Vintage Original 1950s Dixie Evans Cheesecake Los Angeles Burlesque Pin Up Photo

Description: *See Photo For Details* Vintage Original Dixie Evans 1950s Cheesecake Los Angeles Pin Up Strip Burlesque History Original 8x10 Silver Gelatin Photo.Mary Lee "Dixie" Evans (August 28, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was an American burlesque dancer and stripper.Career[edit]Evans was best known for a burlesque parody she performed as Marilyn Monroe. Evans entered show-business as a model and later chorus girl before becoming a star dancer. By the early 1950s she was a headlining burlesque star on the West Coast when approached by producer Harold Minsky with a promise of steady work in his chain of theaters if she adapted her stage persona to that of then-rising star Marilyn Monroe. At first Evans objected but soon agreed. Like other strippers of the time period (including Lili St. Cyr and Jennie Lee), Evans was extremely well known in nightclubs and was largely under-paid. Evans's Monroe-burlesque act was the dancer's gimmick. Several other dancers also parodied female stars and noted historic women. Her acts parodied Monroe's films and known aspects of Monroe's life.[1]In real life Evans was three inches bigger in her breast than Monroe: Evans (est. 40-26-34) and Monroe (est. 37-24-35). According to the reporters, Evans looked very like Monroe. When Monroe died in 1962, Evans prepared a tribute show which was well received by critics and audiences. Evans soon came to feel disturbed by being sometimes mistaken for the dead star and curtailed the act, replacing it with a parody of Irma La Douce. Evans was still a draw, but the burlesque she loved was drying up and as she entered her late thirties she retired from performing and helped run the entertainment at a resort facility.Upon the death of her close-friend and dancer Jennie Lee in 1990, Evans took over the annual reunion meetings of the Exotic Dancers League Lee had helped found and the burlesque collectible museum, Exotic World, later Burlesque Hall of Fame that Lee had owned and run. In 1991, Evans began to produce annual fundraising shows to support the museum and its holdings. The museum consisted of hundreds of items used in burlesque entertainers' acts over the years and was moved from its original location in 2005 and 2006.[2] Evans had returned to modeling in the late 1980s and resumed performing during the first dozen years of the events, later limiting herself to on-stage addresses. Her last full-fledged Monroe impersonation may have been at the 2002 Tease-O-Rama event where she mimicked Monroe's performance of "Runnin' Wild" from the film Some Like It Hot. She also gave numerous tours of the museum at its original location and would recite bits of her old Monroe acts in her uncannily accurate Monroe soundalike voice for attendees.Death[edit]Evans died in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 86.[3][4]CONTACT: Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. I do my best to provide you with the most accurate information. PAYMENT: Payment must be made within 3 days of auction end. If for some reason, you cannot make the payment in the time specified, please contact me. COMBINE SHIPPING: I do offer combine shipping on all auctions. If you purchase more than 1 auction, please wait for me to invoice you so I can combine shipping. All items ship by USPS and/or UPS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: The Global Shipping Program in Kentucky will be processing your order and they determine the shipping price with any and all import charges. Please keep in mind that I do not determine the shipping price eBay does. 11

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