Sally Rand's father, William Beck, was a West Point graduate and retired US Army colonel, while her mother, Nettie Beck, was a school teacher and part-time newspaper correspondent.
21 Facts About Sally Rand
2.
Sally Rand performed in summer stock and traveling theater, including working with a then-unknown Humphrey Bogart.
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Cecil B DeMille gave her the name Sally Rand, inspired by a Rand McNally atlas.
4.
Sally Rand was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1927.
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Sally Rand was arrested four times in a single day during the fair due to perceived indecent exposure after a fan dance performance and while riding a white horse down the streets of Chicago, where the nudity was only an illusion, and again after being bodypainted by Max Factor Sr.
6.
Sally Rand conceived and developed the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors.
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Sally Rand performed the fan dance on film in Bolero, released in 1934.
8.
Sally Rand performed the bubble dance in the film Sunset Murder Case.
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Sally Rand starred in "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940.
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Sally Rand completed the trip in 1 hour and 54 minutes.
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Sally Rand signed on to star in Rain and Little Foxes whose cast included Karl Malden.
12.
Sally Rand remembered being stressed that she was unprepared and seemed to care more about her costumes, which he admitted were dazzling to the point that he forgot his lines during a performance, than learning her own lines.
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Sally Rand refused to divulge her age to reporters at the time, but was known to be approaching 50.
14.
Sally Rand's identity was correctly solved by panelist Robert Q Lewis.
15.
Sally Rand appeared on television on March 12,1957, in episode 13 of the first season of To Tell the Truth with host Bud Collyer and panelists Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, and Carl Reiner.
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Sally Rand did not "stump the panel", but was correctly identified by all four panelists.
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Sally Rand has appeared on stage doing her fan dance into the 1970s.
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Sally Rand once replaced Ann Corio in the stage show, This Was Burlesque, appeared at the Mitchell Brothers club in San Francisco in the early 1970s and toured as one of the stars of the 1972 nostalgia revue Big Show of 1928, which played major concert venues, including New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Sally Rand died on August 31,1979, at Foothill Presbyterian Hospital, in Glendora, California, aged 75, from congestive heart failure.
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Sally Rand's adopted son told an interviewer that Sammy Davis Jr.
21.
The name migrated to Canada, where a "naked bootleg" became known as a "Sally Rand" and was used to great effect by the BC Lions.