and staged "nude shows" for other exhibitions. Show through from bank stamp on verso touches "Sally". She also was a model for early "girlie" magazines, appeared in Las Vegas and had a weekly television program over her long career. www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2002/women/SALLY_RAND.htm   (196 words)

Broadway To Vegas June 20, 2004 Sally Rand is an American icon, best known for her famous "fan dance." She was born as Harriet Helen Gould Beck in the Ozark Mountain town of Elkton, Missouri on Easter Sunday, the 3rd of April, 1904. Rand used her dancing talent and flamboyant style as an exotic dancer in burlesque houses across the country. When singer Sally Mayes opened a press conference last Tuesday singing A Trip to the Library, from the Bock and Harnick Broadway show She Loves Me, the staging couldn't have been better. www.broadwaytovegas.com /June20,2004.html   (5108 words)

Betsy's Backyard Follies. Sally Rand Sally was a smash hit at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 and appeared at the New York's World's Fair in 1939. Although her hayday was between the two World Wars, she continued preforming until she was seventy-five years old. During her career, she made twenty one silent films. www.backyardfollies.com /sally.htm   (88 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Sunset Murder Case : Main Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, was the star of the 1938 Grand National production The Sunset Murder Case. Celebrity fan-dancer Sally Rand, the undraped sensation of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair,... Borrowing a page from the Bob Steele westerns, La Rand is cast as a nightclub dancer who hopes to avenge her father's murderer. www.vh1.com /movies/movie/75658/moviemain.jhtml   (120 words)

A Sally Rand Centennial Celebration Sally Rand's D/Nude Ranch was introduced by Carlin Glynn and sung by Ilene Kristen. Kudos to Sally Rand, and kudos to all tonight's dancers and performers who volunteered their efforts and time on behalf of Animal Haven. According to tonight's program notes, Sally Rand was seen by more people than any other live entertainer of the 20th Century. www.exploredance.com /sallyrand062704.php   (474 words)

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