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| Birth Name(s) : Sally Rand |
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Sally Rand (January 2, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was born Harriet Helen Gould Beck in Hickory County, Missouri. She also performed under the name Billy Beck. She was an exotic dancer and actress.
She also conceived and developed the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors. She died in 1979 in Glendora, California, aged 75.
She performed the fan dance on film in Bolero, released in 1934. In 1936, she purchased the club that would become the Great American Music Hall. She is portrayed by actress Peggy Davis in the 1983 film, The Right Stuff, fan-dancing for the first American astronauts and other dignitaries. That episode had also been discussed in the book, wherein author Tom Wolfe referred to the astronauts observing this sixtyish woman's "ancient flanks". She and her 1933 World's Fair fan-dance were mentioned in the 1972 episode of "The Waltons" entitled "The Carnival". A fictionalized version of her also appears in Toni Dove's interactive cinema project Spectropia, played by Helen Pickett of the Wooster Group. |
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