Her love life was as high profile as her career Storm had relationships with Mickey Rooney, Elvis Presley, JFK and Nat King Cole, among others.įilmmaker Mukerji says, “For Tempest, on stage, it was about feeling in control and feeling powerful. She was a global phenomenon - Tempest in a D-cup, they called her - long before social media existed, and by 1956 she was earning $100,000 a year. Storm was barely out of her teens when found her way to the chorus line in a Hollywood club, then became a stripper and eventually a burlesque superstar, headlining Vegas shows and appearing in movies. “I thought, ‘It’s time for me to get the hell out of here and do something to better my life.’” “One night I woke up in bed and my stepfather was on top of me,” she says. “They’d pull my hair and laugh when I got up to make a speech in class,” she continues, describing the bullying that eventually escalated into sexual assault. “I left school in seventh grade,” says Storm, who visited Toronto with Nimisha Mukerji (65 Redroses), director of Tempest Storm. The engaging documentary traces her journey from grinding poverty in the rural south to fame and fortune on the burlesque circuit born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman, Georgia, Storm was already tall, beautiful and bosomy by middle school - and subjected to unwanted male attention and aggression as a result.
TEMPEST STORM MOVIE
Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ new documentary on the life and work of burlesque queen Tempest Storm makes one thing very clear: She did it her way.Īt 88 (and a ringer for Rita Hayworth), the legendary exotic dancer is retired from the stage but on the road to promote Tempest Storm, the movie now playing in select cities.
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