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Auction History Result 4j0399 TEASERAMA/VARIETEASE pressbook 1955 Bettie Page, Tempest Storm, Lily St. Cyr, rare! Date Sold 6/6/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 6 pages) (Learn More) the 1955 double-bill release of Teaserama, the 1955 Irving Klaw burlesque exotic dancers sexploitation movie ("New and Naughty"; "Teaserama features the world's most beautiful exotic girls, who strip to please. Exotic Trudy Watne, Burlesque's body beautiful; Bettie Page, billed as "Betty", the nation's top pin-up Queen; and buxom Cherry Knight's strip act. Tempest Storm is the girl with the 40 plus bust who goes 3D two better. So BIG we had to use widescreen to film Teaserama"; "See the striptease queens in action") starring Tempest Storm, Bettie Page (billed as "featuring Betty Page", but she is almost always billed as "Bettie"), Cherry Knight, Trudy Wayne, and Chris LaChris. AND Varietease, the 1954 Irving Klaw burlesque exotic dancers sexploitation movie ("It's Exciting! It's Thrilling!"; "It's new! It's daring!"; "In dazzling life-like color"; "Girls - gags and glamour glitter") starring Lili St. Cyr (billed as "The world's most beautiful, exotic woman Lili St. Cyr in her first full-length sensational feature"), Monica Lane, Bettie Page (billed as "With popular figure model Betty Page"), Cass Franklin, and Vicki Lynn (billed as "See dance by female impersonator Vicki Lynn"). Note that director Irving Klaw was a legendary figure in Hollywood photography! He was born in New York City, and his family owned a business which is known today as Movie Star News. He started in 1939 with used books, and in the 1940s, he began selling movie star photos, which sold so well that he gave up selling books, and concentrated on the photos. In the late 1940s, he discovered that selling images of sexy women in erotic poses (especially "bound" fetish poses) outsold the Hollywood photos, and he wanted to specialize in them, but he could not find enough of them to satisfy his customers. So his sister and he began taking photos of burlesque dancers (and his most famous model was Bettie Page), and he also got involved in publishing illustrated bondage books and even produced some burlesque movies such as these NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this pressbook, and that was 18 years ago! Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. Learn More about condition grades 
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