Ann Corio 1942 Hand Signed 5x7 Burlesque Dancer Jungle Siren Stage Photo J14275 For Sale

DETAILS:Originalhand signed portraitphotograph ofAnn Corio. Photograph is printed on double weight photographic paper. Measures 5" x 7" inches. Please see item images for further details.



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BIOGRAPHY: Ann Corio (1909 – 1999) was a prominent American burlesque stripper and actress. After Mayor Fiorello La Guardia closed down New York City's burlesque houses in 1939, Corio made her way to Los Angeles. Between 1941 and 1944 she appeared in several Hollywood "B" motion pictures which featured her in scanty costumes (beginning with 1941 Swamp Woman), the best known of which was perhaps 1942's Jungle Siren opposite Buster Crabbe. In 1944 she made Call of the Jungle and Sarong Girl. A year earlier Corio was guest armchair detective on radio's The Adventures of Ellery Queen, on the January seventh episode entitled, "The Adventure of the Singing Rat". With the Second World War on, she became one of the volunteer pin-up girls for YANK magazine, appearing in the September 3, 1943, issue of the weekly U.S. Army publication. Corio visited the USS Yorktown, and a certified technician, Edward Hoegerman, said his favorite memory aboard the ship during the war is when she visited the radio shack. Corio appeared in "The Ghost in the Sea Blue Dress," the January 23, 1955 episode of NBC's Adventures of the Archers radio show. Corio had a long successful career dancing on stage. In 1962 she put together the nostalgic off-Broadway show This Was Burlesque[3] which she directed and in which also performed. In 1968, she wrote a book with the same title. Her fame was enduring enough that in the 1970s—when Corio was long retired and in her sixties—she twice was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

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