1948
Winnie Garrett is featured in the January 1949 edition of ‘SIR!’ magazine..
It wasn’t uncommon for 40’s-era Men’s mag publishers to have their Art Departments “paint in” additional clothing to skirt prevailing obscenity laws.. Hence, the odd-looking (black) shorts and wide bands on Winnie’s bra!
Charmaine: vintage 4x10 photo. The photo has faint crop lines on it, because it was used to create a 1940 newspaper piece
Charmaine was a burlesque headliner, but in 1943 she would change her stage name to Christine Ayres and become the principal dancer for the 1943 and 1944 Ziegfeld Follies.
Roberta Jonay: Vintage 8x10 photo dated 19 June 1941 promoting her appearance in a show called “The Continental Revue”.
Peaches (Mildred Strange) - The Queen of Quiver: vintage 8x10 photo
Mildred Strange was raised in Texas, by her uncle, a methodist minister. When a teen, Mildred ran away from home and joined a traveling burlesque show. Apparently the showbusiness life-style agreed with her, because under the stage name Peaches, she became a “Minsky’s Girl” and one of the top billes burlesque dancers of her time.
Jean Carroll: vintage 8x10
Jean was born Mary Henrici in Toledo, OH in 1916. Jean and her sister JoAnn were both vaudeville and burlesque dancers, and they would often do a tandem strip-tease. JoAnn retired from burlesque in approximately 1936, but Jean continued on in burlesque until 1964.
She is not the same “Jean Carroll” that was a popular comedienne in the 50’s, even briefly having her own TV show. That Jean Carroll was born Celine Zeigman in 1911 in Paris, France.
