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    American burlesque performer and actress

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    Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck. Rand got her start as a chorus girl before working as an acrobat and traveling theater performer.

  2. Mar 2, 2015 · Our Sally Rand biography looks at the most famous dancer in 1930s burlesque. See what fan dancers, balloon dancers and burlesque dancers owe this wonderful woman.

  3. Sep 30, 2021 · Sally Rand died of congestive heart failure at the Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, on Aug. 31, 1979. But her legendary routines live on in burlesque today, with high profile dancers like Dita Von Teese still paying tribute to her.

  4. Jan 16, 2013 · Burlesque dancer - Sally Rand's 'Bubble Dance'. In 1927 Miss Rand would be known as a WAMPAS Baby Star. Was to become famous for her Lady Godiva, Bubble and Fan Dance. To see her famous...

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  5. Sally Rand (born Jan. 2, 1904, Elkton, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 31, 1979, Glendora, Calif.) was an American actress and dancer who achieved fame as a fan dancer and bubble dancer. Helen Beck entered show business at an early age.

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  6. 22 million people visited the World’s Fair in 1933 and ’34, and almost all of them saw Sally Rand, earning her an iconic place in American popular culture. Rand performed for decades, well into the 1970s. She was immortalized as Sally Strand in the 1941 Tex Avery cartoon Hollywood Steps Out.

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  8. Sep 13, 2016 · A show flier advertising Sally Rand’s famous ‘bubble dance’ at the Paradise Cabaret in New York. Born Harriet Helen Gould Beck in the small town of Elkton Missouri, Rand left home in search of fame and fortune and joined a carnival. It would be one in a long line of jobs in the entertainment business that Rand would hold during her career.

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