Title: Feuding fan dancers
Description: "Some women capture our attention like no others. Faith Bacon and Sally Rand were beautiful blondes from humble backgrounds who shot to fame behind a pair of oversize ostrich fans, but with very different outcomes. Sally Rand would go on to perform for the millions who attended the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, becoming America’s sweetheart. Faith Bacon, the Marilyn Monroe of her time––once anointed the “world’s most beautiful woman”––would experience the dark side of fame and slip into drug use. It was the golden age of American entertainment, and Bacon and Rand fought their way through the competitive showgirl scene of New York with grit and perseverance. They played peek-a-boo with their lives, allowing their audiences to see only slivers of themselves. A hint of a breast? A forbidden love affair? They were both towering figures, goddesses, icons. Until the world started to change. Little is known about who they really were, until now"--
Subjects: Burlesque (Theater), Stripteasers, Biography, History, Striptease, Theater, united states, history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
Places: United States
People: Faith Bacon (1910-1956), Sally Rand (1904-1979)
Time periods: 20th century